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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 momoftwosons on April 20, 2012 at 8:50pm: My quilted Blue Star in honor of my deployed Sailor. This weekend project is done and only 1 day total. Will be hanging this on the front door until his safe return home.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 20, 2012 at 7:57pm: Welcome JessicaB-Sailor Mom

Comment by rjnavydocmom on April 20, 2012 at 7:06pm: I'm going crazy! I can't wait to see my baby. Not long now...Thanks ebigirl and everyone with input on all the goes with graduation!

Comment by JackieD on April 20, 2012 at 3:55pm: carols kitchen - Thank you. My son, 18 y/o, graduated boot camp on March 30th and is now in Pensacola, FL. He's my baby and it's hard him being so far away now. I have a 20 y/o daughter who's away in her 3rd year of college.

ebigirl - I agree friends/family members who don't have a child in the military truly don't understand our feelings.

My daughter is away at college and it's a totally different feeling/experience from my son being away in the Navy. Boot camp was the hardest part. Even though now we communicate all the time, I still worry about him.

It'll be nice having a place to share these feelings with others who have been there and/or are going through the same.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 20, 2012 at 3:52pm: Welcome seabreeze

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 20, 2012 at 3:43pm: Welcome to JackieDNavyMom

Comment by ebigirl on April 20, 2012 at 2:48pm: Your welcome. At least your through the hardest part...bootcamp. At least that was the hardest part for me so far. The NO communication just did me in! As a mom who knew where my kid was and what he was doing 24/7, it was like pulling the rug out from underneath me.

Comment by ebigirl on April 20, 2012 at 1:27pm: seabreeze-family members who don't have a child in the Military have a hard time understanding where we are coming from. That's part of the reason I am so thankful for NavyforMoms.

I agree I needed to let go, and I did, but as a mom I will always worry. My son is my one and only also! Hang in there and take care!

Comment by momoftwosons on April 20, 2012 at 9:31am: Shermb, I saw the Blue Star Banner on google but didn't like the way the star was- So I'm just winging it and so far haven't needed to rip anything out yet :) which is a good thing. I am having troublng getting the star the way I want. But if it works well, I just may be taking orders.....although I have several friends that I'd love to make them with their sons being deployed. It'll be hard putting a price on a future heirloom. Can't wait to get it finished and hang on my door :)

will post completed pics.

Comment by Momship on April 20, 2012 at 9:05am: momoftwosons, what a great idea! i will have to remember that...i have one but it came in the mail : ) love the idea of homemade, sentimental, personalized, very sweet...something to pass down in the family.