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:
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
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.)
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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
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Peace Corps - Automatic Disqualifier for CT, IS, IT
Q: Why does Peace Corps Service disqualify you from certain military jobs?
(ie CT, IT, IS)
A. To avoid even the APPEARANCE of impropriety. The Peace Corps doesn't want host countries to think their volunteers are a cover job for spies, nor that the Corps is a training ground for spies. The CIA and Defense Department have agreed to the restriction.
There is an old Chinese saying - "If you are walking through your neighbor's melon patch, don't stoop down to tie your shoes." It means that even if your heart is pure, don't do something suspicious.
Most host country nationals have a hard enough time wondering why someone would leave the land of fast cars, blondes in red swim suits and easy living to teach Biology in an upriver secondary school. (An appalling number of Host Country Nationals (HCNs) get their information about the USA from TV shows; "Bay Watch" is still a big hit overseas.)
If people went into the CIA or Army intelligence from the Peace Corps, it would look like the Peace Corps was training spies. If people went into the Peace Corps from the CIA, it would look like they were using it as a cover job. So, you can't be a Peace Corps volunteer if you have ever worked for the CIA. You can't go directly into the CIA after the Peace Corps, either. The restrictions on military specialties deemed "intelligence gathering" are a little less strict, but there are restrictions. There has to be time lag between one and the other. The last time I checked it was 10 years.
Along those lines, if you hunt in the USA, you can't take guns with you, even if you go to Kenya and the greater kudus make pests of themselves. If you are a ham radio operator in the USA, you can't take your radio with you either. Again, avoiding the appearance of impropriety
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