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Navy For Moms

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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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

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

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

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
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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.)

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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

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A place to come to for Navy Moms & Family Members who find themselves with an emptynest. A place to share our thoughts..comfort each other and give advice.

Members: 583
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EMPTYNESTERS

Please, if you no longer want to be a part of N4M's consider NOT deleting your profile as everything you have ever posted will disappear when you delete it . You can leave a group but don't permanently delete your profile!

A place to come to for Navy Moms & Family Members who find themselves with an emptynest. A place to share our thoughts..comfort each other and give advice.

RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:

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.

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Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 11, 2019 at 6:42pm

Comment by JayDee659 on October 10, 2019 at 2:14pm: B'sNukeMom, thanks! BTW it took over 20 takes to get the profile shot for my FB page. Some of the rejects are hilarious. We're all sitting on the spiral stairway that went to the loft. This was after moonshine tasting, thank goodness nobody got hurt.

Comment by mariecb on October 10, 2019 at 2:03pm: Oleander - that picture just makes me smile and feel so happy too!! He is adorable!!

Comment by LindaGirl on October 10, 2019 at 1:57pm: Oleander, what a cutie your grandson is. Maybe one day, I’ll have a picture to post also. One can only dream!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 10, 2019 at 1:51pm: Oleander - that's awesome that your Sailor got to choose a location near her sister! I don't blame her for wanting to be near her adorable nephew - like JayDee said, that picture makes me smile ;-D

(And Oleander and I have been lucky enough to meet in person too - same time I was meeting up with JayDee!)

Love getting to meet new Navy moms!

Comment by JayDee659 on October 10, 2019 at 1:34pm: Oleander, that picture makes me smile! What a blessing!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 10, 2019 at 11:48am: mariecb - our youngest that is coaching in NE also got a part time job at a running store in Lincoln!

Isn't the GI Bill wonderful?!? So glad it's available to our military members.

Jack's Momma - good luck to your oldest in his job search! Do you think you'll be able to visit your sailor overseas? And congrats on another grandson! (Lucky you!)

JayDee - I know you had a fantastic time visiting both your girls and their SO's! I enjoyed seeing your pictures on FB. (JayDee and I are friends on FB and have been lucky enough to meet up in person!) What a wonderful birthday celebration for all of you...

Comment by mariecb on October 10, 2019 at 10:51am: It's great to hear how your children are doing. Cole (28 years) has been out of the navy for over 2 years and is pursuing his Mechanical Engineering degree with his GI Bill at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks (my hometown) but 5 hours away from us now. Ivie (non-military) (25 years) graduated with a Communications Degree and Sports Management minor about 3 years ago. She is currently teaching ballroom dance and training for competition and also works at a running store here in Duluth, MN where we live. She has a boyfriend she lives with in town so we are empty nested. Hoping for marriages and grandchildren soon!! Our Bailey (maltipoo) is almost 15 years old!

Comment by JayDee659 on October 10, 2019 at 10:20am: Checking in. Sailor has now been in for 4 years (where does time go) and has re-upped although her sailor husband has not. They are stationed in Norfolk, shes on a carrier, he's on a sub.

My oldest daughter earned her PhD in Chemistry from Virginia Tech in May and is currently employed by the university while her boyfriend finishes his PhD.

Both my girls are in Virginia - just opposite ends!

We just had a family vacation last week and it was great to spend time with all the kids. Today just happens to be my sailors birthday!

Comment by Jack's Momma on October 9, 2019 at 3:49pm: hi everyone we are doing well, our daughter is expecting our first biological grandson( we have a 6 yr old grandson her step son) our oldest son graduated from college in May and is looking into law enforcement met with the FBI, US Marshalls office and now local in his city, youngest is officially in his duty station over seas.