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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Navy moms from Georgia.
Members: 291
Latest Activity: May 9, 2020
Discussion Forum
What area of GA do you live in?
Started by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick. Last reply by Suwigg (Mom - LS2/Italy) Sep 17, 2018. 448 Replies 1 Like
Leaving for BC 5/19/15
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Comment by Pam on December 4, 2011 at 11:55am
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Welcome ItsMeLesaT! Glad to hear that mail will be delivered to your son vickimed! Jamie still hasn't gotten his birthday box I sent on Nov. 12 and he's not even on a ship! After reading the guidelines I took all of his Christmas presents out of the huge box I had them in and put them in three separate flat rate boxes. The only thing that would not fit is the pre-lit small Christmas tree we were going to send him. Oh well, I'll save it for next year. LOL...
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Comment by ItsMeLesaT on December 3, 2011 at 7:16pm
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Checked with my son, he is the lead postal clerk on his ship! I told him DO NOT OPEN UNTIL XMAS!
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Comment by Vickimed(AECF-ET) on December 3, 2011 at 12:07am
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Well great news on son's mail. It was announced yesterday on the ship's page that Christmas came today. They pulled into port and had ocer 30 pallets (over 3000 lbs) of mail to include packages from Molly Adopt a Sailor. I mail first package out the first of Oct andhis Christmas Nov. 14th.There are a lot of happy sailors on this ship. On top of mail they also got Liberty. Hopefully I will hear from him.
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We missed the snow, darn it! My son has been in the Navy since 2007 and just re-enlisted. He is an LS3 (logistics specialist) his actual job to begin with was Postal Clerk.... But they merged with supply. I think he does several things now. Glad to have local Navy moms to talk to. I wish I had found this website sooner!
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Hi from Rome, GA. My son is aboard the USS John Paul Jones DDG53 out of San Diego.
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Comment by Brentsmom on November 30, 2011 at 9:19pm
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Thanks good to know.
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Good morning. Found the information below on the military postal service website regarding packages. I also read a little bit about size and weight of packages. If at all possible, I would use the the flat rate FPO boxes supplied by the post office.
http://hqdainet.army.mil/mpsa/
Q: What is the difference between Priority
and Parcel Post articles mailed to Military Post
Offices (MPO)?
A: In most cases Parcel Post articles weighing
over 15 pounds or measuring over 60 inches, length
and girth combined, will travel by ship from the
U.S. gateway to the military address. Priority Mail
receives air transportation from the U.S. gateway to
the location of the military address overseas.
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Comment by JerseySusan on November 28, 2011 at 11:25am
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Hi everyone. I am still in NJ visiting our daughter & the family. This is the first time I have had a chance to be on the computer. I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. I wish you all luck with the mailing of your packages. I am sure the mail with the subs are different then the ships mail when they are out. Everytime the sub made port, their mail was delivered to them. But it was very tricky, b/c there were sometimes when they wouldn't make port for weeks, so if a holiday or their birthday fell in between, they wouldn't get it until after. :( The timing of it all is not an "easy" task. I am one of the lucky & blessed parents this year, both of our sons are not deployed at the moment. But my heart goes out to all who are! <3 We will be home next weekend, so I will catch up to All later.
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He's stationed in Naples, Italy, so not on a ship. I'm going to try to get his box out by Dec. 1 so that he receives it by Christmas. We're waiting on something to come in from the motorcycle shop or I would send it tomorrow. I have sent stuff by freight before and it will take 6-8 weeks for him to get it. That's why I always send priority. Ugh!
vickimed - How awful! I will keep my fingers crossed he gets them all at once!
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Pam my son has an APO AP address. I mailed package first of Oct and he has not received it yet. Mailed Christmas Nov 14th Priority not yet also. Alot of families of ship site have said the same thing. It seems that in my case they are not getting mail and packages until they are at certain ports.
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