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Navy For Moms

This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Advice for new spouses

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Hello, everyone my name is Amanda. Thank you for joining this group! I have recently went through the whole process of becoming a PROUD NAVY WIFE. I am starting this group to help all the new spouses on your journey. Ask me anything!!!!

Members: 148
Latest Activity: Mar 2, 2019

This is especially for wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, or fiances.

Everyone has a different experience throughout this whole process. My husband started signing up in July of 2010 and did not leave for bootcamp until March 29th 2011, so we have pretty much been through a lot this last year and I would love to help everyone that I can understand things that I did not when we first started. He is now in the middle of A-school and I guess so are we. It has not always been fun, but it is worth it in the end. I say this is especially for spouses becuase pay, and things like that are different for us, but mom, dads and anyone else is more than welcome to join. I look forward to hearing from everyone, and hope that I can help you along the way. This page is for newly married about to get married, or just being a new Navy spouse in general. My husband and I have been together 6 years and married over 2 years now. We have a 3 year old son. Watching the children go through this is very difficult because they do not fully understand what is going on. I am here to help!!!! I have lots of ideas and experiences to share!!!!

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Comment by Kac46047 on January 27, 2012 at 2:50pm: ah the opsec nazis lol! in ways im so glad my husbands command is so small, hes deploying soon on a navy contracted ship with civilians go figure lol so i kinda wish there was more people to connect with but, its whatever gotta go with the flow , Hope deployment is going well for you over there in cali! VA is awesome except every mil spouse and their mom is trying to get jobs here and of course the economy stinks. lol thats my rant for the day

Comment by skell456 (AO wife) on January 27, 2012 at 3:53am: Oh mind you they are deployed right now and no where near Hawaii...they won't be back for a long time either so no one was put in danger its just too funny LOL

Comment by skell456 (AO wife) on January 27, 2012 at 3:52am: Omg!! I haven't been on here in forever and I was a member of the Carl Vinson page since that is my hubbys ship....well I simply asked where the port was in Hawaii and got kicked off for breaking opsec.....really ladies pull ur panties out off ur cracks...how stupid I love how the moms know it all and we know nothing I'm pretty sure that they tell more on the Vinson Facebook page and on the news then all of combined could say...too funny Lmao!!!

Comment by abuon18 on January 17, 2012 at 12:18am: Hey ladies... Does anyone know where I can find the doctors in my area that accept Tricare? Thanks :)

Comment by skell456 (AO wife) on January 16, 2012 at 11:44pm: Hey everyone...its been so Long...its so weird some of you girls will be in Cali with me where are you guys stationed??? We are on coranado....don't worry about base housing there is too much housing out there most have no waiting...get ahold of Lincoln military housing...

Comment by ATI wife on January 9, 2012 at 3:45pm: Hi everyone .. Well we got our hard orders to go to Cali for 2 years.. There are several questions I have.. Right now I'm currently living in san antonio, tx and my hubby is in florida.. How would we find out if there is a waiting list to get on base living? Can I call or does he have to? Will they let him come to me and us drive there? Will the navy pay to move a car if we go by plane? Please help .. I'm so lost

Comment by Noemi(Ship 12, DIV 054)Colin<3 on December 27, 2011 at 11:08pm: yeah its so true it is hard. Thanks for the advice, Im sure going to wait know. Its hard planning with out him here.

Comment by abuon18 on December 27, 2011 at 10:57pm: Well the best advice I can give you is try not to worry about it until he's out of boot camp! It's too hard to try to plan it when all you have are letters to communicate through.