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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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.

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Duty Station NAS Oceana, VA Beach VA

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This group is for families who are stationed in Oceana or family members of sailors stationed at NAS Oceana.

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Comment by CeeCee on July 26, 2011 at 11:15pm: sjtina.....he should have an address on base....ask him, if he doesn't know, have him find out.....I mailed stuff to my son when he was on base!!!

Comment by sjtina on July 26, 2011 at 10:37pm: Has anyone mailed anything to their son on base. My son's birthday is friday and he doesnt even know where I can send a card.

Comment by sjtina on July 26, 2011 at 10:35pm: lol Cindy I just got off the phone with my son and we had to stop talking about every 5 minutes. He doesnt even have to say jets any more, I can hear them coming

Comment by Kimberly Joy on July 25, 2011 at 7:04am: Thanks for the advice ladies. Gosh, I hope he sticks with the car first and holds off on the girlfriend thing for a while. I was reading further back some of the posts about where to get a car. They have something called a "lemon lot" which usually is not a word you want to associate with a car but then people were saying you can get some really good cars there. That cracked me up. Maybe they have a "Lemon Club" where they can acquire girlfriends? Just kidding. I really need to talk to my son when he gets home. LOL

Comment by sjtina on July 24, 2011 at 11:23pm: My son said to me when he got there, I guess I have to get a car, girlfriend and place to stay off base. I thought the girlfriend part was funny. I told him I am pretty sure the girlfriends and wives followed them there. They didnt just go get one.

Comment by CeeCee on July 24, 2011 at 11:05pm: not sure, I thought about that too but my son says Verizon works good on base! He no longer lives on base.......or should I say, when he gets home from deployment, he won't be on base.............

Comment by sjtina on July 24, 2011 at 10:40pm: haha . we have sprint and he has to go outside his room to talk. Doesnt seem any of them work. Do you think because its a base that the signals are blocked. just wondering. I havent heard from him in awhile. Hope he is settling in ok.

Comment by CeeCee on July 24, 2011 at 8:12pm: that's the same with AT&T.....my son would have to go outside to get a signal

Comment by CeeCee on July 24, 2011 at 8:04pm: When my son went to Oceana last July, we had AT&T (still do) BUT from my experience when we went there and also my son, AT&T is not good on base. My son said that when our current AT&T plan is up next February, he will be changing to Verizon. However, I recently heard that Verizon no longer offers an unlimited "data" plan. But he says that Verizon is the best on base! Hope this helps!

Comment by Kimberly Joy on July 24, 2011 at 7:29pm: I was wondering if someone would have the answer to this. My son will be coming home from his A school this week and then leaving and going to NAS Oceana 2 weeks later. We would like to know what cell phone carrier gets the best reception in the area. We would like to start with a pre-paid or pay as you go to start with until he is a little more established and until he can get a vehicle and see what those payments are going to be first. He doesn't want to get in over his head. Any help offered would be appreciated. Thank you!