Welcome to
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.

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

Add an Event

**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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
PDF – 2.7 MB
PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

Latest Activity

Staci commented on Parrothdgal's group 'RCU SHIP 04 DIV 741'

9 hours ago

TravelinMom commented on Parrothdgal's group 'RCU SHIP 04 DIV 741'

11 hours ago

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…

Get Badge

Moms of IS (Intelligence Specialist) sailors.

Information

My son has found the perfect job for a teenager! When I ask him, "What are you doing?", he honestly tells me, "Sorry, Mom, I can't tell you."

Members: 194
Latest Activity: May 17, 2023

IN MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN MILITARY. THANK YOU.

Discussion Forum

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of Moms of IS (Intelligence Specialist) sailors. to add comments!

Comment by Anna on November 21, 2011 at 7:52pm: Laura,

What Mary said is so true. And the school has a way of keeping their sailors busy while on hold. They will have some odd jobs to do around the school building and barracks while they are waiting. It may not be glamorous but the Navy knows what happens with idle sailors!!!!!

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on November 21, 2011 at 4:36pm: Lol...Laura, I remember worrying about "forgetting" as well when my son came out of boot and I asked if he would remember all that about tying knots etc. A school is an introduction and brief overview of each sub specialty. Without getting too involved here they have a system set up where each sailor can go back in and review all s/he has learned. Once C school begins it's kind of like a whole new subject anyway. One of the reservists described it as A school on steroids! teehee

Stop worrying about what a sailor does while on hold. At least they are safe and you pretty well know where they are while they are in school. Everything becomes just a little more frustrating again once they are out in the fleet. Not as bad as boot camp (although I have not heard from my son now in almost 3 weeks) but certainly not as cheap nor as freely as school or duty at a stateside station. It's all good and most of them understand the lifestyle when they sign on. We must assume that by now we have raised them to take care of themselves.

Comment by Laura on November 21, 2011 at 2:40am: My son will be finishing "A" school soon. His "C" school class may be on hold for 4 months. What the heck will he be doing for all of that time?

Hopefully not forgetting everything he learned!

Comment by Laura on October 18, 2011 at 12:32am: Thank you Sara's hubby & Purplegiraffe for the insight. He has a lot to think about.

Comment by Sara on October 17, 2011 at 2:09pm: Laura - It is all dependent on what he wants to do. I am an imagery analyst but have close friends who are ground and opintel as well. Imagery is good in case he decides to get out or is forced out because that is where all of the money is in the civilian sector. Really all I have to say about imagery is it is exactly like it sounds. you look at images of various things. Ground school is probably the best for advancement speed as well as the best all source intelligence the Navy has to offer, but you have to be a more "rough" individual. All i can really say more then that about ground is you will primarily be working with marines, seabees and Specwar teams. Opintel is really just a lot of briefing and for the most part is the most boring and most filled NEC in the IS rate. Really they just follow daily reports and tell the officers what important things are going on. Strike is mainly plotting points on charts for bombs/missiles. If he is interested in a career my recommendation is ground.

Comment by purplegiraffe69 on October 17, 2011 at 1:14pm: My good friend is an Intel LCDR, and he recommended OPINTEL to my son because my son wants to go to sea , and he said "he will learn the most "All Source" intelligence."

Comment by Sara on October 17, 2011 at 8:43am: Hey Laura, my husband gets off work at 3:30 this afternoon (EST) I'll let him know you have questions and I'm sure he'll be ready to answer them!

Comment by Laura on October 16, 2011 at 11:39pm: Hi Sara's husband - My son is in "IS A" school now. How worried should I be? He plans on making the Navy his career.

Is there one specialty in IS (NEC) that is more stable than another? He is thinking about imagery.

Thank you for your help.

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on October 16, 2011 at 10:26pm: Sara, It is true. My son has missed the advancement by 1-3 pts everytime he has taken the E5 exam. About the time he enlisted there was a HUGE push to fill billets in the IS rate, and almost as soon as he signed his contract, the field closed. Competition for advancement is high, but my son loves his job and will do whatever he can to keep working in the Navy.

Comment by Sara on October 16, 2011 at 10:02pm: that was my husband that posted the information below by the way. He is currently an IS and we are very upset that after he advances in rank at the end of this month he will probably not be advancing anymore while an IS so he is hoping to cross train into a different rate.