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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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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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AECF - FCs and ETs

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For families that have a loved one serving the Navy as an FC or an ET. This is the place to share and learn more about their jobs and schools. For subs - look for the SECF group.

Members: 836
Latest Activity: Aug 6, 2024

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Comment by NavyMomFHAL18 on December 6, 2017 at 9:05pm: Hi All- My son is currently in DEPS. He was sworn in on 11/20/17. I am just trying to figure out where is A School will be. His contract says that he enlisted for Advanced Electronics Field- Advanced Electronics Computer Field (AEF/AECF 6 YO) Program, Active Duty Date 5/23/18. He keeps saying that he will go to A school in Virginia Beach. Everything that I have come across looks like his A school is at Great Lakes. Does anyone have any thoughts on this. Is there just one school for this school? I have not seen anything about Virginia Beach, so is that even an option?

Comment by Ima on November 14, 2017 at 5:29pm: Thanks Anti M!!!

Comment by Anti M on November 5, 2017 at 10:04pm: I do get the warning, but the sites are safe. I hit advanced and tell my laptop to proceed. Very common with military sites.

Comment by Allison on October 26, 2017 at 5:03pm: As long as it's the official site, say the link AntiM posted or you know for sure it's the right web address, it's fine, just continue. I get that message a lot on military sites.

Comment by Ima on October 26, 2017 at 4:47pm: Anti M, every time I click on the cool.navy.mil links, I get a warning message about it being an unsafe site. Does this happen to you or to anyone else out there???

Comment by Bandmom on October 23, 2017 at 1:26pm: Had a nice phone call with my son this weekend. He has been made "TSC Color Guard Captain". He is so happy. He will be able to come home for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. He is loving the Navy, and very excited for the future.

Comment by Anti M on October 23, 2017 at 8:55am: AEGIS is missiles, there are a few other systems also. The FCs maintain and operate the systems which fire them. I don't know the nicknames for each system, but there are only so many. Look at page 6 and 7 of this link to see what and where they might train on:

https://www.cool.navy.mil/usn/LaDR/fc_e1_e9.pdf

Also, here is a link about AEGIS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defense_System

Comment by haha2410 on October 18, 2017 at 8:26am: Aegis is a type of gun the FC shoot - my sailor just went thru all the names but don't ask me there names

Comment by Happyone00 on October 17, 2017 at 3:22pm: Aidersmom, What is Aegis? I'm just curious. My son is currently on hold for ATT, pre FC A school. LOL...all these acronyms!

Comment by O'smom on October 11, 2017 at 1:23pm: Hi Moms just got back from PIR. It was so good to see my son. He lost 25 lbs and has grown up. He seems very happy. We text everyday it makes it easier to be apart. I cant wait until Dec. he gets leave for Christmas. Yay