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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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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 NevadaSierra on July 15, 2009 at 5:12am: While I have not been here in a while - I was laid off last Friday, and need prayers for the future. Just getting through this week too!~s

Comment by carols_kitchen on July 10, 2009 at 4:35pm: Wendy--like the bit about the RV! Wait until they finish boot camp and get to A school. We have driven or flown in to see our sailor 5 times, which included Columbus Day, Thanksgiving to feed 13 on base, Easter with a budget rental to take furniture for apartment, a trip to take flowers for the wedding and then the wedding. Next up is Power School graduation.

Comment by Paymaster on July 8, 2009 at 3:13pm: I am so jealous!!! Grandkids for the weekend!!! Mine our in Virginia and I'm in California.

As to Plebe summer, it is hard when they first go away that first summer. Just to share with you, answer all your phone calls during the next few weeks. Sometimes the plebes find a phone that is not locked up and they will call home collect. So don't think its that telemarketer calling when you see a phone number pop up on your phone. Also don't hang up right away, when they call collect there is a second or two delay for the message. When ours was a plebe we had to re-train our youngest daughter to not hang up when she answered the call and thought it was a telemarketered.

Sometimes it helps to write down all the things you want to tell them and can't. It just helps putting it in writing. You may or may not give it to them, but it helps to get it out sometimes.

Good luck to you, you are on the first hill of the rollercoaster ride. Hang on, its quite the ride.

Comment by Paymaster on July 4, 2009 at 2:19pm: Happy 4th to all. Mine made it home stateside last night. We got to talk with him, he sounded tried. But he said he was glad to be home with his wife and two little girls. He said eventho he was beat from the flight from Afghanistan he was taking the girls up to the park last night to watch the fireworks in Chesapeake.

He said it was the greatest thing to be able to take a long hot shower and not have the water smell. He also said having a cold beer and a steak (beef no goat or lamb) was pretty good too!

Hope you all get to hear from your sailors today! Happy fourth.

Comment by Karen (KC's mom) on July 2, 2009 at 5:10pm: My thoughts & prayers go out to the families of both of these Sailors we lost.

Comment by Karen (KC's mom) on July 2, 2009 at 5:06pm: This was posted over on Facebook:

Body thought to be sailor found in river

The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Jul 2, 2009 13:12:52 EDT

LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. — A body recovered from the upper Hudson River has been tentatively identified as the remains of a Navy sailor who disappeared swimming in the treacherous, rain-swollen waters.

Warren County Sheriff Bud York says the body found Thursday morning is believed to be that of 20-year-old Jesse Lyon of Soda Springs, Idaho. He says an autopsy will officially determine the identity and cause of death.

The body was found under a bridge about 2 miles south of where Lyons disappeared Sunday afternoon while swimming across the river with a group of other sailors assigned to the Navy's nuclear power training site near Saratoga Springs.

Officials say the currents along that stretch of river 45 miles north of Albany have gotten stronger because of persistent rain in recent weeks.

Comment by Paymaster on June 28, 2009 at 11:12am: Brenda....I don't know "Here" is, but we will be at 105 today here in Sacramento, CA. Of course I choose today to invite the other Navy mom's in the area to come over to a get together. Guess I will turn on the air early and close the house up.

Jody

Comment by Paymaster on June 23, 2009 at 3:59pm: Glad we all have each other to have our hissy fists! I had mine last night in the car and my girlfriend had to listen to be all the way home, thank god our communte is only 20 minutes.

My recommendation is to invest in water proof make-up, because there are lots (and I means lots) more times that you will be crying during your childs time in the Navy (and life).

Jody

Comment by Paymaster on June 20, 2009 at 1:15pm: Joni....As you stated, this is his pride and joy. He's just like his father when it comes to his jeep! Whether it runs or not they always have a jeep!

They have a truck and car also, and they will be driving those.

Jody

Comment by Paymaster on June 19, 2009 at 11:31pm: Joni...That would be a great idea, but this vehicle is a Jeep that is currently not running. So we need to use a carrier.

Jody