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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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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

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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MINNESOTA NAVY FAMILY

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GROUP FOR FAMILIES OF MINNESOTA NAVY MEMBERS

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Comment by JJ on January 29, 2013 at 1:12am: I just found out via Ted, that Eric Robert was flying in!!! I will let you know when I find out. Does that sound like something that we moms have heard before??!! LOL

Comment by carol on January 29, 2013 at 12:36am: Wow, great for them. I loved living in Colorado Springs. Where in the Springs? Some day I should tell you about our first time with Castle Rock.

Comment by JJ on January 29, 2013 at 12:03am: Just because Nathan is saying "good-bye" to the Navy doesn't get you off the hook! Once a Navy Mom, ALWAYS a Navy Mom! Thank you Nathan!

I got a call from Eric Robert tonight. He will be on a plane to check out his NEW duty in Colorado Springs. Big changes for him, but great for Mom and Dad. We will be able to hit 2 birds with one trip! Our oldest, Patrick and his family, live in Castle Rock, CO just a few miles from Colorado Springs. 17 hours away and we can drive that easily in a day and a half....Leave he at 6:00 a.m. and be there the next afternoon!! Works for me!! LOL These long trips to The Islands or half way across the world are getting a bit too much for us. I like this much better.

Comment by 2sonmom on January 28, 2013 at 11:02pm: I echo carol. Thank you Lauritz for sharing his cute and clever note.

Comment by carol on January 28, 2013 at 10:25pm: Thank you Nathan! What a cute (may I call it that) letter. Thanks for sharing it with us. We think that our son is re-enlisting. Waiting to hear from him.

Comment by 2sonmom on January 28, 2013 at 10:11pm: God Bless Nathan! Tell him thank you from me. I'm grateful to him for his commitment, sacrifices, hard work and time he gave serving in the United States Navy.

Comment by 2sonmom on January 25, 2013 at 6:18pm: Hello fellow Minnesotans! Our son is on a ship in the middle east presently. God Bless everyone in our United States Armed Forces!

Comment by carol on January 25, 2013 at 12:15pm: NavyMomx3, glad to hear you are doing well.

Can you say which Strike group he is with?

Our sailor is out also. Had a brief email from his this week. He is deciding if he should re-enlist for another 2. Would have land duty then.

Comment by NavyMomx3 on January 24, 2013 at 11:32pm: Enjoy your visit to Goose Creek, Linda. When my sailor was stationed there, he said it felt colder in SC than in MN because the weather in SC is so damp. He said he was chilled to the bones.

I am recuperating from my surgery; saw the surgeon yesterday and he said everything is looking good!

I see my sailor posted on FB today. Brief one word comment. He's deployed and out in a sub somewhere out there. Gone for several months...........