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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

Events

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

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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.

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Latest Activity: Aug 6, 2024

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Comment by Anti M on February 1, 2013 at 2:59pm: Deployment homecoming dates have been shifted because spouses posted the date too often on FB! Not precisely an extension, but I can imagine what an uproar that caused.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on February 1, 2013 at 2:35pm: Deployments lengths can vary depending on where they are home ported. Japan is forward deployed so their deployments are not as long but they are more frequent. East coast sailors have longer deployments but our son is in San Diego now and this deployment is a 10 month one.

There is also a domino effect to deployments, if a ship is in the yards for maintenance or repairs and due to be completed at a certain date and it's not - it will effect the rest of the fleet and may keep a ship out longer as a result.

Then their are world events that may take place that also could send a ship out sooner or leave them on deployment longer than planned.

And then with the impact on the DOD budget, we are working with less ships so everyone is doing more ...much like our civilian lives!

Comment by Vickyrun on February 1, 2013 at 12:54pm: Good Morning, TGIF! Wear Red Today!

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Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on January 31, 2013 at 1:35pm: I meant to say "how long will sailors be deployed now?"

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on January 31, 2013 at 1:32pm: Thank you ladies for the info!! By the way. I figured out that I was putting .mill at the end of the email instead of .mil

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on January 31, 2013 at 1:20pm: Does anyone know about the Navy's changes in deployment? How are they out at sea? My son's ship received orders before the changes.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on January 29, 2013 at 10:58pm: Good info Tiff so many bases have long waiting list.

Comment by Tiff(Ship 11 Div 057) on January 27, 2013 at 9:00pm: I have called for base housing and my husband is going up there tomorrow or Tuesday to get our house. They dont have a waiting list right now they have several houses available. So once he does his packet and the stuff he needs to do then he goes to housing and gets the house that day or the next. Since they have houses right now then it shouldn't take but a day to get one.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on January 27, 2013 at 7:16pm: Generally there is a waiting list to get base housing, any recent families at GL that can help Michelle with tat question?

Comment by Michelle on January 26, 2013 at 12:59pm: Thanks ladies! So we found out that in order for him to live ashore one of us needs to have a driver's license (which neither one of us has yet) but does anyone know if we need a driver's license in order for me and my daughter to get a house on base, without my husband living with us?