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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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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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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 velvetlace on January 12, 2012 at 3:20pm: Tenn Mom- My son is still stationed at a naval hospital in Florida. He has not heard yet whether deployment is definite yet. One never knows until the last minute. I am hoping that he gets some leave soon. He was not able to come home for the holidays. I miss him a lot. The house is just too quiet without him since the cats just meow once in a while. :) I hope your cub is doing well. What is he doing now?

Mary

Comment by Kimberly on January 10, 2012 at 2:44pm: Agreed you all get well

Comment by Kimberly on January 6, 2012 at 5:48pm: Hey Tenn mom. Daysleeper and my other friends out there. Reading posts all the time

Comment by velvetlace on January 5, 2012 at 5:44pm: Daysleeper--- Right on! It is unfair that the Congress will not cooperate with our President. Our boys suffer because of the games that Congress is playing and no compromise of the tea partiers. It is frustrating. How can Grover Norquist hold us all hostage with this no tax hike pledge on millionaires? The lobbyist are running our country, and we now have an oligarchy not a democratic-republic. Well, I need to get off my soap box and go outside to our gorgeous California sunshine!!!!! Ha!

Comment by velvetlace on January 5, 2012 at 5:26pm: Tenn Navy Mom- I will march with you to Washington. If they have to listen to my accordion playing, it will be worse than kicking Congress' collective butts! Ha! I just wish we could get rid of all the lobbyists from running our country. Money is the only thing that apparently is important to our Congress. I am praying for an end to the hell pit war of Afghanistan as soon as possible. It has gone on way too long and is bankrupting our country!

Comment by Kimberly on January 5, 2012 at 12:25pm: Yeah for test completed

Comment by velvetlace on January 2, 2012 at 8:11pm: Daysleeper and Tenn Mom-

The texting thing sounds so familiar. We have not had even a text the last week from my corpsman son. He did call us on Christmas eve, so that was great! We pay for his cell phone so that we will have communication with him, but it seems like we are not accomplishing our mission. We are hoping that we hear from him this week. I am sending him out another box of goodies tomorrow.

We had a very quiet New Years Eve and New Years Day. Today, we have put away our outside Christmas lights etc. I am still keeping some of my snowmen, angels, etc. up for the month of January. I am keeping my nativity scenario up at least until January the 6th, The Epiphany, Little Christmas when the wiseman followed the star to the creche. I will continue to do a lot for my Kiwanis club here in McKinleyville, so that I do not miss my corpsman son so much. I am hoping that 2012 will bring more communication from my corpsman son. I just wish the war in Afghanistan would end!!! Love to you all!

Mary

Comment by carols_kitchen on January 2, 2012 at 3:51pm: Welcome Patrick's Mom

Comment by carols_kitchen on January 2, 2012 at 11:24am: Welcome to lisarn63

Comment by velvetlace on January 1, 2012 at 5:15pm: Tenn Navy Mom- Happy New Year to you too! I went to bed about 11 P.M. last night but there was lots of noise like firecrackers and artillery shells etc. that went off a few blocks from us from about midnight to 1 A.M. Then I finally got to sleep. I had to play and sing at church today, so I got up about 7 A.M. I hope that we can stay in touch during 2012 I said prayers at mass for both of our corpsmen sons today. My wish for the New Years is for the war in Afghanistan to end this year, and for all of our troops to come home safely.