This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Latest Activity
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
N4M Merchandise
Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Badge
Bahrain Moms
Information
If you have a son or daughter in Bahrain or going to Bahrain heres the group for you!!!!!!
Members: 402
Latest Activity: Feb 26, 2024
I have many moms asking me, hows life in Bahrain? So I thought I would put a few things together, post it and update, make corrections as I remember something. Well aside from the very hot sun, nice beaches,museums,malls on and off base,the sand storms , which reak havoc on the weapons some carry :). Here are a few thing that might help.
New Arrivals
1. 2 or 3 weeks of training and classes to learn Bahrain customs,laws and the Navys do's & don't's
2. Not allowed off base til the training is complete.
3. No family housing. Non military persons were removed after 9/11. ("09" spouses allowed back )
4. Lower rank personal(I'll check the rank) must live on base in barricks. Others live off base in rental units.
Duty
1. Shifts are 12 hours long.
2. No uniforms are to be worn off base at any time only civ's (civilian cloths)
3. Unlike the States, there week is Sunday - Thursday weekend is Friday and Saturday.
Misc.
1.They buy cell phones on base at the mall or Nex. They can call you for about 10 cents and send texts for 10 cent per text. (Tho in Bahrain they go by BD'S Bahrain Dollars).
NOTE: They CAN NOT text to some cell phone services. The ones I know are Nextel,Verizon and Sprint.
2. Everything they need can be bought on base at the mall or Nex. Even computers,tv's, music,movies .....everything......
3. Drinking: 18 is the legal drinking age in Bahrain on and off base.This goes for the military personal also with one Navy rule in order to buy/drink liquor or whiskey you must be 21, but at 18 they can consume/purchase beer and wine.
1. They have a on base post office. Which is closed I belive on Monday's.
2. On packages/letters you send DO NOT write Bahrain,middle east or Manama anywhere on the outside of the mail. This may make it arrive to the town P.O.(Manama) instead of onbase. The military ships its own mail but if it does not arrive to the state side base to be shipped to your sailor than its put on a internatial mail flight and sent to the town P.O. Your sailor will have a p.o. box with a FPO address on base only use the address he/she gives you and your return address. It will look something like this.
*Rank Name*
PSC ??? Box ???
FPO AE 09840-2800
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/home.asp
http://www.bahraintribune.com/index.asp
https://www.cnic.navy.mil/bahrain/index.htm (This one is the base news)
Sailors on a Liberty Tour
Discussion Forum
re:Son going to Bahrain - I have so many questions!!!!
Started by julie(Shane's Mom). Last reply by DiG Jul 13, 2018. 15 Replies 1 Like
Our son has moved on ...
Started by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke. Last reply by navymomds Dec 16, 2016. 1 Reply 1 Like
RSS
Comment Wall
Comment
-
Comment by Concernedad on August 16, 2013 at 11:14am
-
Finally heard from my son this morning. Feeling a tad less concerned today.
-
Comment by aileen3mc on August 16, 2013 at 9:13am
-
Can anyone tell me how fast they get mail/packages? What food ships well and what tricks people have used to ship things like cookies, or frozen food? (if you can ship that)
-
Comment by chriscwick on August 15, 2013 at 1:28pm
-
Chris lived about 20 minutes away from the base. He mentioned that they are well informed & prepared regarding the locals, the demonstrations, the where, when & how's of it all. Jen said that the females are especially cautious & even if it's not politically correct the girls & guys are very protective & aware of security for each other. Like MAs say, "One is none, two is one!"
-
-
Lady, the message says this video is not available in this country, however, I believe I have watched it before.
Just concerns me a bit for those sailors living off base, which includes my own sailor.
-
Comment by paces on August 15, 2013 at 5:51am
-
chriscwick...We call it the "DRAMA LLAMA"... It is always prevalent in education. I really don't understand it myself. I would have done the same if I were in your shoes. Too much stress these days to deal with that kind of situation. I am in my 25th year this year. I just pray I can make it 5 more. It is getting so much more difficult to do your job these days. Too much red tape and paperwork from the top to be able to focus on the children. We have been furloughed again this year and they cut our number of days to 161 with time added each day to make up the difference. Odd..They cut our pay, require more hours and demand more dedication. Something seems amiss with that picture. Oh well, all goes with the territory I guess. I try to stay in my room and keep my head low and many prayers through the course of the day. Hope you have something come your way soon. Susan
-
-
ConcernedDad > unrest is ongoing for...ever. Doesn't make it any easier on the parents though. "Secret squirrel" said many of the protesters are fairly inept. Several have set themselves on fire with their own Molotov cocktails. To his knowledge no Americans have been targeted. Worst that happened to him was being collateral damage being downwind from the Bahraini Security Forces tear gas use. Course, being MA he's been OC Sprayed several times, so tear gas was a giggle.
Paces - school starts here on the 26th for the kids. I just declined a job for the first 12 weeks. The teacher has known since last June that she was moving from K to 2. She's been peeved at administration & hasn't done any concrete lesson plans. She only plans to do rudimentary plans for the time she's on paid leave after that the sub would be adrift. She also didn't expect to do Progress or Report Cards. Wondered how she'd do student grouping. When I said I expected to be in contact with her along the way & would provide testing info to group. She didn't plan on any contact between us! I asked her how she would have continuity upon her return...there was dead silence. After that I declined her offer noting that the circumstances & parameters of the job made me very uncomfortable. Course, I CYA'd my butt with the Grade Level & Principal. Drama!
-
-
-
What the heck is going on with all the civil unrest in Bahrain?
-
-
Lady Hamilton...I know you are on pins and needles to see her. I know I am with J. I get more anxious by the day. I know he will only be with us for a little while, but it will be great.
Chriscwick...Sounds like everything is going well. There is no companion like a dedicated dog to comfort you when others are not close and sometimes when they are I know what you mean about college. Ours did not finish. He has 2 semesters to finish when he gets back. The Navy did not want him to finish because he could not enter the Spec Ops program as an officer. They wanted him to earn that through the ranks. Best laid plans of mice and men, right?
He shouldn't have any trouble finishing though when he gets back to the states, whenever that will be.
Well, I go back to school today. Time to go sit in meetings all day and listen to protocols for the year. Students come back on Monday. Teaching Writing this year to 90 students. I will be blind by Christmas. Have a great day everyone.
-
-
We are, certainly, a proud & few bunch. College. Yeah, hurt me - hurt me! Wish.
He's already found a studio apartment & began moving in the same day! No moss on this little rolling stone!
Ms. Argo & he have apparently come to a mind-meld. I saw it in progress in a pic Jen shared. Ms. Argo was panting comfortably, ears at rest, leaning heavily onto Chris's boot. I could see she was comfy cuz her lead was dangling loose & that tongue, that would make Gene Simmons jealous, was lolling completely unfurled. She looked totally besotted. Guess he is with her, too. Jen texted that he really likes her a lot. Now that's peeing on territory if ever I heard it! He is still crazy nervous about fitting into the pack & doing well. It's all up to he & his "B____h". At least, for now, they've got each other! Oh! and he's freezing to death! Glad I talked him into taking his bomber jacket & trench coat with him. He'll have his Pea coat otherwise & his long sleeve blue diggies for duty.
© 2025 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
You need to be a member of Bahrain Moms to add comments!