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
Chicago Mom's
Information
Location: Tinley Park
Members: 68
Latest Activity: Jul 27, 2022
Discussion Forum
Any Meet and Greet For Navy Moms In the Chicago area?
Started by Amorresperroz. Last reply by Amorresperroz Jul 25, 2016. 2 Replies 0 Likes
mailing our sailors a box...
Started by Theresa. Last reply by Pat L. in IL Aug 9, 2013. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Comment Wall
Comment
-
Comment by Pat L. in IL on December 30, 2013 at 9:22pm
-
Hi Moms, I have another fun thing to do! "Sarge" has a Meet & Greet every Thursday for the families of the recruits who will PIR on Fridays. It is at Sundance Saloon, 300 Lakehurst, Waukegan, from 5:30PM to 9PM. On January 9, he will showcase Molly's Adopt A Sailor!!! This is a really fun event and anyone who wants to come support Molly's will be welcomed with open arms!!!
-
Comment by sandi8 on December 29, 2013 at 9:57pm
-
Just sent my sailor back to California with new socks and underwear and a container of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. Miss him already. Sigh...
For those of you who did not get to see your sailors for Christmas I hope you at least had phone calls and that visits are in the near future for you.
Happy New Year to all our Navy families!
-
Comment by karlamissingmybabyboy on December 25, 2013 at 8:43pm
-
From the bottom of my heart I will like to thank all the volunteers at VFW for all of your hard work my recruit was part of the Christmas day celebration thank you so much Merry Christmas and God Bless ♥♥
-
-
Reminder Mamas! Antioch VFW (75 North Ave, Antioch) needs volunteers to help feed 300 A-school sailors and 25 Veterans on Saturday from 4-8PM.
I hope you saw what a GREAT time we had on Thanksgiving......this should be a great time, too!!!!!
-
Comment by SusanG in IL on November 19, 2013 at 7:47pm
-
I'll be going to her house on Thursday, when I can count how many afghans there actually are. Wouldn't it cause problems if not everyone were able to get one? Depending on how many there are, I'm willing to donate a few, but I also want to sell some of them so I can add to the funds in the estate account.
-
-
Susan, Probably it wouldn't be a good idea to send the afghans to the deployed kids. BUT there are several women from the VFW who go to Hines VA hospital every week. Maybe that would be a good place for the afghans to go??? What do you think??
-
-
When my mom died she left quite a few crocheted afghans that she'd made herself. Would something like this be good to send to deployed personnel?
-
-
Thank you,Pat. I've never done this before. My family made other plans (without telling me) I went with you to a few Molly's packing parties a few years ago, then I started working, which left me no time for Molly's. My mom died last August & I've just kind of been drifting along since.I remember how good I felt when I helped at the packing parties & I want that feeling again.
-
-
Susan, You just have to show up on Thanksgiving Day and tell them you want to volunteer. The buses arrive around 9AM and that is a really fun thing to witness.
-
-
Hi Pat, thanks for the quick response! Do you know how I would go about volunteering for the Villa Park VFW Thanksgiving dinner? Would I just contact the VFW & let them know that I'm interested in helping out in some way? Antioch is too far of a drive for me. I don't like driving at night in unfamiliar areas because I have difficulty seeing at night.
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
You need to be a member of Chicago Mom's to add comments!