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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

Events

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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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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: 9 minutes 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 momoftwosons on October 8, 2011 at 10:40pm: Thanks for the welcome - I had a double emptynest quick from my children. On Aug 28 my youngest of two sons moved into his college dorm and my older son was up in MEPs on August 30th for his swearing in ceremony and left for boot camp. Need I say that pieces of my heart of gone in two different directions.

Been keepig busy with projects and trying to get back to my quilting projects. My husband and I will be driving out to GL for PIR end month. counting the days.

Comment by carols_kitchen on October 8, 2011 at 9:34pm: Welcome momoftwosons

Comment by Kimberly on October 7, 2011 at 9:30pm: Daysleeper do I have to come take care of you ? DARN IT all tge way to Hawaii? You take care--- Tenn Mom HUGS

Comment by Kimberly on October 3, 2011 at 6:57pm: Well that chemical fire at the Magna-Blend place was very close to my house well like 7 miles away and to my daughters and sons too. We all live close. We have a friend that works there thank god he wasn't hurt. Noone was hurt but we are indoors with windows closed

Comment by Kimberly on October 2, 2011 at 8:34pm: I get sea sick really bad I'm a Dramamine girl. Even diving going out on tge small boat I can't wait to get I to the water and go under. No zodiac for me zip lining ok

Comment by Kimberly on October 2, 2011 at 3:29pm: I have never zip lined. I'm going!!! What is a zodiac trip?

Comment by Kimberly on October 2, 2011 at 9:26am: Wow I got kicked out of the group. Not really I had to re- sign in. Lol. I'm so old here I must have been in the archives

Comment by BlessedMom on October 1, 2011 at 11:59pm: Thank you Carols_kitchen, Kimberly & Daysleeper...thank u for sharing! Great idea Kimberly I will look into 'adopt a sailor'. Your kind words are sincerely appreciated. God bless u all! ((hug))

Comment by Kimberly on October 1, 2011 at 9:49pm: Daysleeper you are great:). Go on vacation and REST

Comment by Kimberly on October 1, 2011 at 1:04pm: Blessedmom once married even my kids that live around here are not as easy to get to be around My Navy son doesn't even want to date girls that aren't from here as he knows thru what he has seen things don't stay tight. The girls here don't want someone away all the time so he is lonely. I just keep a box out with his address on it and mail him 1-2 a month so he has to think of home then if not before then. It also helps the empty feeling. I also have 2 more soldiers that I like to think I have adopted cause they share everything I send so I have a BIG navy family God bless you I pray for peace to you