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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

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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Graduation Info
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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy Speak

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: May 10

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 NukeMom(CVN-75) on December 31, 2010 at 4:59pm: Are you kidding me! I have been out of my moms house for well over 20 years and she still has my trunk. LOL Seriously every trip home I get asked if I am taking it back with me. Nope, gives her something to look at and remember me. :)

Comment by NukeMom(CVN-75) on December 31, 2010 at 12:52pm: OMG! Loved it and yes tissue alert. Thanks for sharing Carol.

Comment by carols_kitchen on December 31, 2010 at 12:38pm: Tissue Alert

http://www.link4u.com/kissedmyson.htm

Comment by carols_kitchen on December 31, 2010 at 10:01am: Welcome to Lou2. We are here for you.

Comment by NukeMom(CVN-75) on December 30, 2010 at 7:13pm: Actually with just having the Holidays I haven't had to go to the store to do actual shopping. But funny thing was he is the only one who liked cranberry sauce in the can. I bught it without thinking he wouldn't be home. I opened the can and sat it in the bowl on the table anyway. :) Everyone just looked at me and KNEW better than to say something. LOL

Comment by carols_kitchen on December 30, 2010 at 7:06pm: Welcome luvpuggies and kk. Those walls do get awfully quiet.

Comment by luvpuggies on December 30, 2010 at 6:54pm: Just peeking in to say Hi...I am now an official empty nester. My son left for BC on

Dec. 6th and he was an only child. Now just me and my husband and 3 dogs.Weirdly quiet...

Comment by carols_kitchen on December 30, 2010 at 5:48pm: Welcome NukeMomShip3 Div086 . We can all empathize with you. Have you been grocery shopping yet? That was so strange to no longer buy chips, cookies, twinkies, Mt. Dew, extra servings of food for all the guy pals who ate at our house. Just now learning how to cook for only two.

Comment by NukeMom(CVN-75) on December 30, 2010 at 5:16pm: Hey ladies just joined the emptynesters. My baby boy(God I hope he never find me here!) left for BC 12/16/10, haven't heard from him yet. I keep checking the mailbox. My daughter is a junior at Iowa State University and I thought it was tough dropping her off. OMG! People probably thought there was a death in the family, seriously I was so distraught in the air port when our son left. He is my baby but it is the not knowing. I am a Navy brat and I looked forward to the mailman my whole childhood and married into the the Navy world. So nothing new I just thought I was better prepared for this and found out NOPE I'm not.