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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

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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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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
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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 2, 2012 at 5:38pm: The walls do seem to have an echo to them, don't they? Plus, when our sailor left, so did all the kids who spent hours at our house. To drop from cooking for about 6 every night to just 2 was really weird.

Now, four years later, I never seem to have enough time for everything I do. My hubby is technically retired at 58, but he works 4 part time jobs.

Comment by Lisette-in-NJ on April 2, 2012 at 5:12pm: Day 1 of the empty nest. My daughter just left for boot camp today. I'm proud of her but I already miss her terribly. This is the first time I've had an empty nest in 35 years. I hope I can adjust. Right now I feel numb.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 2, 2012 at 3:18pm: Welcome to lschwepp and browns57. Give us a shout out.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 2, 2012 at 7:03am: Welcome sdees3

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 1, 2012 at 2:38pm: shermb--make every minute you have with your sailor count! I believe you can still get a pass to sit with him at the airport until his plane leaves, if that works in your time schedule.

Our sailors birthday is this week. We went to the Dollar Store and bought all sorts of silly cards to fill up his mailbox. I got one that says he's a bad influence on me--seems whenever we see him, he's found a new beer I should try. Oh my--trying to get that weight off is impossible!

Comment by shermb on April 1, 2012 at 1:41pm: Let me claify, his PIR date is 04/06, next friday. Not this weekend. :P

Comment by shermb on April 1, 2012 at 1:40pm: Thanks for the welcome, Carols Kitchen! My son's PIR is this weekend and then he will be flown out on Sat. to Florida. He is a little older at 29 but it's still hard to see him go. Even though we have been "empty nesters" for a while, Brian was within a 30 minute drive from us and would come home about once a week. He has graduated from college and worked since then, but, as I said, has always been close by. Having him join the Navy is a whole different ball game that most people don't seem to understand so I don't say much anymore. Anyway, I have found NFM to be very helpful in getting through BC and now on to A school. I'm looking forward to getting to know you all better. Go Navy!