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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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 Melissa mom of Chip on January 22, 2009 at 2:52pm: I also would be interested in what Marty's Mom makes. Please let me know the website so that I can look at the items also.
Thanks.

Comment by Anti M on January 19, 2009 at 6:54pm: Many of the Japanese people speak some English. It is a mandatory subject in junior high. A few phrase such as yes, thank you, and good morning go a long, long way.

Comment by Anti M on January 19, 2009 at 4:25pm: Hey, RM, you never know when the opportunity to travel will come up. I thought I wasn't going overseas again and let my passport slide ... then here comes this trip!

Maybe one day you can visit your sailor somewhere! Can't hurt to dream about it.

Comment by Anti M on January 19, 2009 at 11:52am: Get their fill of seeing the world? Oh, never! I was in Japan for a total of 12 years, two sets of my orders and two sets of hubby's orders. We've both been all over, and in two days we leave for a week in Spain (got a half-free trip). LOL, we talk about Fuji and Australia and Latvia and Greece and Italy and Scotland (although he's been to more of Europe than I have) .... everywhere we haven't been!

But home is home. Except in my case, because I never had a hometown growing up.

Comment by Anti M on January 18, 2009 at 12:04am: Debi ... I couldn't find any recent articles on the groundwater near Atsugi. Nothing factual that I'd trust as gospel. Japan is fairly polluted in some areas. In Yokosuka we drank filtered water at home, but most of the time I didn't take precautions, the Japanese treat and process their water a great deal. I was more concerned with the mold and mildew because it can get really bad very quickly in the summer. Way too much humidity. I developed asthma there, and since I never got it diagnosed and into my medical record when I was active duty, it isn't on my disability. The air pollution gets fairly awful too. Darn shame, that's one of the biggest drawbacks to the country.

Comment by Anti M on January 17, 2009 at 12:14pm: I'll look, but I have to run for a bit right now. Hubby had minor surgery yesterday and I have to go pay some attention to him!

Comment by Anti M on January 17, 2009 at 12:00pm: I found this link:

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50334

According to the article, the incinerator was closed in 2001.

Comment by Anti M on January 15, 2009 at 2:30pm: LOL, the no shoes is indoors only! Going barefoot outdoors is a truly foreign idea to the Japanese. We wore a lot of flip-flops in the summer. It does get chilly/cold in the winter. We even had snow one year.

Bikes... I wore a helmet and gloves, and you have to register them on base. There's a lot of bike theft, which is odd, the Japanese are very honest to a fault... except for bikes and umbrellas. And riding in traffic is scary, but you get used to it. My hubby once got pulled over by security on base because he was "speeding" on his bike! They told him if he was outpacing the cars, he was exceeding the speed limit!

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on January 15, 2009 at 8:42am: Housing on base - used to have a one year wait. Don't know if that has improved or not. We loved living off base and when our time came to move on to base, we said...no Thanks!

Also space is a premium in Japan but we lived out on the bay in a old fishing village and we had a "western" style home that was two stories and almost as big as any house we lived in - in the US. It did not have a furnace but we learned how to use kerosene heaters...used to be a great way to heat up the sake' at night!

Comment by Anti M on January 14, 2009 at 10:07pm: Yokosuka, Sandy? On base housing has a fairly lengthy wait list. There are apartment towers, some duplexes and houses. I don't know if the old housing units off base are still open in Negishi and um, the other one I can't recall the name of, probably not.

Japanese rentals ... there's houses or apartments, and the base has a list of house agents who have been certified as non-discriminatory. Some people really take to living offbase, others can't adjust to the differences. Perhaps there are newer apartments now that have things like, oh, central heat. I didn't mind sleeping on the futon on the tatami mats and taking off my shoes, kerosene heaters weren't a problem, and we biked to base so parking wasn't an issue. It is more difficult with children, but they adapt well.