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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: Apr 3

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 July 23, 2009 at 11:40am: $700 for Japan is dirt cheap... I was used to $1200+ over ten years ago.

Space A from Japan? First come first served, after the military members with orders, the military members on emergency leave, and so on ... I can find the link. When I was a kid, we spent nine days in the Yokota terminal trying to get out. that was during Vietnam, but still, space A is only if you have time to burn. Plus how close are you to a base? One with MAC flights?

Comment by T-Lynn on July 23, 2009 at 10:20am: Brandy,
Thanks for knowing I was kidding. Your son will be showing you off - that HIS mom made the long trip to be with him. Please share the event when it happens. Anit M thank you too for the currency converter. My older son IS going to Japan during Christmas to be with his brother.. My oldest keeps saying he wants to take a n empty suitcase to FILL with stuff from Japan. Isn't it easier/cheaper to mail ? TLynn

Comment by Kim on July 23, 2009 at 10:18am: The best bargains I found was in the used shops. The bakeries where to dye for. I don't know what they use in their whip cream but it is better than I have ever tasted. (and I make my own) Look into getting a credit card that does not charge a foreign exchange fee. I have seen it as high as 5%. The fee is not charged on base. My husband has a Capital One visa with no foreign exchange fees but they have an annual fee. Let me know if anyone finds one with neither fees because I travel to Canada twice a year.

Comment by Anti M on July 23, 2009 at 9:55am: Brandy, you should be able to get a few souvenirs on base. The big Fleet Exchange is long gone, but I am sure the new Main Exchange would have some nice things.

The little stationary stores have fun things, and the 100 Yen Shop is a hoot. Do go through the big department stores even if you aren't buying, I loved the stuff they carried. You can find bargains, you just have to know where to look.

Comment by Anti M on July 23, 2009 at 9:35am: Navy dad... I'm not going to Japan anytime soon, I used to live there. For 12 years. Yes, the dollar is down, but it was down then too... I saw it under 100 yen, which is where it is now. Yes, prices a quite high, but they always have been. Yep, save the pennies!

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Comment by Anti M on July 22, 2009 at 11:43pm: Ha, T-Lynn, most of the sailors I knew, including myself, were ardent shoppers. My hubby would come back from Thailand and Korea with heaps and heaps of stuff.

Comment by T-Lynn on July 22, 2009 at 9:17pm: What a possible sight in Japan - a Navy Mom dragging her sailor along on a shopping spree. His thoughts as shopping: " I sure hope none of my shipmates see me." Just tell him you will buy him something special! TLynn

Comment by Anti M on July 22, 2009 at 7:37pm: We didn't bother with a couch for years. When we finally got one, we had to remove the feet so it could rest on the tatami. I had a lot of Japanese pieces, they make such cute things!

Comment by Anti M on July 22, 2009 at 4:47pm: The Japanese are notoriously honest ... except when it comes to bikes and umbrellas. Those are fair game apparently. I had my bike stolen on base, I thought I had clicked the lock, but it didnt' catch. sailors will steal any bike that is left unlocked. Nothing new about that.

I loved living offbase. I didn't mind sleeping on the floor, or the kerosene heaters, or the big spiders... it was an adventure and it wasn't the barracks. I had bad luck with roommates and wanted my own place. When I got married, we were on the list for the Tower Apartments, but i hated them. The walls were thin and the elevators smelled like pee. Why would I want to live crammed in with families when I had a nice little house on a hillside?

Comment by T-Lynn on July 22, 2009 at 11:11am: Good Mroning,
Having a car or renting an apartment in Japan - is not sounding fun. My sailor said there was no way he was living off base. Well, - he wants his money and not spend extra when he said the Navy provides. But a bike sounds like a good idea. At least for nice weather. Sharing some news. On the Illinois N4 M site - a Meet and Greet is being created. The ladies are working hard to get a date and place established. I'll share when I know more. Have a good day. Off to crank duty and I really have it today. TLynn