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

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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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Japan Moms

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

Members: 690
Latest Activity: Apr 29

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 Anti M on November 1, 2009 at 11:59pm: No one said you were any less of a person for worrying.

Comment by Anti M on November 1, 2009 at 11:36am: "base pay" not vase pay, sorry.

Comment by Anti M on November 1, 2009 at 11:35am: Butterfly, they can save up to 60 days before they start to lose earned days. With a letter from the command stating they have been essential and not allowed to take leave, they can keep more days longer. While there may be long stretches when they simply can't take leave, three years seems excessive. His ship must really need him? And although expensive, they make enough to afford the trip. In addition to their vase pay, Nukes get sea pay (if on a ship). Does he say why he's not be granted leave?

Comment by Anti M on November 1, 2009 at 11:29am: Daniella, yes, alcohol is served, but the Navy is also very strict about things such as taxis.He must be 21 to drink. He's an adult, he gets to decide if he goes or not, sorry, girlfriend. As for the Navy girls... I am insulted. I used to be in the Navy, and I didn't go around stealing men. These are professionals women he is working with, and he will for years. If temptation is there, it is up to him to resist it. Being controlling from a long distance is a sure way to make him less interested in getting married. Show you trust him to make the right decisions, no matter if he attends or not.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on October 31, 2009 at 8:51pm: They get 30 days of leave a year. Some of the sailors that were sent to Japan for 3 years this past April are coming home at Christmas, so not sure why you son hasn't been home.

Comment by T-Lynn on October 30, 2009 at 3:15pm: Hi All :)
I'm going to be off the site for a couple of days. Much going on here.
1st. Mom will be 89 on Halloween. So busy with pies - cakes and cookies and then trick or treaters.
2nd. My mother was just told today - she has a non agressive form of cancer in the uterus. She is seeing a speicalist on November 4th and we will know then what will take place. She is in good spritis. ( No pun for the holiday)
3rd - I'm going to need a day of rest after all my crank duty. So I'll talk again on Monday - by then I should have great gossip from Mom's birthday.
Catch a falling Autumn leaf on Halloween night- and prosperity will come to your home all year long :) Good luck catching a Leaf! And wishing you a very Happy Halloween Hugs!! TLynn

Comment by T-Lynn on October 30, 2009 at 3:08pm: Carol, Thank you!!!! My sailor will love this. TLynn

Comment by Anti M on October 28, 2009 at 6:40pm: Any jar which might break should also be in a plastic bag, well sealed. I had a friend who sent jars and bottles with just paper wrapped around them. The post office handed me my box in a trash bag, the bottles had broken and soaked the box. Ick!

Comment by Kim on October 28, 2009 at 6:06pm: T-Lynn, fall is my favorite season also. I have mailed my son homemade jam. Wrap it well (I used newspapers) and pack it tight. He traveled back to Japan last year with several jars in his bag. I wrapped them for him but I don't think they where that tight in his bag. He gave one to his chief.

Comment by Anti M on October 28, 2009 at 1:52pm: Not what I meant, T-Lynn, sorry for the confusion. I meant you could ask them if they carry apple butter in case you can't send it easily. He could pick it up himself.