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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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A place were we family members with Sailors on amphibious boats can come and talk ask questions and just hang out.. so anyone out there with a loved one on a amphibious jump on in lets share stories..
Members: 151
Latest Activity: Jul 6, 2023
Discussion Forum
How to Communicate with a Sailor on Ship Deployment
Started by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom. Last reply by 10mileloop Jun 18, 2017. 17 Replies 0 Likes
Tiger Cruise
Started by Margaret_ProudTexasMomof2Sailors. Last reply by hope4answers Dec 27, 2016. 23 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by hope4answers on August 31, 2016 at 10:51am
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Got anything on the USS Somerset? Sailor to be going out there mid-September. LONG way from Alabama. Being undesignated, not sure what he will be doing, He & Mama are a little anxious about that.
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Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on June 26, 2016 at 3:56am
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USS Wasp (LHD-1) gets underway on its first major deployment in over a decade. "The 27-year old gator, which last deployed in 2004, got underway Saturday morning as part of a 4,000-strong Amphibious Ready Group that includes dock landing ship Whidbey Island and amphibious transport dock San Antonio. The trio will carry the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on a planned six-month pump to 5th Fleet, where ARG commanders fully expect to tangle with ISIS." Marine Corps Times: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2016/06/25/wasp-depl...
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Hi all! Just a note - if your ship doesn't have a very active page right now (things tend to be more quiet when ships aren't deployed), check out the page for its homeport instead. The Norfolk group, for example, is always active. Here's the link: http://navyformoms.com/group/norfolksailorsfamilyfriends
Also, I just watched this again and it's so cool. It's a three-minute, time lapse video of a day in the life onboard USS Kearsarge (LHD 3). Enjoy! :)
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Cheryl, Thank you for the information. I want to say Thank you to you, your son, and family for his sacrifice defending our great country. As a new Navy Mom, I'm learning how to be Navy Patience and Navy Flexible, both of which I am not good at.
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Comment by Cheryl on March 9, 2016 at 10:56pm
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1ProudMomofNavySon welcome to the Navy. My son has been in going on 8 years. If he is stationed on the West Coast and not deployed and you go to the post office and those priority boxes he should get it in about 3 to 4 days. Best wishes to you and your family and to your son.
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I went to the USS Wasp sight but it doesn't look like anyone's been on there in quite a while. He just graduated BC in January. All this is so new. I want to send him an Easter Care pkg, I'm not sure how far in advance I need to mail it so he gets it in time. Anyone know the Navy Mail Time Frame?
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He's on the USS Wasp, on the East Coast. He just left P'cola on Thurs. arrived in Norfolk then went out to sea Sat. morning.
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Does anyone still comment on this page? I am a new Navy Mom with a son on the USS Wasp. I have several questions and fears. I hope someone can help alleviate some of them.
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Comment by Joe&NatesMom on October 12, 2015 at 4:34pm
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Haha...know the feeling! My son got married and bought a house! Grow up fast in the Navy! I thought maybe you'd heard something that I hadn't. ..have a wonderful evening!
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Joe&NatesMom - I haven't heard anything about deployment. They will need to go on a bunch of underways to make sure they didn't connect the elbow bone to the jaw bone or fill the bilge with rocket fuel or something. Then again, my kid has a girlfriend now and is not entirely at my disposal like he used to be!
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