This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

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

**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:

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.)

N4M Merchandise


Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.

Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.

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

Badge

Loading…
StephanieAlice

Lincoln Christmas Pillowcase project

Information

Lincoln Christmas Pillowcase project

NEEDED!!!!! Anyone who can sew or donate to sewers to make pillowcases for the sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. The project has changed hands and is now in desperate need of more cases for our sailors. ANY AND ALL help is more than appreciated

Website: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168013729891948
Location: ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
Members: 9
Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023

Ladies, as you all are probably aware by now,we have been working on the Lincoln Christmas Pillowcase project since around February of this year.
We have had a wonderful out pouring of support,some more than others, some as they were able.
And each contribution was meaningful and oh, so appreciated !
The goal of 5,000 pillowcases-one for each and every service member aboard this vessel !- has almost been reached, but unfortunately, so has the mailing date.
Bottom line...in spite of our best efforts so far,our sailorss will NOT be getting a Christmas pillowcase without YOUR help, just one more big pussh and it will be done---kind of like when you gave birth to your sailor,huh? final, hard push is the hardest,but the reward was a miracle!
Now we need you to push hard again and make another miracle happen;a smile on the face of each and every tired, dirty, achy,homesick ..son or daughter of us ALL !!!
It is sad to think of any sailor not having the love and support of letters and packages from back home, but it happens-a lot.Yet they get up every day and night, do their duty, and serve us with honor.
And they, too, need a pillowcase at Christmas. Our goal is that NO sailor does without at Christmas.
So...if you can sew,or contribute to the cost of a few more cases or for mailing expensses,contact me for instructions.If you cannot sew, you can still help! walmart sells pillowcases for about $3.00,if you take them home, wash them, and let the kids and their friends paint on them with fabric paint to personalize them, GREAT !!! if they want to cut out fabric and glue pretty pictures on them with fabric glue,GREAT!
PLEASE< PLEASE...contact your boy and girl scout troops, PTA,hunting club,Church,fellow employees, WHATEVER IT TAKES, let's make this happen!!!!
we have roughly one or two weeks left,and WE CAN STILL DO THIS !!!
Can you remember when they were little,under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning? Let's put THAT look on 5,000 faces !!!

Discussion Forum

This group does not have any discussions yet.

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of Lincoln Christmas Pillowcase project to add comments!

Comment by leftintexas (shannon's fiance) on October 30, 2010 at 1:04pm
dolly, i don't think i can do ALL of VFA-2, but I can do my sailor's shop which is QA and is ten people. I can buy the pillowcases and do the appliques/fabric paint for them. i know the special one you did is for my fiance. Let me know.
Comment by Lianne on October 30, 2010 at 2:37am
Here's what I was thinking. It'd be way too expensive for us to do as a group but if we could things donated, I was thinking of maybe including a disposable camera in each box, or one per unit/division. The cameras themselves aren't too pricy just a couple of dollars, but it's costs about $5 to develop them. The alternative is a disposable digital camera but those are $12 so that's more expensive. If we could get kodak or some company to donate the cameras, it'd be good publicity for them and great pictures for us.
Comment by Lianne on October 30, 2010 at 2:02am
Is it possible to ask companies for a donation of product or services?
Comment by Paymaster on October 29, 2010 at 10:50am
Please PM me the address I am to mail my complete pillowcases to. Thanks!
Comment by Kim (Ethan's Mom) on October 26, 2010 at 6:00am
Thanks Ladies for getting this done. I have no doubt that it will be a Christmas project and smiles on their faces is our objective.

I don't know if it's private. It shows on your page. I checked. Whereas the USS Lincoln one doesn't. So I'm not sure how private it is.
 

Members (9)

 
 
 

© 2024   Created by Navy for Moms Admin.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service