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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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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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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 Lion55's mom on April 22, 2012 at 1:20pm: My son left a week ago today after being home for almost a month. I am not sure which hurt more, boot camp two years ago or this....He is in pearl harbor now. Its in the middle of the freaking pacific ocean!!!! I can;t drive there. He is a nuke and has been in school for the last two years on the east coast, where he lived off base with my mother, his grandmother. This is hard!!!!

Comment by Lion55's mom on April 22, 2012 at 1:18pm: Tylers mom, welcome aboard. I am on that boat too. this is the best place to talk about it.

Comment by Tylersmom on April 22, 2012 at 1:11pm: Today is a really bad one. I am so down and missing my son so much, does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this better?

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on April 22, 2012 at 12:59pm: Hi velvetlace, I recognize you!

Thanks for the welcome carols_kitchen. I got an email from my sailor last night! I get one once in a blue moon.

That quilt is beautiful !!! My son did school in Pensacola. When he's stateside he's stationed in JAX.

Comment by velvetlace on April 21, 2012 at 9:09pm: Jessica B sailor mom! Welcome!!!!!!!

Comment by velvetlace on April 21, 2012 at 9:08pm: momoftwosons-

Love your quilt!!!!!!!

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 21, 2012 at 11:35am: Welcome Tee-1sailor's mom .

Yes, life is so different when you have one or more serving in the military.

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on April 21, 2012 at 10:41am: Hello from sunny California. I'm a single emptynester with a deployed sailor (son) and a daughter who just got back from her honeymoon. She does have 2 children (I'm a grandma too) and neither of of my "kids" have lived with me for years but the being single again part has me pretty lonely. I sped a lot of time on Navy for Moms.

Comment by Proud MM Mom on April 21, 2012 at 9:19am: Good Morning all, Well I thought i would join the group. My son Graduated 04-06-12. He is now in MM school in Great Lakes, I have my good days and my bad. After my sons PIR, my then 18 now 19 year has decided she wants to join!! I am thrilled that she is showing excitement about joining. but then there is a part of me thinking there goes my babies!! Both are leaving me.

Comment by Kim on April 20, 2012 at 10:02pm: Jackied I have a son in Pensacola also. I also have a son in BC. I had a hard time when my youngest left. Don't get me wrong I love both my boys, my oldest was in collage and then entered the Navy so he already was gone 2 years. My youngest lived with me up until he went to BC.