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

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

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

Information

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To all who drop by! WELCOME! please post below so we can get to know you. If you send a message around to 'all members' , we CANNOT respond. So, please introduce yourself below, and remember to not share dates or specfic movements by any military unit on the board! Thank you!! and again WELCOME!!

Discussion Forum

View All

RSS

Loading feed

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of Anyone with Sailors/Soldiers/Marines in War Zones and Combat Areas to add comments!

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 9, 2013 at 3:32pm: Ktssong....you will always be part of this group, the support you share is important to each of us. My son left the Navy right at one year ago, but here I am, I can't give this group up. My memories of his deployment is vivid, and probably more so when I read the posts shared here. It's what we do, and it's what we need to do, pay it forward because of the support we received from other moms when our kids were in war zones.

Comment by ktssong on February 9, 2013 at 1:48pm: My son had four days off too when they returned home in September and even after that it wasn't too busy. It was nice to see him to relax and sleep in a safe environment. We took pictures of him asleep just because it was nice to see him rest.

Comment by Joanie Tyler's Mom(133 Bees) on February 9, 2013 at 1:36pm: Tyler said they would have 4 days off when returning this time...

Comment by yelomoon on February 9, 2013 at 1:19pm: when you sailor returns from deployment are they going to be running around doing military things right away or will they have some time to social before going back to there base?

Comment by ktssong on February 8, 2013 at 1:16am: Hi Ladies. I just caught up from my reading my last post to see what's going on here. I have to say even though my son came back in Sept from his first deployment to the sandbox, I can't really tell what group I should be with but this one seems to fit even though he's stateside now because I'm not quite past all we went through and I know here is where you will understand me. I teared up just reading about the new moms who have sons there now and I know you all will find great comfort on this group like I have.

I am about to leave to go visit my son in 4 weeks and I am putting together a scrapbook of his deployment. While he was deployed his Battalion had a facebook page that had pictures and updates daily almost and I'd scour every picture for a pic of him and then download it to my computer. I just had them printed so I could make a book for him to keep. I'm hoping he likes it. We bought the cruise book that the Battalion had made too after deployment and I was very impressed with it.

If you can, get involved with the Family Readiness Group for your Battalion. Me and my daughter in law did every activity they did through the deployment even though we were in another state. They sent weekly emails to us and if they made T Shirts, we bought T shirts. If they made signs for homecoming we did the same thing and when they celebrated hump day (halfway through deployment) we did too. So I encourage all of you to get involved. Even right now even though he is stateside they are letting me be on one of their committees to help write letters to Battalion members with birthdays or special occasions and it's helping me be supportive to our military as a Navy mom. I feel like I can do something useful.

I like the mention of the Dogs on Deployment post you shared TexasDocmom. I am going to mention it to my daughter in law. She loves dogs and maybe she can help watch someones dog that's on deployment. There are so many ways to help our soldiers that I never dreamed of until my son got in...it's been a real eye opener.

God Bless All us moms and dads and God Bless our Serving Sons and daughters.

Comment by adale on February 7, 2013 at 11:54pm: Thanks Susan.

Comment by adale on February 7, 2013 at 11:42pm: Thanks yelomoon. He isn't one to communicate often, so I am finally sleeping!

Comment by yelomoon on February 7, 2013 at 10:23pm: I am in happy tears!!!

Comment by yelomoon on February 7, 2013 at 10:20pm: adale, You are a lucky lady.

Comment by adale on February 7, 2013 at 5:50pm: I read posts, but don't comment often. Just leaving this group as MY SON IS BACK IN THE USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is off to Post-grad school in CA now for 15-18 mo. I may be back after that, as he has ~7 yrs to go till his 20 is up. I appreciate all the support over his year in the sandbox. Will miss you all!