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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Knit for the Navy
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A group for those who knit or crochet that would like to blanket our sailors with a touch of home. Our goal is to blanket the entire Navy.
Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/knitforthenavy
Location: email address: knit4thenavy@gmail.com
Members: 48
Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023
After I receive the blanket/afghan, they will be collected and distributed to the ship of the month. Look for pictures of the finished blankets/afghans posted here. Any questions or suggestions can be sent to me or posted on our message board here. Thank you all for your help.
Due to the HUGE cost of shipping blankets, I am very sad to say that I can no longer accept blankets to mail to the ships. I hope that everyone will continue to enjoy the group and come together for friendship and support. Thank you so much everyone who make blankets for our sailors. I know that they appreciated them.
Discussion Forum
OK! I'm new to knit4thenavy.
Started by Diane. Last reply by JMill'smom (Tammy) Mar 4, 2012. 8 Replies 0 Likes
Where do i send/take them?
Started by Janetnva. Last reply by NitaSewBee Jan 23, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Likes
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Comment by lauren on December 17, 2008 at 11:16am
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ok evry1 Terri I sent off 5 quilts and it cost me $16 I wish ther was a way so I don't have to ship to you and then you to them...........any ideas guys
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ok Popeye's Mom,
Believe me for everyone that is negative there are 2 that are positive. The 15 quilts that I'm sending are because I asked my friends for help and then one day after working midnights and taking a nap I woke up to the quilts on my front porch ................don't ever be afraid to speak up girl I got your back and so will all the sailors that receive their blankets.................we are just getting started and TOGETHER we will continue.
"fair yarn and following needles"............you all rock
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ok here is my first one......yeah....i'm going to start sending the quilts today too Terri
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ok I need some help ..i thought I figured this out I was trying to add a pic and it didn't turn out
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Hey I forgot I work for a grant funded Domestic Violence Shelter I can talk to our grant writer too....maybe she will have some ideas what grants might be right for us.........
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oh yeah any label that you choose if good with me .........and i hope Paul pulls a sub for our first..............lol
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Hi guys just wondering Terri are we going to keep the orginal labels for the blankets moms make? I hope so ,,, I love the idea of fair needles....being added that was such a great ides i said it to my son when we got ready to hang up and he said well that's cool mom.( so i had to explain to him i didn''t come up with it),,,lol,Also Terri are you in need of money for all of this ?. I'm going to add the bank name to my flyer for my coffee cans the account is knit for the navy right?
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Comment by Lois C T(momma T) on December 10, 2008 at 8:52pm
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I vote for the red, white, blue ribbon, I do think where the name goes it should say by a Navy Mom
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