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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

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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.

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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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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Anyone with Sailors/Soldiers/Marines in War Zones and Combat Areas

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For parents and loved ones of deployed and deploying military personnel...Aghanistan/Iraq and any and all war zones. Please introduce yourself on the main comment page.

Members: 116
Latest Activity: Jul 14, 2020

Anderson Hall is in San Antonio, on the campus of Fort Sam Houston...the place where future corpsman will learn their trade.

"Doc" Christopher Anderson served with Marine 1/6.

(He also went to Basic and to FMTB with my son. TDM)

Corpsmen on the job in Afghanistan:

Helpful Links:

National Resource Directory

The National Resource Directory (NRD) is a website which connects wounded warriors, service members, Veterans, and their families with those who support them.

It provides access to services and resources at the national, state and local levels to support recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration.

Real Warriors The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative launched by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their families.

Absentee Voting Link Get info here on registering to vote and absentee voting.

Navy Individual Augmentee Information "IA"

Ombudsman Registry Find your sailor's unit and contact information

Seabee Info Web site Answers to many questions about deployment, etc even if your sailor is not a Seabee.

Fleet and Family Deployment Navy Facebook

Online Program Helps Military Vote Absentee

Guardian Angels for Soldiers Pets Facebook Page

Dogs on Deployment One-Stop Resource page for military members to turn to for advice and direction to all pet-related needs. They also are looking for fosters for pets whose owners are being deployed.

****Red Cross and Help for the Military, Emergency Notificaton Link to the Red Cross Military Assistance page, on the left is a list of links to important sites, including the phone numbers if you need to notify your deployed loved one of a family emergency. This note: Beginning June 13, 2011, at 8:00 a.m. EDT, all military members and their
families can use one number- 877-272-7337 (U.S. Toll Free) to send an urgent
message to a service member. The change means that all military members and
their families can use this single number to initiate an emergency communication, regardless of where they live.

Coaching Into Care

Coaching Into Care works with family members or friends who become aware of their Veteran’s post-deployment difficulties—and supports their efforts to find help for the Veteran.

This is a national clinical service providing information and help to Veterans and the loved ones who are concerned about them.
Defense Center of Excellence information and help for TBI and PTS for active military, vets and their families.

After Deployment... This web site is VERY useful to service members, family and loved ones after the return of a loved one from deployment.

Military Pathways Facebook

To help those who may be struggling, the DoD teamed up with the nonprofit organization Screening for Mental Health to launch Military Pathways (TM), also known as the Mental Health Self-Assessment Program (MHSAP). The program is available online and at special events held at installations worldwide. Check us out at militarymentalhealth.com. It provides free, anonymous mental health and alcohol self-assessments for family members and service personnel in all branches including the National Guard and Reserve.

VAWatchdog.org Very useful links for our vets and their families.

Secondary PTSD Resource Link For families and loved ones of a soldier/sailor/Marine/airman with PTSD.

Military Slang Appendix

Facebook Support for OPSEC An online resource for OPSEC regs and questions concerning safety in social media web sites.

Graphic Novel Helps Corpsmen Cope with Combat-related Stress

Links to those sending packages to our deployed sailors/soldiers/marines/airmen:

Molly's Adopt A Sailor Group Join the group, or just read for ideas on what to send to your deployed kid.

Jacob's Program Another group of volunteers sending packages to our deployed folks.

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Comment by Tamme on July 17, 2014 at 2:37pm: Tenn Navy Mom, you hit the nail on the head. Pam, that is what is so wonderful about this group of moms. Everyone experiences the same things and help so much with being able to be calm and sit back and accept and deal with all the changes.

Comment by Tamme on July 14, 2014 at 10:34am: Pam - totally understand where you are coming from. Hang in there. So glad you had a good vacation though and got to see him.

Comment by Pam on July 13, 2014 at 10:39pm: You made perfect sense JerseySusan. Thank you everyone. Really, my husband and I lost sleep over it the first couple of days. It's so hard as a Mom and Dad because you just want to "fix" whatever is wrong and in time we came to realize this is a 24 year old man with a lot of responsibility. And to say he's in Hawaii sounds great, but most of these buildings have been there since WWII. Old and outdated. It's a shame.

I think since we hadn't seen each other in nearly 18 months, he was probably shocked that we stayed the same with all our weirdness (haha) and looking back now I know I was under the assumption that this was going to be a normal family vacation like we had together for years. TDM is right - he's around men and the military all the time. Us civilians are just a pain in the butt - and apparently slow to move! LOL - when he was ready to go he would just jump up and head to the car. Not so much the rest of us. I just hope that he can learn to relax and not be stressed out so much. I'm sure that won't happen until he gets out of the Navy!

Comment by JerseySusan on July 13, 2014 at 5:24pm: Oh Pam, we all understand. Our son has changed so much these past few years and it was extremely hard to keep "my" emotions in tack in front of him. Being on this site has helped me pick myself up and put my "Big Girl Mama Panties on"! I feel a little luckier this second time around. Our son had a different kind of deployment his second time around then his first which I can't disclose info on, but before he did leave, he had the same anxiety as the first, but when he came back this time, he wasn't as stressed out as his first. It's not going to be like that the next time as he already has prepared me. But, I can say, it's all been a journey and an experience for both my husband & I, our family and our son. We have all realized, yes, even our son, how much he has changed as well & how the change has affected all of our lives. I think with our son recognizing the emotions we have gone through, has helped a lot. It has been a process of slow subtle open communication for all of us, but, I also know that could change at any moment. PS, I hope I made sense with all my jibber jabber. Hugs to All (((:)))

Comment by Curleytop on July 13, 2014 at 4:35pm: Yes, Pam I do understand. I am living the same situation. When we are with our son, he has changed so much, no longer carefree or happy. He is very serious and totally different, but TDM always gives me hope that some day when he is out, he will may return a little to the son I use to know.

Comment by Pam on July 12, 2014 at 9:44pm: Thanks TDM - you have such a gift of explaining things and putting it into perspective. I'm glad it's not just my son.

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 12, 2014 at 3:18pm: Pam! I understand completely. While my son never served blue side until the last year of his enlistment when he was an instructor, his personality was a LOT different than the kid I knew before. Things to remember....he has an important job, and taking care of people is part of it. He's responsible and he feels his responsibility. It will take him a while to realize when to be the brisk, efficient, commanding Doc and when to be mom's kid. You should have read some of the emails I got when a mom would post something my son felt was against OPSEC or too much information to be shared on a public forum. Holy moly! "Mom, get that post down NOW!" And that was the nice one...

They keep their emotions in check, they are used to being with other men, for the most part and always with more military usually. He's a tough Marine now, not just a Navy Corpsman. It's a strange world they walk in, right on the line...but he's still your son, and he loves you.

I think my son is doing pretty well at loosening up now he's out, but he is still VERY protective of those he loves. And very focused and to the point when he thinks something needs to be said or done. And usually a smile now when I tell him he can shut up now, I am in charge, not the Doc!

Comment by Pam on July 12, 2014 at 2:21pm: Happy belated birthday nicksmom and I know you were glad for the one on one time JerseySusan. We just returned from our 12 day trip to Hawaii to visit our Sailor. I'm not sure if I like the "green" Sailor. He was blueside for the first two years and this whole attachment to a marine unit has changed him so much. The first couple of days I felt like I barely knew him anymore. However, toward the end of our visit he was much more relaxed and not as grumpy. My goodness I'm still confused by how much he has changed. We knew that we could not take everything personally and the carefree, smiling son that we know finally peeked out more and more. Ladies, I have not breathed a word of this to anyone else but knew that you would understand.

Comment by JerseySusan on July 1, 2014 at 10:27am: Happy 'Yesterday" Birthday nicksmom!!! I know you couldn't have asked for a better present than that phone call!! Praying for his safe return home soon!!