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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.

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Graduation Info
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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
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 allensmom3 on April 24, 2012 at 11:55pm: Hello everyone.. As of today I am the proud mother of a Navy Sailor and he is my only child. It has been a hard transition. Now that I can talk to him on the phone I am feeling a lot more at ease with the lifestyle changes. It was a hard eight weeks and I know it will get better but I still have those days.

Comment by Annette GM3 Mom on April 24, 2012 at 8:09pm: hello all... another mom of an only... PIR in 16 days! I cannot wait to see my son. Today has just been one of those days. I have not had one in a while. I might have to try the screaming thing in the car on the way to work tomorrow. College was a breeze compared to this.

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on April 24, 2012 at 10:00am: Hi everyone, November was the last time I heard my son's voice. Deployment has been the hardest thing yet. I think it's because of not having the community of past events, like BC, A School, etc. My local N4M group is gret though. I attend the get togethers whenever I can. I think the hardest thing is that my family (who are very close) seems to have mostly forgotten him. Out of sight out of mind. Not so with mom! He'll be passing the 3 year mark in a month or so.

Comment by slapout52 on April 23, 2012 at 4:53pm: I am right there with you crazydaisy! My Sailor's PIR was last June; my Soldier graduates from OSUT at Ft. Benning next month. The first thing you do is learn the difference between HOOYAH and HOOAH! LOL Message me anytime!

Comment by Jangee on April 22, 2012 at 7:38pm: That's great that you all got together. Would love to do this with any central Florida moms out there.

My son's PIR was Friday and it went beautifully. So proud of him and all the new sailors. You can see all the work that went into it. Now he's in Pensacola and very excited to get started with his classes.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 22, 2012 at 3:54pm: Four of us met through N4M Illinois, and met for lunch today. It helps to meet with others and talk about your sailors and their lives before and other boot camp, classes and deployments.

Comment by Tylersmom on April 22, 2012 at 2:16pm: June 1st. And then to Pensacola for A school

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Comment by Lion55's mom on April 22, 2012 at 1:47pm: Tylers mom, when is PIR?

Comment by Tylersmom on April 22, 2012 at 1:43pm: Thanks all of you. I thought saying goodbye for bc was hard, then not having him for Easter was hard, I am trying to think it will get easier but it seems to get harder. Right now all I am looking forward to is PIR to be able to see him. I am so proud and sad at the same time.

Comment by Lion55's mom on April 22, 2012 at 1:28pm: Tylersmom, Last Sunday afternoon I went into the basement of my home and screamed like I was being murdered. I don't think any of the neighbors heard me and it did help for a minute. I miss my son so much too. We have to get used to saying goodbye to them but it just leaves a hole in my heart