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Navy For Moms

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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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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Seeking all Michigan Moms!!!!!!!! Got a question... want to chat with others from Michigan.. Moms, then join us!!!!!

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!

Members: 316
Latest Activity: Apr 11

Welcome come on in start a discussion, ask questions and answer a few too!!!!!!!

HAVE FUN !!!!!!

RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:

In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.

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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on January 10, 2010 at 7:00pm: My daughter Alicia returned to Sault Ste Marie today after church. For the 5 hour trip she said the roads were fine except for the wind advisory in Northern MI and the UP. They were excorting about 20 vehicles at a time over the Mackinac Bridge - cars in the inside lane over the grate (she usually avoids that) and going max of 25 mph--she arrived safely back to her place.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on January 9, 2010 at 9:50am: We got about 5" Thursday and they weren't kidding when they said they were going to send out the road crews sparingly. I chose the slowest route to school yesterday and we crawled part of the way....never accelerating on a long stretch of road. Thomas was late to school and I was late to work, but arrived safely. Doubt they'll plow our subdivision at all.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on January 3, 2010 at 9:33pm: Thanks for the updates Ruth VH, we will continue to keep everyone in our prayers.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on January 3, 2010 at 9:30am: Connie - glad you were able to spend 4 days together. Any time is a treasured time;)

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on December 29, 2009 at 3:04pm: Annette - thanks for all the info on Erick. I find it very interesting to hear about the different sailors and rates and how the processes go for our sons/daughters. Katie is in Japan and with daylight savings time she is 14 hours ahead of us. When she is in port, her 'shift' starts at 7 am and can go until 4 or 5 or.....Katie did 4 days of RAP while she was here for Christmas. They had her speak to one of the DEP gathers about BC, among other things.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on December 27, 2009 at 5:52pm: Annette - where is Erick stationed? Katie is a DC on the USS Essex out of Sasebo. She was able to be here for Christmas and was to report on Monday, but her flight was delayed from Detroit to Chicago and then delayed again en route to Tokyo. Katie and other sailors missed their connecting flight to Fukuoka. United only has 1 at 5:45 pm local time each day - so they put them up in a hotel, she called her 1st officer to let him know the situation. Katie says she is not alone, another flight also missed their connection.

Comment by Paulette,Rob's Mom on December 25, 2009 at 10:29am: Merry Christmas all. ruth how wonderful for you and Chris/ What a wonderful young man you have there.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on December 25, 2009 at 9:25am: We are thankful we didn't get much of the freezing rain they were predicting..this AM it is gloomy and raining here at my Mom's in Lansing. Merry Christmas

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on December 24, 2009 at 4:47pm

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on December 21, 2009 at 9:30pm: Katie and Alicia plan on leaving Sault Ste Marie the morining of December 23rd. Tonight they are out celebrating Katie's 20th birthday and Alicia has to work on the 22nd, otherwise they would leave tomorrow. I'll give them a call to see if it would be better to leave the 22nd or wait until the 23rd. Thanks for the 'heads up' ;)