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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.

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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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
Latest Activity: 13 hours ago

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 Kimberly on November 11, 2011 at 10:46pm: I'm glad you are working in your yard like I said mine will be weeds. Yes I had a car wreck and did break my leg but I can assure you total carefulness will be executed from now on. I'm tired of this sick role. Being a nurse I want to shake it off and go but it is the right leg. Please keep me in your prayers

Comment by Kimberly on November 10, 2011 at 10:24pm: Oh daysleeper I know that you DIL. You are great! I was just saying all these situations are hard for each of us. MUCH love and prayers to you. God bless each and everyone of us. Did you hear I broke my leg---my garden is really going to be awful now. Lol

Comment by Kimberly on November 8, 2011 at 6:52pm: Hey daysleeper!!!!!@gypsy. Yes I have heard of this happening. It is very hard on the parents that are here. Many boys go off with the girls families so that does make it hard the best advice I can give you is just try to get along cause if you fight it they just get more hostile and angry

Comment by gypsy on November 7, 2011 at 5:10pm: OK, just wondering if anyone in this group has delt with this...along with dealing with the empty nest syndrome, a few months before my son went to boot camp, he met this girl...and things progressed so rapidly it was unreal..to make a LONG story short..this girl and her mother TOTALLY dominated my son. I know he allowed it,as he hadnt had many girlfriends and was very nieve etc, but they had him staying over there all weekend before we knew what was happening! The mother is a total master manipulator, and now they are planning to get married (with her pushing) next summer a month before he is to be deployed for 8 months!! why? before he left for boot camp, they talked him into staying there most of the time and ofcourse he wanted to!! he's a guy..she's a LOOSE girl, but they would not want him to spend ANY time with us before he left. I know he is to blame for letting them do this, I know...but how can I deal with this, we have now decided to not say anymore to make him wake up, but it still hurts so much because he can't see what they are doing. any advice from anyone who's been through anything similar? thanks

Comment by carols_kitchen on November 7, 2011 at 7:50am: The rainstorms are gathering to come in this week. They say we could have winds on Tuesday of 50 mph.

Yesterday our little town had a nice Veteran's Day parade. WE followed it up by a "parade" to HomeDepot and look at kitchen cabinets again. Just undecided how we want to finish out our kitchen.

The dogs can't quite get the hang of the time change. Little froo-froo Buttercup has had me up since 4 am.

Everyone have a good week :)

Comment by carols_kitchen on November 7, 2011 at 6:30am: Welcome to Celia NJ

Comment by carols_kitchen on November 6, 2011 at 7:52am: Welcome to ArNavyMom.

Comment by Kimberly on November 5, 2011 at 2:01pm: I didn't know it would take that long. I'm sure some of the packages get taken by disrespectful people. That is a shame. You know they can't steal our prayers tho. I wonder if the packages that are sent to the ships take that long too

Comment by Kimberly on November 4, 2011 at 5:49pm: Lori I've mailed some packages FPO/APO. I think they may have taken 2 weeks??? God bless our troops