This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Latest Activity
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
N4M Merchandise
Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Badge
Think Happy Thoughts
Everyday is one day closer to you seeing him! Everyone has those up or down days and it really depends on how you handle it. If you sit in your house and cry in the dark you will be miserable! That doesn't help. You have to get out and enjoy life! Something that has helped me tremendously is praying and going to church and just letting God take care of it. He tells us not to worry, that he will take care of everything for us if we just give it too him. I'm not trying to change your mind in religion or anything. Also try and keep your self busy, I used to have a hard time with wanting to cry all the time and just missing my boyfriend like crazy but I found that doing that is only going to make you miserable and no one wants that. You have to keep your head up and keep going. Everyone tells me the key to keeping a military relationship going is independence. If you can make it through boot camp then you can do anything!
God Bless,
Abby
Views: 66
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by mollybub on
-
Thank you, Abby! I've been having better days lately too - hard nights, but I'll take what I can get, haha. We women have to be strong for our guys, as hard as that can be sometimes. But like you say, we have to stay busy and do what we can without our guys. And find peace in our religion, if we have a religion, which I do as well. Every night I pray for my fiance and for myself, and it helps so much.
-
-
Permalink Reply by Abbyy319 on
-
My boyfriend and I pray almost every night together on the phone before he has to study. It's hard but I can tell it will get easier as time goes on. What stage is your fiancé at?
-
-
-
That is so sweet, that you pray together over the phone! My fiance is still in boot camp, and he's scheduled to graduate in two weeks. In his letters, I've seen his faith grow, and it's amazing. Makes me fall even more in love with him! Haha :)
-
-
Permalink Reply by bittersweet914 on
-
This really lifted my spirit this morning. I was just sitting in class writing my SR informing him how bad and lonely I was feeling today and then I came across this and my entire attitude has changed. You are correct when you say we have some good days and some bad ones and it depends on how we handle them. I was feeling like crying, but I decided to smile beacuse I know that in due ime I will be in Great Lake, IL in my baby arms. WE CAN DO IT LADIES!!
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
~ Napoleon Hill -
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
