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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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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

Events

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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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
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 Anti M on July 20, 2016 at 9:40am: @coolleigh ... the ombudsman is a volunteer spouse. They receive training, and work with the ship/command to provide official information about what is going on, help new spouses with information about resources, and much more. If there is something to be known, they know it, from where to ask about benefits, to how to get in touch with deployed sailors during emergencies (Red Cross).

There may or may not be wifi in every port. Wifi is common worldwide, so probably. Free? Maybe.

Also, have you memorized his SSN yet? You'll need it at some point.

Comment by Anti M on July 20, 2016 at 9:36am: Blondie, sending love and light for everyone.

Comment by Kim on July 20, 2016 at 9:34am: Cooleigh, I have told this story a few times:

My son was on a ship deployed on the other side of the world. There was a 'man overboard'. The captain contacted the Ombudsman and had them email everyone on their list to tell them that there was a 'man overboard' and it was not their sailor. It was a visiting sailor who was not part of the crew. The procedure is to discontinue all outside communication during the search. We were informed that it would be several days before we would receive an email from our sailors and not to worry. Several days later a mom posted on Navyformoms that it was her son. They were contacted within hours of it happening and the navy kept in touch throughout the search. It was not a happy ending, but we were able to 'attend' the funeral by watching the webcam. A mom that I knew on another N4M site lived near the town and attended the funeral for all of us.

The Ombudsman can contact your sailor in emergencies and can pass information from the captain in emergencies. Otherwise, "NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS", they will find you quickly if there is bad news. Don't worry! I hope this helps.

Comment by Kim on July 20, 2016 at 9:22am: Saying Prayers Blondie.

Comment by scully_the_skeptic on July 19, 2016 at 10:57pm: My son is stationed in Yokosuka & assigned to a cruiser - he uses whatsapp & FaceTime to communicate. He ended up getting a phone over there. Also we use email - his mil email. Whatsapp is free text & phone - great reception. ;)

Comment by coolleigh11 on July 19, 2016 at 10:54pm: Will there be wifi at all ports ?

Comment by coolleigh11 on July 19, 2016 at 10:54pm: What type of information could I find out from the ombudsman?

Comment by 2tymeNavyMom on July 19, 2016 at 10:10pm: I'll add you will usually find out they are coming into port just 24 hours before they do for Security reasons.
Does the ship have a Facebook page? If it does you should join it and also find out who your ombudsman is.

Comment by Anti M on July 19, 2016 at 8:25pm: He will have a .mil email address. These are on ship computers, shared by the crew, so his access may be limited. Emails are screened. He may have limited access to the internet, such as FB, depending on the ship. He can pay to use the satellite phone, if his ship has one. There are usually lines for that and it is expensive. He can skype when he is in port. Do not expect to use his phone in port, the roaming charges are killer. And then there are letters, old fashioned snail mail.

Comment by coolleigh11 on July 19, 2016 at 1:28pm: My husband is about to go on his first deployment. I'm all over the place. What should I expect ? How will we be able to communicate ?