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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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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 mamabeans on March 13, 2012 at 11:10pm: LOL what don't I need? A place to cry... a place to laugh through all of this... a place to have my lil boy back! But I know he is becoming the man I envisioned him being. All my hopes and dreams are up in Chicago right now.

Comment by carols_kitchen on March 13, 2012 at 3:07pm: Welcome mamabeans (ship 03/Div 116) Yes, life is different. I am trying to catch up on my rest from having my sailor home last week (plus daylight savings time.) It was fantastic having him in the house, cooking, going out to eat at new and familiar places--etc. He has been in the Navy for 4 years now (and has also re-enlisted.) Let us know if you need anything.

Comment by mamabeans on March 13, 2012 at 2:32pm: Hello to all. Well, I guess I am definitely in this group! My one and only child left for bootcamp and is beginning his 4th week. His 19th birthday is this month. No phone calls yet but 2 letters thus far. I was a single mother for most of his life so it has always been just me and him. THIS IS HARD!!! And the journey has only begun. It is so hard to not think of him as that little blonde toddler that use to line up all of his matchbox cars and create racetracks with paper towel and TP empty rolls. Not to mention taking food out of the boxes so he could make "tunnels". I miss those days. Yep, I am definitely an empty nester!

Comment by ebigirl on March 12, 2012 at 5:47pm: Hello ladies. I haven't been on the site for what seems like forever! I recognized some names (velvetlace) here so thought I would post a quick hello! My son graduated 5/6/2011 and was in ship 12/ div 157. He is currently a Seabee with the Reserves, and LOVES it!

The past few months have been full of changes for me. It's hard to believe that it's been a year since my son left for bootcamp! Time sure does fly.

Comment by carols_kitchen on March 11, 2012 at 6:34am: Welcome and interesting name, jenniferzcrazyplace

Comment by velvetlace on March 10, 2012 at 2:58pm: Daysleeper-

I am worried that we will get involved in Iran and Syria. It seems like we ought to get out of Afghanistan now, and we need to concentrate on rebuiliding our own county. The average age of our roads and bridges is 45 years old, and they were only meant to last 50 years. Time to rebuild our own country, IMHO. We cannot be the world's policeman. Rome overextended themselves with wars and conquest,and I do not want that happening to the USA. I love my country!

Comment by velvetlace on March 9, 2012 at 1:49pm: Tenn NavyMom-

Thank you for your prayers!   I do miss my Cub so much!

I agree with you that we need to pull all of our troops out of Afghanistan as soon as possible. I cannot believe that some of the Republicans are beating the drums of war to go into Syria and Iran.   It is crazy bad!!! I will pray for peace, and that your Cub does not go back to the sand pit/hell hole! It is definitely Dante's Inferno over there!   God bless you and your Cub!

Comment by momoftwosons on March 9, 2012 at 11:26am: Okay ladies, I've come to terms that my husband and I are emptynesters :) My Sailor is leaving for a 10 mos deployment and our youngest is away in college. So we've decided to see our Sailor off in Norfolk stopping on the way down to visit friends in DE and then off to SC to visit friends, then since we're half way down to FL we have both family and friends there and we're planning on being home in time for Easter. This is the first time in over 20 years we are doing for "Ourselves" - and I don't feel guilty.... it's about time. Besides I'm going to need a diversion from my sons deployment only if it is temporary.

Comment by velvetlace on March 8, 2012 at 6:36pm: Navymom9875- Thank you so much! I sure miss him. Today, March 8th, was the day he left to go to BC a year ago. It has been a long year, but a fruitful one for my cub.

Mary