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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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Guam Moms

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For Moms with sailors in Guam

Members: 160
Latest Activity: Apr 20, 2023

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Comment by tysmom on September 10, 2018 at 7:51am: Good morning!

Guam is really getting hit with typhoon Mangkhut. Electric out.

Navy ships all your stuff there, Took 3-4 weeks and car etc was there. BIG ruts in roads!!!

Probably can find roommate when he gets there.Will he be on shore duty or assigned to a boat?

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on September 9, 2018 at 7:37pm: Thank you both!

Comment by nurserenee on September 9, 2018 at 5:04pm: My son shipped his Jeep over there and is so glad. He will sell it to someone there before he returns home.

Comment by naturegirl1 on September 9, 2018 at 4:45pm: My ds has been in Guam two years. It took him 6 months to get his car. He does not plan on bringing it back. They usually loan their cars out to each other while on deployment. He has an apartment with a roommate in the Tamuning area , and loves it there. He can walk to the beach after work , and go snorkeling.

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on September 9, 2018 at 12:26pm: Hi All,

My son will be assigned to Guam starting in a few months. Do you recommend shipping his car, or buying one once there?

Also - He will be getting an apartment - any suggestions as to where to look?

Thank you for any advice. He has been on the east coast for 5 years.

Comment by ArchyMom on April 5, 2018 at 3:01pm: Son in C School, then Guam. Probably by then I'll have lots of questions.

Comment by rjh on March 5, 2018 at 3:49pm: My daughter is in Guam, it's been almost a year. The post office will discount one of the flatrate priority mail boxes if it is being shipped to a FPO address (which was the address I believe my daughter gave me).

Comment by Tx Mom of Far Away Nuke on March 5, 2018 at 1:30pm: My son suspended his USA cell phone service while serving in Guam. Now that he will be briefly stateside, he has suspended Guam cell phone service and reactivated his USA cell phone service. I think the government requires the phone service providers to work with military personnel that are deployed. Not like when my mother died after getting a brand new phone and 2 year service contract and my father was required to keep paying for her phone that no one was using.

My son got a PO box in Guam until he found a permanent residence. It isn't international mail rates because Guam is a US territory.

Guam takes some getting used to but it is manageable.

:)

Comment by wisconsinmom on March 5, 2018 at 1:24pm: Omce my son had an address I had no problem mailing boxes to him. I would wait and see what your son needs once he gets there. My home phone is with Spectrum and we could call from our home phone to his cell phone free. Otherwise we talked using messenger. He will want to get a phone from the Guam phone company GTA

Comment by julieanns on March 2, 2018 at 7:30pm: Hi ladies!

I'm new to this particular group. My son just informed me that following A school grad he will be in Guam. Does anyone have any tips on mailing items to him?