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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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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

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

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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Graduation Info
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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy Speak

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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 November 24, 2016 at 2:08pm: Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!

Comment by tysmom on November 21, 2016 at 11:06pm: We used FB messenger when he stopped in Japan. That should work and SKYPE. He is going to get a phone, he needs a new one anyway. Has a house spoken for, complete with a maid. And most important a "mom" bedroom!!!

We can repeat our stories as many times as we want. I had friends at work and we all had three stories to tell that shift/weekend when we worked and we could tell those stories as many times as we wanted to that night! Besides I may forget and ask the same questions over!

Comment by Mindy4boys (ship 04 Div 806) on November 21, 2016 at 8:14pm: Tysmom I think it's because you'd have to go through customs.

Comment by Tx Mom of Far Away Nuke on November 21, 2016 at 5:34pm: tysmom and middlemom: To use the Facebook Messenger ap both you and your son to have a Facebook account to log into. I used my Facebook account to log into Skype also.

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Comment by Tx Mom of Far Away Nuke on November 21, 2016 at 5:32pm: tysmom and middlemom: If I repeat anything, please forgive me. There are 3 things I remember that helped my son contact me for minimum cost. The first was a Guam cell phone purchased while suspending the US cell phone indefinitely. The 2nd thing was Skype. They do have internet in Guam. Thank goodness! And the 3rd was the facebook messenger ap for my IPhone. That's how I receive calls from my son when he is in exotic places that still have wifi (like Japan). I do not have an international cell phone plan. My son has been in Guam about a year now and I haven't had a single international call expense except for maybe the first month he was there before he got a Guam cell phone plan. Good luck!

Comment by tysmom on November 21, 2016 at 5:28pm: Mindy, if you do not leave the airport in Japan, why do you need a passport?

Comment by tysmom on November 21, 2016 at 5:27pm: Hi all,

My son will also be arriving in Guam in December. He spent the last 4 years in Hawaii. We were there for departures and homecomings. It was great. This time he has shore duty and I plan to visit along with other family members at various times. I will share what I know about sub life if you want to know something. Never have been to Guam, did not know much about it. I went to the Navy site about the base in Guam, was interesting. LOTS of history!!!

Yes it is a looong ways away from the mainland!!! That is hard and how to communicate!!! I heard SKYPE was good, costs to text(?), and /or talk(?).....Any advice????

Comment by middlemom on November 21, 2016 at 3:31pm: Hello all. My son will be arriving in Guam in December. I am so happy to have found this group.. Hopefully some of you can help me with some questions.

Comment by Mindy4boys (ship 04 Div 806) on November 16, 2016 at 12:17am: We went to Guam in Dec of 2014. We went through Hawaii rather than Japan. If you get the chance to go to Guam it's a beautiful island! Staying at the Navy Lodge was cheap and we got to stay in one of their houses on base that was like brand new. It was completely furnished and had a washer and dryer too. Other than that there are lots of hotels right on the beach.