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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.

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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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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 14, 2012 at 9:56am: Welcome Sharpmom! All of us here understand what you are going through. Transitioning to an empty nest is very difficult and takes time so go easy on yourself. We are here if you need support or just to vent. One thing I've learned is that no one else understands what a Navy mom is going through except other Navy moms so thank goodness we have sites like this were we can connect and know that we are not alone.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 14, 2012 at 9:54am: Welcome Sharpmom(Ship 12/Div 154)

Comment by navymom9875 on April 14, 2012 at 9:51am: carolskitchen - So very sorry for your loss. I will have you in my thoughts and hope that sweet memories of Lucy will bring you some measure of peace and comfort.

Comment by Sharpmom2012 on April 14, 2012 at 9:49am: Good morning to all of my fellow emptynesters. Our daughter is currently in wk 3 of BC. I have been quite a mess since she left. I finally got 2 letters from her as well as a phone call on Thursday. Hearing her tell me that she is doing okay and is determined to make it through BC has really helped ease my mind. I still miss her terribly but am not quite as emotionally distraught as before.

I have been on the N4M's website for a while now but finally decided I needed to join this group as well. I told my husband that it is a good thing we still like each other because now it is just the two of us at home with the cat and the granddog! lol.

@ carols_kitchen, I am so sorry for your difficult day today. We had to make that incredibly hard decision for one of our beloved pets a couple of years ago. It was a very dificult day.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 14, 2012 at 8:39am: Welcome seesmom

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 14, 2012 at 7:46am: In a few minutes, we take our pound puppy, Lucy, to the vet. It will be our final good bye. Our sailor was home a few weeks ago and knew she was doing poorly. We rescued an abandonded dog over 12 years ago---and she gave us lots of love.

Farewell our friend.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 13, 2012 at 6:00pm: Welcome MinnesotaMom

Comment by velvetlace on April 10, 2012 at 2:48pm: Tenn Navy Mom-

    Easter was nice. I played at church and sang so it was very special to me.   It was great getting to talk with my corpsman son, too.   I took my husband out to eat since it is not as much fun cooking for just the two of us.   I am hoping my corpsman son will be home sometime this summer!   I am sure all in good time.

    Thank you for keeping me in your prayers. I will do the same for you!

   Blessings to you!

   Mary

Comment by Lisette-in-NJ on April 10, 2012 at 12:51pm: Tina: That is really hard coming home to a really empty home every night. About a year ago my husband was working night shift and my daughter who was still home at the time was always out with her friends. I really hated it.

Comment by Tina - socalnavymom on April 10, 2012 at 10:05am: My Son has been gone since the beginning of Dec and I have actually talked to him once on the phone. we mainly correspond thru email. He emails me about once a week, sometimes more. I just depends on how busy he is. However his girlfriend has receive a couple more phone calls than I. He also sends me "public service announcements" - mainly whats going on in his life aboard the ship - for me to read at church and to forward on to other family & friends. He also emails me items he wants me to send him :-) (this is where I see the "once a mom, always a mom" come into play). So I hope this helps, I know its not a lot, but I'll take as many emails from him that I can get. It definitely brightens my day. I'm learning to about life of a Navy mom and life of having no children at home. I got hit with a double whammy... after my son went to bootcamp, my husband got a new job working nights, so by the time I get home from work, he is gone and doesn't get home until about the time I get out of bed in the a.m. to get ready for work. So I have definitely felt the emptynest thing. it hits harder on some days than others, I just keep reminding myself... it's God's way not mine and he does have a plan for all of this.