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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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
PDF – 2.7 MB
PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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: on Sunday

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 May 30, 2011 at 12:57am: @trio. Do you have any daughters?

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on May 29, 2011 at 7:51pm: I volunteer at the humane society in Minneapolis and have always had all our pets (cats and dogs) spayed or neutered. kittens and puppies are adorable, but I hate to see any of them without a loving home.

Comment by mrs.twstd on May 28, 2011 at 5:01pm: Daysleeper...I am glad you are trapping them and taking them to the humane society! I do animal rescue where I live, but I understand his frustration with strays! It is a shame you and your husband and the kitties have to suffer because of someone else's irresponsibility! Thanks for adopting your doggie! :) Sorry you have to work the rest of the week-end!

Comment by Kimberly on May 27, 2011 at 4:40pm: Thanks you all -- a little misty- eyed right now. Love you all

Comment by carols_kitchen on May 27, 2011 at 4:37pm: Kimberly-- we ARE here for each other. Anytime anyone needs something special, send me a private message--or any of the other emptynesters.

Have a safe weekend. Hugs to you all!

Comment by mrs.twstd on May 27, 2011 at 12:47pm: Thank you for your prayers! I will keep you and your son in mine as well! :) Oh, who am I kidding?! I pray for all of our Sailors and their families!! ((hugs))

Comment by mrs.twstd on May 27, 2011 at 10:09am: Daysleeper and Tenn Navy Mom! Thank you for your encouragement!! His last letter broke my heart and has me sooo worried! Now he is homesick and he thinks he has a stress fracture in his foot! :( He said he will have it looked at when he gets to A School, but with the runs and B.S. coming up, plus performing I am afraid the foot won't hold up...I wrote to him begging him to not take any chances and get it looked at NOW. All I can do is pray for him. As for the home sickness, I told him to just close his eyes and feel our love wrap around him because it is always there.

Kimberly, I am so sorry you are struggling...((hugs)) to all!

Comment by Kimberly on May 26, 2011 at 11:01pm: To my navy mom friends. I've really struggled the last few months. I haven't wanted to whine on the website so I have kept up but I was SEVERLY STRUGGLING. Ok for the last few weeks ive been better much has to do with my mothers death my physical illness and Andy. I am trying to resove to react in a different manner , a positive manner. ANYWAY Andy is home for 5 more days ( he is a submariner and had to have foot surgery in order to not get any kind of infection when down in the sub. He is so grown up and respectful he now has a girlfriend he has known from here since he was 12. It will be hard to see him go back but I sm so PROUD of him not something said before the Navy. His dad is smiling all the time. Thank you all for your support and prayers and believe it or not I miss you all

Comment by mrs.twstd on May 21, 2011 at 12:00pm: Hello everybody! I am so glad to be part of your group...

A little stressed today worrying about the boy. After Hell Week he was sick with respiratory issues, then he had the gas chamber yesterday. Hoping he is ok!! We are two weeks away from Graduation and we have had one phone call, but many letters.:) Why is it that the closer we get to grad. the more stressed I am getting? My daughter-in-law is feeling the same way. We have done sooo good up until now...Beth