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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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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.

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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 DL(ship2div925) on April 13, 2011 at 7:17pm: thanks, carols kitchen! Nice to be here.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 12, 2011 at 7:19pm: welcome DL(ship2div925

Comment by velvetlace on April 10, 2011 at 2:31pm: Sally--- I can't hardly wait for the PIR. We have all of our travel arrangements completed, and I am now trying to figure out how to pack light so that we do not have to check bags from California and back. My son is going to Corpsman school next. I totally understand, and my son has only been gone a little over a month. Hugs to you!!!! Mary

Comment by velvetlace on April 10, 2011 at 12:27pm: Sally- I wanted to cry after I read your post. I am sure that I will have the same emotions when my son comes home on leave. Right now, he is in boot camp. He is our only child that we did not think that we would ever have. I have his room ready for him when he comes home on leave. I cannot wait. I am planning on going to his PIR to see him I am sure that will be emotional, as well. Take care. We are all here for you. Mary

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 9, 2011 at 1:49pm: Sally, be sure you post a couple (or dozen--lol) pix here for us!

It is so hard to only cook for us two--our refrigerator is so lonely.

Comment by lccornwell on April 8, 2011 at 6:22am: Thank you Mary.

Comment by velvetlace on April 7, 2011 at 5:21pm: Daysleeper-- I agree wtih you that Congress needs to think about all those people who will be hurt if they are not paid---our service men and women. I hope that an agreement can be reached that is palatable to all.

lccronwell--- I know about one minute in high school and then the next minute gone. I guess I was lucky that at least my son was home for a couple of years going to college. But, the time went by way too fast. I really miss his dirty dishes!!! Welcome to the group. Mary

Comment by lccornwell on April 6, 2011 at 7:28am: Thanks for the welcome. I wish I had known about this group earlier. My son has been gone for some time now. One minute he was in high school and I was running ragged taking care of all of his stuff and the next he was gone and I had no idea what to do with the rest of my life! He left just one week after graduating high school. I have only seen him three times in five years. I think I am allowed to say, that he is on a ship that might or might not still be in Japan.To deal with my new life with no one left to take care of, I went back to a career that I had abandoned 35 years earlier. I started writing again. I ghostwrite and my clients are all very interesting, as are their stories. However, since March 11, I have not been able to write two words that have made sense and thankfully, my clients have all been understanding.

Anyway, enough about us...It's nice to meet all of you and I am sure that you all have great stories of how you handled the shock of becoming an emptynester.

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 6, 2011 at 7:11am: Took the sailor's picture and a "dixie sup" to work yesterday. Put it up on the tray holder so the kids at school could see Andy and wish his a happy birthday. They wanted to know if they could have birthday cake, too. Ahh, the humor of little kids.