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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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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

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

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A place for anyone that's a kind of Health Care Professional to come & discuss their Sailor, their job or connect w/someone w/the same interest.

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Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023

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Comment by margemax on March 16, 2011 at 8:29am: Looking forward t the info. great idea

Comment by BarbaraR. on March 5, 2011 at 10:48am: FYI am able to communicate daily or almost daily with my son while he is on his ship via his miltary e-mail. Just little messages but it helps and he says the daily e-mails make him feel close to home....Am getting a box together for him and his shipmates - they want magazines like OUTSIDE, SURFING etc and of course snacks...

Comment by BarbaraR. on March 1, 2011 at 11:35am: Thank you Kathleen for info about Molly's Adopt a Sailor. I am on a mission!

Comment by nightnurse613 on February 27, 2011 at 3:19pm: My son leaves in 6 days for Newport and ODS (officer development school) then on to Bethesda Naval Hospital. I have know he was going into the Navy for 2 years-where has the time gone? He will be a Navy Nurse and I am so proud of him but I am going to miss him so much.

Comment by BarbaraR. on February 23, 2011 at 5:48pm: I would like advice as to how can can best suppport my son and our Navy troops.

Comment by BarbaraR. on February 23, 2011 at 5:46pm: I'm a health care professional . Worklng as an RN for the county hospital, then taught school and now working as a school nurse this last year before retirement. Also, worked as an ex TWA flight attendent in my 20's so have traveled the world as my son is now going to do. Would like to know where he is and is going .All I know is that he is on a ship going somewhere in Asia..My son is a pilot deployed for the first time.

Comment by mommajo on February 22, 2011 at 3:21am: Redmop96: Welcome aboard! For 4 months I can say 30 years RPh. How can that be when I'm only 29??

Good luck to your family and future sailor!!

Comment by Redmop96 on February 22, 2011 at 12:45am: Hi All. Just getting started here. Our son left for GL on the 17th. This is our first experience with the military (even though both of our Dad's were in the Navy)! I am an RN, for almost 31 years (Scrappy is right that is almost hard to type-I can't possibly be much over 30!!). I have been employed at our Hospital's Hospice House for 2 years now. Prior to that most of my nursing years were in critical care. It has been a good change and I believe I have found the area I will retire from-in another 20 years or so!! lol Glad to have found N4M-have learned so much from this site already.

Comment by Cindy-Molly's Mom on February 21, 2011 at 4:50pm: Hi Carol(Scrappy1),I'm also a Diploma RN of 35 years.Wow! Time flies! I work in a NYS Prison and am hoping to retire in the next year.My daughter has been in the Navy for 6 yrs and is on deployment with her first ship duty.Last deployment was in Afghan.She was leaning towards Corpsman but changed to CTR when she was stationed in Hawaii.Glad to have you on board.

Comment by Scrappy1(Carol) on February 21, 2011 at 3:02pm: Hi all, my son just graduated BC and will stay in GL for A school. He is going to be a corpsman and I am so proud. I have been a RN for 32 years (that was painful to type). I am a dinosaur, a diploma nurse. I have been with my current company for 15 years and now run 3 outpatient GI centers. What was I thinking? Glad to see this site, have a great week. Carol