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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

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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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.

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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 carols_kitchen on April 8, 2012 at 6:53pm: Welcome Raeliza

Comment by velvetlace on April 8, 2012 at 6:03pm: ebigirl- My cub corpsman was able to come home after A school He left the end of August to go to his present duty station. He has not been home since. He wants to come home in a couple of months. Hopefully, he will be able to do so.

Yes time does fly. I remember our boys being a BC a year ago. Wow!

Comment by ebigirl on April 8, 2012 at 5:59pm: Sue, thank you for sharing your beautiful poem. I'm printing it as I type!

Happy Easter to all of you! The beauty of our group is that we are all in different "stages" of our child's (and our) Navy experience. I'm very lucky and admit very selfish that my son is at home. He is a Seabee in the Reserves, and could be deployed at any time.

Velvetlace, how long has it been since your cub was home? Was he able to come home after A school? I've been thinking of you today and remembering that at this time last year our boys were in bootcamp. Time sure flies!

Comment by A-MJ's Mom Ship7/Div162 (2012) on April 8, 2012 at 5:52pm: Happy Easter to all the other Empty Nesters out there. Our youngest son is at GL right now and his older brother is away in Louisiana in school. Tough day but we are making it. This site is great for the support! :)

Comment by velvetlace on April 8, 2012 at 5:33pm: Sue-   What a beautiful prayer!!!

Tenn Navy Mom-   We heard from our Cub today. He is well. He has tonight off, and he had just woken up. He is on night duty, 12 hour shifts.   I still do not know when he is coming home!

To all-   I played and sang at mass today, and I prayed for all my Navy moms, families, and their cubs that God would keep them safe from harm.

   Happy and Blessed Easter to all of you!   Love you all!   <3

Comment by Jangee on April 8, 2012 at 1:33pm: Thanks for the kind words Tenn Navy Mom. I'm so proud of my son and it's something he really wants to do, but this is tougher than I thought. The last letter I wrote to him I told him, "Expect the biggest hug of your life at PIR."

Comment by Lisette-in-NJ on April 8, 2012 at 1:05pm: Thanks for sharing that prayer. It's beautiful and so true. Made me cry but everything makes me cry these days. My daughter is in BC and I'm just trying to adjust to the my youngest and only daughter being in the Navy. I'm so pround of her but I miss her terribly. My son was in the Navy for 7 years so I was used to the long deployments but I had my younger children at home then. Now it's the empty nest is just seems harder. I will be praying for both you and your son on this long deployment.

Comment by Jangee on April 8, 2012 at 1:02pm: Beautiful prayer Sue. Oh my, 18 months. My son is in Great lakes his PIR is 4/20. It's only been 6 weeks and I miss him so much. I'm hoping for a call today. Talking to other Navy Moms is a great help.

Comment by mamabeans on April 8, 2012 at 12:20pm: Treasured Memories: Joshy years ago (around age 6) hunting for easter eggs at Grandma and Grandpa's house. He ran around with his cousin gathering all the plastic eggs with a big grin. After he was done, he held his easter bag and looked at me exasperated, gasping for breath from running around and said.... "whew, that bunny pooped out a lot of eggs!" I laughed so hard I had to run to the bathroom to pee! But the kicker was when I got back..... he asked me if it hurt the bunny because of the plastic!!