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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

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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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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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How to prepare for deployment!

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A group to prepare for deployment of our loved ones.

Group Admin: Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom

Members: 100
Latest Activity: Jan 8, 2022

Get ready for deployment!

Use this group to help prepare your Sailor and yourself too. Learn what we can do to help them, and encourage each other through this time of change and transition!

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Comment by kzimm on November 16, 2010 at 12:05pm: I am new to Navy moms and don't really know my way around. My daughter has just been told that she will be reporting to san diego. I have learned from this web site that the destroyer she will be stationed on will probably be deployed this month. She will be finished with A school and testing next week but is not scheduled to graduate until Dec 8th. What will happen if ship deploys before she graduates? Will she get to come home before deployment?
kzimm

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on November 9, 2010 at 9:29pm: How to find your ombudsman:
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/whatsanombudsmanandhowtocontactthem

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 28, 2010 at 1:41pm: Michele, so sorry not to have responded sooner! My son is on the last leg of his first ship deployment & he's had a great experience. I sent my first care package the day he left; putting them together & mailing them off has been fun, & he's enjoyed sharing with his shipmates.

Comment by micheles3 on October 1, 2010 at 9:37pm: Hi, I'm new to this group looks like my sons deployment is coming up. Thank you everyone for all the ideas. Honestly, I would never have thought of all the details I see listed and find the information very helpful.

Comment by Kim (Ethan's Mom) on September 19, 2010 at 10:03pm: indybova, Thank the Lord for emails :) I did get a unexpected call this morning but he called to talk to his baby girl. I did get to talk some but the look on her face was worth me not talking much. She misses her daddy and he misses her terribly.

Comment by Kim (Ethan's Mom) on September 18, 2010 at 12:12pm: Ray Ray my son is deployed and all I know is he's in the Pacific Ocean. They don't give exact dates until just a little before they ship put and usually you won't know which ports until they get there or leave. Things can change from day to day. Sorry I can't help anymore than that.

Comment by Kim (Ethan's Mom) on September 13, 2010 at 5:06pm: Thanks Marcy, for sharing that! Someone posted a video on You Tube of the Lincoln leaving today and it just makes me so proud of my son and for all those serving!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on September 13, 2010 at 1:04pm: Kim, this is on navy.mil today. The buildings give great perspective for showing the Lincoln's size. Got your first care package ready to mail? :)

San Diego, September 11, 2010 - The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) departs San Diego bay for a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.

Comment by Kim (Ethan's Mom) on September 11, 2010 at 8:00am: He's on the Lincoln. They are leaving SD today :(
Which is your son on?

Comment by kim ann on September 8, 2010 at 1:13am: Indybova, I know it is hard, and wish I could say you get used to that, but you dont. You just 'adjust' for a season, and 'learn' all the time (sometimes, over and over again! Hint hint!) That is the way of military life, no matter which branch. Thankfully, here we have others in the same boat...years ago, it was not so. More alone then. You learn to lean on others that have been/or are going thru it. Dont worry. One day the tables turn and you get your opportunity to "pay it forward" as I said years ago!