This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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.
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:
**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.
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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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.
Circumstances falling in this category include critical injury or illness, birth, and death. The Red Cross requires two types of information to send Special Messages:
1) Service member Identification – Use the Red Cross Notification form to keep this information at hand. It includes the sailor’s complete identifying information such as name, Social Security Number, the unit, ship or boat, etc.
2) Situation Information – Use the Special Messages forms link (or found below) to have this information when you contact the Red Cross. It includes the facts of a situation, so the Red Cross can verify the emergency and a complete picture can be conveyed to the sailor.
Even though it may go against what our emotions will be telling us to do, DON'T TRY TO SEND EMERGENCY NEWS DIRECTLY TO A SUBMARINER. All messages are reviewed for just this kind of content. Any information which is considered upsetting or harmful will not be given to the sailor. The command will wait until official notification comes from the Red Cross and then use protocols for handling it.
On a sub, it's easier for one person to jeopardize the entire crew, so keeping morale safe is paramount. Email privileges can be taken from an entire boat because one relative abuses them. Please handle things through the proper channels.
Granting of Emergency Leave depends on the recommendation of the Red Cross, the current operational commitment of the ship, and the availability of adequate transportation. The key point to identify to the Red Cross is why the serviceman’s presence is needed. Commands can take no action on Emergency Leave without a Red Cross report of a situation.
Special Messages are normally sent only when the situation involves a member of the immediate family of the sailor or sailor’s spouse. These are defined in the Naval Military Personnel Manual as father, mother, person standing in loco parentis (i.e. person who raised the sailor), spouse, children, brother, sister, or only living relative.
Situation Information Forms
The following information is generally required for Special Messages pertaining to births, deaths, and serious illness/injury:
BIRTH
Who is calling: ____________________Relation: _____________Phone number: ___________
To whom is message being sent: __________________________________________________
Service member attached to: full name of boat & crew color
Wife’s name: ___________________________________________________________________
Baby’s Name: ____________________ Baby’s Sex: M / F Baby’s Weight: ____lbs. ___ oz.
Baby’s Length: ______________ Hair Color: _________ Eye Color: ___________
Time of Birth: _________ Date of Birth: _____________ Place of Birth: _________________
Hospital Phone Number: _________________ Information Verified With: _________________
Condition of Baby (Good, unless medical complications):_______________________________
Condition of Mother (Good, unless medical complications): _____________________________
Who is calling: ____________________Relation: _____________Phone number: ___________
To whom is message being sent: __________________________________________________
Service member attached to: full name of boat & crew color
Name of deceased: _________________________________________________ Age: ______
Relationship of deceased to service member: ________________________________________
Place of death (city/state):________________________________________________________
Hospital taken to: __________________________ Hospital phone number: _______________
Date/Time of death: ________________________ Cause of death: ______________________
Date of funeral: ______________ Funeral Home: _________________ Phone: ___________
Burial to take place at: ______________________________ Date of burial: _______________
Immediate family in area (support available): _________________________________________
Relationship: __________________________________________________________________
Who is calling: ____________________Relation: _____________Phone number: ___________
To whom is message being sent: __________________________________________________
Service member attached to: full name of boat & crew color
Name of patient: ___________________________________________________ Age: ______
Relationship of patient to service member: __________________________________________
Has the patient or the patient’s next of kin authorized release of info to the member: yes / no
Place of illness (location of hospital or other): _________________ Phone number: _________
Name of doctor: _________________________ Phone number: _________________________
Condition: ______________________________ Prognosis: ____________________________
Hospital admission time and date: _________________________________________________
Expected length of hospitalization: ________________________________________________
If this message concerns a service member’s wife, indicate who is caring for children, if any.
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