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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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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 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.

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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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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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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EMPTYNESTERS

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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
Latest Activity: on Sunday

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 navymom9875 on April 28, 2012 at 10:43am: Tee-1sailor's mom: I have to share my LO to that the extent that I hardly ever get to see him. He is married and so when he "comes home" it's not to my home anymore. He hasn't been home (my house) since entering the Navy a year and a half ago. His room is still "his" room as he has never been able to come back and pack things up. We had to mail things he needed and everything else is still there just like it was when he left. In some ways that's comforting but in some ways it makes me sad knowing that he'll never occupy the room again in the same way. Change is hard but as Navy moms we have to accept it and move on in new ways with our LO's.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 28, 2012 at 9:38am: Just getting ready to run to the post office. Molly's Adopt a Sailor group here adopted Marines and Army this month. Sending out one box with 10 pillowcases and personal hygiene to be shared within the group, and one individual box jammed full of nuts, protein bars, single drink mixes and etc for another Marine. Sometimes we are lucky and get a note back, most times we know we are making a difference in someone's life for just a moment of love from home.

Everyone have a good weekend. We are going to a murder mystery potluck to raise funds for "No More Malaria" project. I'm a disenchanted former elephant handler made to move to the snake house, and my hubby is a lion handler who wants to open his own circus. Off to fix a hot veggie dish and a dessert.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 28, 2012 at 9:33am: Welcome Sonya-PIR 6-8 Ship 09 Div172

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 28, 2012 at 9:32am: Welcome Annette Ship 11/ DIV 141

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 28, 2012 at 9:32am: Welcome julieG S07/Div161 . Busy week of new empty nesters--just like in nature.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 28, 2012 at 9:28am: Welcome Ruth :)

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 27, 2012 at 4:15pm: Welcome indymom . I'm a Hoosier from Carmel, and will be home for my high school reunion in July.

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on April 27, 2012 at 10:15am: Welcome indymom, I haven't been a member of the group for long but these ladies are very supportive from what I've experienced so far. I hear you about the depression. I just started on meds to try to get out of it, I hope it helps. My son has been in for 3 years. I miss him so much, but you get used to making what you have at home be enough. Sometimes it works, sometimes....not so much.

Comment by indymom on April 27, 2012 at 8:51am: hello Ladies,Thought i would joing the group as well after ive been really depressed lately ,,my son is in Gm school at GL,and even tho he texts me often to say hi,,im having a hard time dealing with him not being home, i really feel like im not a part of his life anymore and its making this depression worse