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:
Events
**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:
**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
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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Liberal and with an Open Mind
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This is for people who would like to meet other (politically and religiously) liberal people who have a loved one in the military.
Members: 23
Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023
We are also known as the Warm & Fuzzie Obama Mamas - and are proud to support our president! Agnostic - Humanist - Atheist - Jewish - Buddhist - Democratic - Independent - Christian - Deist - searching .....all peaceful peeps are welcome!
An open mind equals an open heart which ultimately leads to world peace.
Kephen Merancis
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." ~ John F. Kennedy
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Comment by Hannah88 on January 15, 2013 at 11:06pm
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He ships 4 weeks from today. We started watching The West Wing on Netflix from the beginning this weekend. His idea. What's that quote about being able to keep your wits about you when everyone else is losing theirs? Does that go for values, too? Even in the Marines? This will be the shortest 4 weeks of my life.
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Comment by Arwen on January 6, 2013 at 2:43am
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Even back in the 80s I got in trouble for expressing Democratic leanings when I was in the Navy. I was in during the election of 1988 when the first President Bush was running, and I was harassed for supporting Gov. Michael Dukakis. I'm not exactly a shrinking violet, so I gave as good as I took, but oh boy was I outnumbered. I was told by many of my shipmates (including some in my chain of command) that if Dukakis was elected, that our paychecks would be cut, and all sorts of other crap that we still hear today. It didn't help that it was clear that I was not a fan of then-President Reagan.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on January 5, 2013 at 12:41am
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Kirsi, I messaged you my facebook link when I "friended" you here on N4M just now. Hannah, don't forget to "friend" me on facebook!
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There are a lot more liberals in the military than you might think, Hannah. My son did just fine with his Marines....he called me once and said "I had to break a Marine's heart tonight, mom..." and when I asked how..."I had to tell him Colbert is satire"....and after a minute he says "Then I had to explain what satire means"...Now he's out, he has a lot of political discussions on his fb page, and he's pretty respected by the guys he served with...
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I think it's because the extreme right and left in this country have ruined it for anyone with a rational, educated opinion. People are afraid to express their views. Even my Poolee has decided to become a "redneck" because he thinks he will fit in better, even though he has no qualms supporting all women's rights, gay rights/gay marriage etc. and he thinks Romney is an idiot. I have no idea what he will do the first time he sees a Marine (or any other branch) being sexually harrassed. It will kill him on the inside and yet he'll be able to do nothing about it, right? I am grateful every day that the majority of the people in this country voted for Obama and relieved he will be my son's commander in chief. Okay, that's enough venting from me :) If you haven't been on TexasDocMoc's FB page, you should. It's brilliant.
Hannah
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This group used to be pretty busy. I wonder why it became inactive. Any ideas?
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Message for my facebook page, and you can connect to many of these moms through my page...we're still around and kickin' butt!!
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I still lurk on N4Ms although my son is now a poolee (marine depper). heavy sigh.
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Comment by helenp on January 4, 2013 at 4:32pm
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I love the concept of this Group, but there is rarely any action here.
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Hello everyone. Long time no see! Is anyone still around?
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