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
March 2013
My son leaves for bc on March 26, 2013. His rating is ND. Seems so far away but coming up so quick!!
Views: 248
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by corvairgal on
-
Mine leaves on the 20th. I have had about 5 months to prepare, not sure I have done a good job.
-
-
Permalink Reply by tamuk23 on
-
My brother leaves March 26th also.His rating is AD, time had been flying by...
-
-
Permalink Reply by Cate88 on
-
Hi All, my son leaves March 6. His rating is AD. I've been trying to prepare all of us best way we can. Yes, these last few months have gone by so fast. Seems like everyone wants a piece of him before he ships out, can't blame them. Good Luck to your loved ones and yourselves as time together winds down. However, it is a temporary parting. :)
~Cate
-
-
Permalink Reply by ProudMama-S09-DIV186 on
-
Hello NavyMomx2, my son leaves from New Orleans to Bootcamp the day after, on Mar"ch 14th. And he is also going to "A" school in Pensacola however his job is "I.S." We are unsure as to when he will attend "A" school however his recruiter basically told him it would be immediately after BC. Your the first Mom with the BC date so close, then the same 'A' school. Pensacola used to be only an hour away from us however now it's 4 hrs away from us. I'm so new to all of this, I'm very proud but also scared of the unknown, i'd be a basket case if it wasn't for N4M.. All the amazing moms have been so helpful and there is so much I'm learning which is helping. I wish you, family and your son all the best. Who knows, sounds like they will be at BC together and team-mates which just hearing your story will help me sleep better tonight. All the Best!!!
-
-
-
That would be awesome if they could find ea other and become friends since they're both southern boys, lol. My son is 20 yrs old, he'll be 21 in Nov. Thanks so much for the help, I've needed it since this is all so new to us. We now live in Baton Rouge, La. I'll check out the FB page since I have one and want to learn as much as possible before he leaves. I watched the bootcamp video and am going to get my son to watch it even though he said he'd watched a couple at the recruiters office at meetings. But when I described the video on N4M he said he didn't get as much detail, like "how to shave properly", etc... I can't tell you what a relief ya'll have been. He's a 4th generation Sailor but unfortunately they are all passed now, even my Dad who recently passed of cancer so this is a little scary for both of us. This site and all of you amazing women have been an true godsend. Jacob is right at 6 ft tall, he's slender built but wide through the shoulders and weighs about 170. He's dark haired, brown eyes and a little on the quiet side at first, then he opens up and is always the first to try to help someone. I really hop they can meet up and become friends, that would be Great!! Best of Luck to ya'll and thanks again for your help.
-
-
-
Thanks so much for the info again. They seem to have a little in common, my husband, Jacobs Dad is from Maine and very opinionated, unfortunately even though Jacob is quiet, he is also very opinionated like my husband and I have also warned him about keeping his opinions to himself. Unfortunately, we haven't had alot of time to get used to the idea, eveything happened very fast so he isn't as conditioned physically as he'd like to be. He's very fit but and loves to run but realized at PT that the mile and 1/2 is alot harder when yelling the "creed" the whole time, the yelling takes alot of energy and he hasn't made it to the end yet. He said he's been close, alot of others in PT have fallen out before a mile, but he's a bit worried about falling out in BC, especially with the weather difference. Jacob leaves in 2 days. Thanks for the FB site and for all of your advise. You've been a wonderful help to me.
-
-
-
My son also leaves on the 26th. He has been waiting for several months and now the time is speeding away.
-
-
Permalink Reply by Tallblueks(ship02div928) on
-
Dear My3rdchild, my son leave on the 26th from Kansas City. He is excited to go. Not so sure I am. We've been reading up on all the info on this site, GREAT info. So glad I found it. He will go to "A" School in Pensacola for Aircraft Structural Mechanic. Where are you? and what A school will your child be going to?
-
-
-
We are from Cincinnati, Ohio. He will be going to the culinary school at Great Lakes.
Everyone seems to know so much... My son is very tight lipped about what he has learned already. The military life is very foreign to me, as I have no relatives or friends who have been in the military. I don't know any of the jargon and there is so much out there to read that I don't know what is useful or important.
-
-
Permalink Reply by Joelle415 (Ship 14 Div 175) on
-
My son left March 11. It's been days of tears and worries!
-
-
Permalink Reply by b26kid19(13/196) on
-
My son leaves for bc on the 26th also. He will be going to San Antonio for corpsman school after. We are from NJ,but he will be leaving from MEPS in Brooklyn,NY
-
-
-
My older daughter, her husband and my son took their brother, the new sailor, on a "sibs only" mini vacation. They return tonight and I can't wait to spend some time with him these last few days before he leaves for bc
-
© 2025 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
