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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

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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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Japan Moms

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For all the Moms(and Dads) with a Sailor in Japan

Members: 688
Latest Activity: on Monday

Please, if you no longer want to be a part of N4M's consider NOT deleting your profile as everything you have ever posted will disappear when you delete it . You can leave a group but don't permanently delete your profile!

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Comment by T-Lynn on December 27, 2016 at 3:47pm: Hi

glad to hear that Blondie Jr is doing better. Wow - 5 pounds !!!!

Maggs- another Navy mom on another site had the same email sent to her too. That it was a big oops that the VERY ACTIVE - NEEDED moms got deleted. And there is now way to get any of the information back! At least you got an answer.

glad your sailor made his flight and hope many were able to hug or have contact with your sailor.

Circusgrandma you shared you had only had a few years to bond with your sailor. He is calling you and keeping contact -right? sounds like you did a great job of bonding. He needs you. And you sending packages, taking his calls at anytime - that is a bond :). Hugs

And what Kim said - only stupid questions are the ones not asked.

Blondie - my fault that there was no toast. I had set a time on Christmas Day 5PM Central.

BUT -- on Christmas Day my family was invited to have dinner at hubby's parents home. We said yes because it has been so many years of them not hosting. Well, the food was great tasting going down - BUT two hours later - headache, chills, and becoming teh BEST of friends with the bathroom started. I have never been so thankful for 3 bathrooms! I - my son - and my dil - ALL sick! Sitting on throne - holding bucket sick! At one point water was hard to hold down./Knock on wood - hubby and Riker ok. Riker refused to eat any of the food cooked by his great grandmother. My hubby has a cast iron stomach. Maybe we should have listened to Riker - he must have felt something not to eat.

I am just now drinking full glasses of water and can hold down a peanut butter sandwich.

So thanks for putting on that holiday message for us Blondie.

Hey- I'm willing to try again for New Years. anyone have a time we should have the toast?

Hope all had a great holiday hugs

Comment by DREW7062 on December 27, 2016 at 12:23pm: circusgrandma - YEP Anti M is the greatest she has helped me out soooo much and I appreciate her. Sometimes I felt like I was losing it. The folks here are awesome. Thanks all and HAPPY NEW YEAR.
DREW

Comment by Circusgrandma on December 27, 2016 at 10:28am: @Anti M Yes, that's exactly what he was trying to tell me! Thank you so much! His contract would have ended in March 2017. Makes sense now. I am so thankful to have found you all - I feel like I'm going to be so much better informed, which makes me feel more connected to my sailor. We didn't have 18 - 20 years to bond before he left, as he came to us as a 17 yr old foster son. We don't have that long established pattern of communication and relationship that I have my other kids, which has made a long distance relationship a little harder. Thanks for helping!

Comment by Anti M on December 27, 2016 at 10:15am: @Circusgrandma .... sounds like OBSERV, or obligated service. It means they need a certain amount of time on their contract to accept overseas orders, and might need to "obligate service" to extend their time to get a set of orders they want, or to bring dependents with them. There are a number of circumstances which might rerquier an OBSERV of more time.

Comment by Kim on December 27, 2016 at 9:16am: Circusgrandma, No question is ever dumb on this site. Just the opposite....Not asking would be dumb. LoL.

Comment by Kim on December 27, 2016 at 9:14am: Navyfan, that has happened to my sailor and he had to get a flight the next day. They have a phone number to call. There is always someone on watch to answer the phone. My sailor had to use an extra vacation day.

Circusgrandma, Do you mean OPSEC? That is Operations Security and there is a link to the left of this page.

Comment by Circusgrandma on December 26, 2016 at 8:12pm: I have another dumb mom question..... While skyping with my son on Christmas Eve, he used an acronym that sounded like obser, in reference to going to Japan. Does anyone know what he was really saying, and what it stands for?