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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.

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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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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 Melissa (Tucson) on January 12, 2009 at 2:53am: Karen, you and I are just about in the same boat....lol. My first holiday without my only son. The ship cut off all communication so I didn't even get to talk to him on at Christmas. This is Matt's first deployment and we just celebrated the halfway mark! Everyday is one day closer to homecoming.....:)

Comment by Karen (KC's mom) on January 12, 2009 at 2:27am: Just dropping in to say Hello and hope everybody had a good holiday season. This was the first time my one & only son was away during the holidays. I was able to talk with him over the phone at Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve other than that we are able to communicate by email if the system isn't down or if my son isn't to busy to write. First deployment is tough! Almost to the halfway mark though. One more day closer to homecoming!

Comment by Melissa (Tucson) on January 3, 2009 at 1:44pm: You all have great ideas of what to do in our SPARE time. Of course, being on disability I have a lot of spare time. I had to quit working in 2007 and am doing a lot of computer work, love geneology so I'm scanning all the old family pictures and inserting them into my geneology software for all the family to enjoy. We also have a one year old granddaughter we love to babysit. Hubby and I have her spoiled to the hilt, but we figure that's what we're here for!
I got my new camera for Christmas and I love the picture a day idea. The local travel guide picked up one of my pictures that I had posted online so I'm feeling pretty talented about now....lol Living in Tucson gives us the opportunity to garden year around. Laura I don't know if you're interested in gardening but it sure keeps me busy. Of course I move at a pretty slow pace, so the rest of you can probably do twice as much in the same about of time...lol

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Comment by Karen (KC's mom) on November 25, 2008 at 8:16pm: glitter-graphics.com

Comment by abbyblue on November 19, 2008 at 9:49am: bring that boy home where he belongs,sing a song for the road is long sing a song for that boy sailing along a way from my lonely song i sing and pray the sea brings that boy to me from the longing sea,i miss mine so much be strong the words above are just something comes out of head when i get lonely

Comment by kim ann on November 9, 2008 at 1:18am: SOOoooo true! And we thought just being a mother was tough work! (Which of COURSE it is!) :0}

Comment by carols_kitchen on November 1, 2008 at 11:15pm: Just want to thank 2 new friends I met through this site. We had lunch together today--you would have never known we had just met outside the restaurant door! We laughed, we cried, then we laughed some more. This is my second experience of meeting a Navy Mom--and it is outstanding!!!
Still have an empty nest, but it feels much more full with new friends. Thank you NavyforMoms.

Comment by Paulette,Rob's Mom on October 31, 2008 at 11:38am: Debbie-stress-eater anonymous sounds like a good idea. Rob called last night, and he will not be able to get away for Thanksgiving. He has duty on that Friday. He is in Groton at BESS and had hoped to meet us in Pittsburgh for turkey day but no luck. He will get to be home for Christmas which will be great. But this is the first holiday that we al;l wont be together and I know what you mean about missing the one that is not there. I am trying to look at this a a dry run for when he is deployed for long periods of time but boy do you ever get use to it. Usually I am running around trying to make sure everything is decorated and spotless and I don't care if anything gets done. Hopefully I can get moving before Christmas, which I know I will and be driving everyone else nuts to get it just right for when he does come home.
Does anyone know waht the bases do if anything for the sailors that can't or don't get home for the holidays. I have visions of Rob eating turkey TV dinner for Thanksgiving. or just pb&j sandwiches. Can you send food in dry ice by fed-ex. Boy am I getting bad. Oh well back to work.

Comment by Melissa (Tucson) on October 31, 2008 at 12:21am: A young man wrote his mom and told her about a boy that gets no mail AT ALL in bootcamp. On top of that, the guys make fun of him.

Thought you guys might want to know...

SR Rodriquez, D.
DIV 020 Ship 09
Recruit Training Command
3415 Sailor Drive
Great Lakes, IL 60088

Thank you!