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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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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

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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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OPSEC/PERSEC

Good Morning All - I am one of the admins for the N4M site and it has been brought to my attention by numerous members that we are having some issues with adhering to OPSEC/PERSEC. Please remember that this is an OPEN sight and ANYONE can see and read what you post. It is important that you are very careful in what you put out there as you could be putting your sailor and every sailor on his/her ship in jeopardy. There have been situations where homecomings have been delayed due to someone posting info about a ship returning. There have even been more serious consequences to someone posting information that they thought was just being "informative".

If in doubt - DON'T POST IT.

THIS IS NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY.

REMEMBER - LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS

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."

Also, be sure to read this:

OPSEC AND PERSEC

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, feel free to reach out to me.

STAY SAFE!

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Permalink Reply by Chipmunk on October 1, 2020 at 11:41am

In an effort to search and look for an image of PERSEC that I really liked - it showed a car full of bumper stickers and what displaying those could tell someone about you and your life - I found some more information that share examples of what PERSEC should mean in our life. I realize some of these are directed toward the Marines but they were for parents so I am including them.

Learning about OPSEC & PERSEC is an ongoing process in my opinion. I know more now than I did when my son first went to BC over three years ago, and I am still learning, especially now that he is in the fleet. A lot of this information seems to be directed mostly to spouses (primarily wives) and so it is easy for us to want to ignore as not pertaining to us. (Which is why I included the Marine Parent links.) But when our sailor is single and we are still primary resident, when we are maybe single ourselves, what we post or share publicly and even what we think is private, can be a risk for not only our sailor but also for ourselves.

I was also trying to find more information regarding posting on social media.

https://www.marineparents.com/2a.asp - social media information.

https://marineparents.com/deployment/persec.asp

https://marineparents.com/8-fbpm.asp

https://jomygosh.com/2020/01/9-surprising-ways-you-might-be-violati...

https://themilitarywifeandmom.com/opsec-for-military-spouses/ - still good info for us!