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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

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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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Destroyer Moms (DDG)

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Moms of Sailors serving on a destroyer

Members: 394
Latest Activity: Aug 1, 2021

Description and List of all Destroyers in the Navy

Destroyers - DDG Crew: 278 (24 officers)

Ships:

USS ARLEIGH BURKE (DDG 51), Norfolk, VA click here
USS BARRY (DDG 52), Norfolk, VA click here
USS JOHN PAUL JONES (DDG 53), San Diego, CA
USS CURTIS WILBUR (DDG 54), Yokosuka, Japan click here
USS STOUT (DDG 55), Norfolk, VA
USS JOHN S. McCAIN (DDG 56), Yokosuka, Japan
USS MITSCHER (DDG 57), Norfolk, VA
USS LABOON (DDG 58), Norfolk, VA
USS RUSSELL (DDG 59), Pearl Harbor, HI

USS PAUL HAMILTON (DDG 60), San Diego, CA
USS RAMAGE (DDG 61), Norfolk, VA click here
USS FITZGERALD (DDG 62), Yokosuka, Japan
USS STETHEM (DDG 63), Yokosuka, Japan click here
USS CARNEY (DDG 64), Mayport, FL
USS BENFOLD (DDG 65), San Diego, CA
USS GONZALEZ (DDG 66), Norfolk, VA
USS COLE (DDG 67), Norfolk, VA cllick here
USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG 68), Mayport, FL
USS MILIUS (DDG 69), San Diego, CA

USS HOPPER (DDG 70), Pearl Harbor, HI
USS ROSS (DDG 71), Norfolk, VA
USS MAHAN (DDG 72), Norfolk, VA
USS DECATUR (DDG 73), San Diego, CA
USS McFAUL (DDG 74), Norfolk, VA
USS DONALD COOK (DDG 75), Norfolk, VA
USS HIGGINS (DDG 76), San Diego, CA
USS O'KANE (DDG 77), Pearl Harbor, HI
USS PORTER (DDG 78), Norfolk, VA
USS OSCAR AUSTIN (DDG 79), Norfolk, VA

USS ROOSEVELT (DDG 80), Mayport, FL click here
USS WINSTON S. CHURCHILL (DDG 81), Norfolk, VA
USS LASSEN (DDG 82), Yokosuka, Japan
USS HOWARD (DDG 83), San Diego, CA
USS BULKELEY (DDG 84), Norfolk, VA
USS McCAMPBELL (DDG 85), San Diego, CA
USS SHOUP (DDG 86), Everett, WA
USS MASON (DDG 87), Norfolk, VA
USS PREBLE (DDG 88), San Diego, CA
USS MUSTIN (DDG 89), Yokosuka, Japan

USS CHAFEE (DDG 90), Pearl Harbor, HI
USS PINCKNEY (DDG 91), San Diego, CA
USS MOMSEN (DDG 92), San Diego, CA
USS CHUNG-HOON (DDG 93), Pearl Harbor, HI click here
USS NITZE (DDG 94), Norfolk, VA
USS JAMES E. WILLIAMS (DDG 95), Norfolk, VA
USS BAINBRIDGE (DDG 96), Norfolk, VA
USS HALSEY (DDG 97), San Diego, CA
USS FORREST SHERMAN (DDG 98), Norfolk, VA click here
USS FARRAGUT (DDG 99), Mayport, FL

USS KIDD (DDG 100), San Diego, CA
USS GRIDLEY (DDG 101), San Diego, CA
USS SAMPSON (DDG 102), San Diego, CA
USS TRUXTUN (DDG 103), Norfolk, VA
USS STERETT (DDG 104), San Diego, CA
USS DEWEY (DDG 105), San Diego, CA
USS STOCKDALE (DDG 106), San Diego, CA
USS GRAVELY (DDG 107)
USS WAYNE E. MEYER (DDG 108)
USS JASON DUNHAM (DDG 109)
USS WILLIAM P. LAWRENCE (DDG 110)
USS SPRUANCE (DDG 111)

USS ZUMWALT (DDG 1000), San Diego, CA click here

OPSEC Points:
Don’t discuss current or future destinations/ ports of call/deployment bases.
Don’t discuss current or future operations or missions.
Don’t discuss current or future dates and times of exercises or missions.
Don’t discuss readiness issues and numbers.
Don’t discuss specific training equipment.
Don’t discuss people’s names and operations.
Don’t speculate about current or future operations.

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Comment by spensmom on April 13, 2010 at 10:29pm: Kathie-Illinois, I don't know how to respond to those messages sent to the group so I'll try this way. You may be spelling the name of your son's ship wrong.....It looks like it is the USS Bulkeley instead of Buckley. If you click on "Groups" and put that name in the search box the group will come up. Good luck!

Comment by MissMySailor on April 12, 2010 at 8:57pm: Oh Marlo he is a handsome little guy! Congratulations!!!!

Comment by KatK on April 11, 2010 at 8:16pm: Congratulations to your son and your family! It sounds like it was a wonderful evening.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on April 7, 2010 at 11:10pm: I am sorry I have not seen his mother's address published anywheres, I wonder if you sent it to her attention on the Ike if they will forward the mail? Or you could go to the Ike group and ask there.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on April 7, 2010 at 5:57pm: Fair winds and following seas for the crew of the USS Chafee and a big hug to all of their families as they start a new deployment...

By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (AW) Eric J. Cutright, Navy Public Affairs Support Element West, Det. Hawaii

PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (NNS) -- The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) departed Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam April 5 for a scheduled six-month deployment.

Chafee returned from its last deployment Aug. 24, 2009, and has been diligently maintaining its battle-readiness according to Cmdr. Heedong Choi, Chafee's commanding officer.

"Ever since returning from our last deployment, the crew of Chafee has continuously been training and maintaining the ship. The officers and crew have worked incredibly hard to keep-up our certifications and combat readiness in order to deploy again," said Choi.

The ship and its crew of more than 300 Sailors are expected to operate primarily in the 7th Fleet's Area of Responsibility (AOR), which is the largest in the Navy, spanning more than 48-million square miles of the Pacific and Indian oceans.

"As with all deploying ships in our Navy, the overarching mission is to provide presence in the 'global commons' and to execute the maritime strategy as outlined by the CNO, MCPON, and the commandant of the Coast Guard," said Choi.

Currently, Chafee has not been scheduled to join with any other strike group in the 7th Fleet AOR, but Choi explains that the ship and crew are prepared for any future joint effort.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on April 7, 2010 at 3:50pm: Congratulations to our sailors on the USS Carney and the USS McFaul - they have captured some pirates!!!

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=52459

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on April 5, 2010 at 2:46pm: Sadly just a few hours of that water would put a sailor at great risk of recovery. There is an article on the main page of N4M about the search being called off.

Comment by Dianne on April 4, 2010 at 1:40pm: Karla, there have been many times that my son has not known of other things that have happened in the Navy until I tell him.

I hope you all have a wonder Easter.