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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

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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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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 March 31, 2012 at 5:16pm: Welcome teresac66 and slapout52. Our son is getting to his 4th year anniversary.

Comment by ebigirl on March 31, 2012 at 4:14pm: Welcome slapout52! My son was at RTC this time last year, and PIR'd 5/6/2011. He's my only and a Seabee in the Reserves. I haven't heard of any deployment plans for him yet, but you never know when the Navy will/might decide he is needed.

I'm glad you found us. Keep in touch.

Comment by slapout52 on March 31, 2012 at 3:23pm: Got a Sailor who is coming up on his one-year anniversary with the USN and is a few months from his first deployment. I am a brand new empty-nester, though. My #2 son, my Saolor's little brother, has been gone for nearly 2 months. He is at Ft. Benning in basic there for infantry. I will be looking at having 2 deployed before the end of 2012. Glad to d
Find this group!

Comment by carols_kitchen on March 31, 2012 at 8:48am: Welcome Kim. some days are better than others. I keep busy with the site here called Molly's Adopt a Sailor. We write cards, collect goodies, sew or tie die pillowcases--each month is a different mission. Some months I'm a "one box" Mom, other times I coordinate smaller packing parties to keep busy. You'll find your new normal.

Comment by ebigirl on March 31, 2012 at 1:18am: Welcome Kim! Welcome to Navy4moms. What part of your child's Navy adventure are you at? My son was in bootcamp this time last year. He is a Reserve with the Seabees. We live in Washington State, and he drills with the Marines at Joint Base Lewis McChord (both Army and Marine) just south of Tacoma, WA.

My son is my only child, and I didn't want to do anything while he was in bc. We drove to Chicago for his PIR. Very long trip but very worth every mile.

Again, welcome to the emptynester group!

Comment by Kim on March 31, 2012 at 12:18am: Hi I am a empty nester. I do really good most days although lately I haven't been wanting to do anything. Maybe its this dreary weather.

Comment by carols_kitchen on March 30, 2012 at 10:50pm: Welcome mummabumma1

Comment by carols_kitchen on March 30, 2012 at 6:33am: Welcome to nmwilson

Comment by velvetlace on March 29, 2012 at 5:27pm: Tenn Navy Mom -

   Good to hear from you!   I will need your ear when my Cub is finally deployed. I am not looking forward to it, but I think it will happen anyway.    THat is a good thing to know that Head and SHoulders has multi-uses.

    It is raining a lot here in Northern California. We are under a flood watch. We live 85 feet up from the ocean. so we are not in any danger. However, if we want to travel anywhere else except our town, it may be tricky.   It goes without saying that when it rains, it pours especially where I live.

    Take care!

Comment by velvetlace on March 24, 2012 at 10:10pm: Hi, Meryl-

Welcome to our group. It is wonderful to have another mom that is so caring! All the ladies here are wonderful. But don't tell them I told you! It is a secret! LOL

I live in Northern California, and my son is a corpsman in Florida. I have not seen him since last August. I never get used to the separation!

Mary