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
Tell us what your sailor does for the Navy
We'll try moving this thread here and see how it works out. If any of you want to cut and paste your stuff again, that would be great.
Views: 1237
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Concernedad on
-
My son is currently an E-3 as an electrical technician (ET), currently in Great Lakes and waiting for assignment to C school.
-
-
Permalink Reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on
-
My son leaves for BC on 10/23/12. After that he will head to Goose Creek for the nuke program.
Chris - I have heard my son talk about the STA-21 program and he was going to do some research on it. How long has your son been in the Navy?
-
-
Permalink Reply by Chris on
-
Six years. Nuke Enlisted to Nuke Officer has a very high selection rate. Last year, of 37 qualified Nukes for STA-21, 35 were accepted. The only way to get selected as fast as possible is to be a "hot runner"--be as close as possible to the top of your class in A School, Power School, and Prototype. You can only be selected for STA-21 Nuke if you are on shore duty. You can stay on shore duty for 2-2.5 years if you get picked up for SPU (Staff Pick Up) after Prototype. Without SPU, you go on deployment. STA-21 becomes possible when you go to shore duty when you come off deployment. My son did not apply for Nuke Officer, so his process was somewhat unique. He was a Nuke ET and a SPU in Ballston Spa. As a SPU (on shore with communications vs. deployed with limited communications), he had the opportunity to work hard on his package.
Applications are accepted every July 1 for the following fiscal year. My son applied his first three years before getting accepted. The process take a good deal of work that usually takes months to complete. As with most military programs, there is a place for STA-21 information. Look at the Fleet Brief powerpoint for historical selection rates. It's still hard for me to believe the Navy offers such a wonderful program. Next May, my son gets a commission and graduates with a degree debt free. Officer Candidates in STA-21 get their regular pay, BAH, benefits, etc. while in school. The tuition stipend is $10,000 plus books. Some schools (military friendly) offer scholarships that help with the balance of the tuition. A list of STA-21 schools is on the website.
-
-
Permalink Reply by JackFlash on
-
Nothing.
Well, nothing yet. -- my son has been to MEPs and is currently trying to earn a contract for Rescue Swimmer, before enlisting. He's been busy jumping through hoops to allow him to start taking the PST. (Physical Screening Test) which means he has to meet certain standards for swimming, running, push ups, sit ups and pull ups, before they will offer him a contract or consider him for training. Once he has a contract in place, they will schedule him in for Boot Camp, with training in Pensacola to follow. -
-
-
Yes. My son enlisted in 2006. He was selected for STA-21 in 2010. Officially he is an Officer Candidate that gets enlisted pay. He worked extremely hard both as a Nuke and getting into STA-21. He applied three years in a row, tweaking his package along the way, getting selected on his third time applying. I thank God the Navy provided the environment in which my son could prosper. I never served and I was afraid he'd hate me for encouraging him to enlist if the Navy didn't work out.
-
-
-
Thanks for the info Chris! I went to your group "STA-21" and read through some of the information. Wow, what a great program......I will continue to do some research and pass the info on to my son too.
-
-
Permalink Reply by DramaSoul on
-
My son is currently at Camp Pendleton awaiting the start of FMTB. He is working in the hospital there. He is an E-2 ranking up to E-3 in September. He has was in DEP for 7 months and then went to GLRTC 4 January this year. He graduated from A school at SA 2 July having been there for a month before classing up.
-
-
Permalink Reply by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on
-
Our son is a Seabee Builder Constructionman Apprentice (E-2)...and a reservist. He just got into his Unit...had to apply to one and get accepted. He is trying to find a job in this lovely economy, go back to College and will do his first AT (Annual Training - two weeks) soon.
Go Seabee's!
-
-
-
First off, this website drives me crazy! The fact that you can insert your reply into the middle of a thread makes it pretty danged tough to read everything, unless you keep going back to the beginning. I can never quite figure out if I'm supposed to be reading back to page one or the last page?
Anyway, this rate and rating thing keeps me totally befuddled as well. My son is currently an E-3, but in a few months he will be promoted to an ET3 which is equivalent to an E-4. So why isn't he an ET4? Or can't I add them together to make him an ET7? Do they frown in the Navy upon you giving yourself promotions?
-
-
-
I'm too sleepy today, but you are welcome to go for it.
-
-
-
Okay, Ill do it! I like Lady Hamiltons title so I am going to use it.
-
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
