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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Seems as if a lot of moms are nurses.. Just checking to see where you live and what kind of professional setting you work in.
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Latest Activity: Aug 15, 2023
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Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on February 27, 2011 at 9:01pm
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Hi nightnurse613! Newport, RI?? My son is just down the highway a bit and across a bridge in Groton, CT. He often goes to Newport for special training & things especially at the Navy War College. Who knows they may bump into each other & we'll never know!!!
Welcome to this group. I've been off for a while, but I'm back now -- Hello long-lost nurse moms!! Thanks for all your support, but I had to take time to do my own grieving. Have just lost another aunt this past week, can you believe it? Complications from aspiration pneumonia the result of a partial small intestine blockage. She was 86 and had severe asthma all her life so her lungs simply couldn't take it.
I hope you all are well and your sailors are fine & as safe as is possible in light of the current events unfolding in the Middle East.
Talk to you soon,
Donna
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Comment by nightnurse613 on February 27, 2011 at 3:27pm
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Hi everyone. I've been a nurse for 20+ years at a county hospital. I am the asst. nurse manager of an APCU. My son just graduated form college with his BSN and is headed to ODS in Newport on Sat. then he goes on to Bethesda Naval Hospital.
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Comment by msmom on February 24, 2011 at 10:50am
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Wow ya'll. I have been doing NICU for 30 years. Between us we have loads of experience with nursing; with sailors in today's Navy, I am strictly learn as I go. My sailor says getting mail and packages always makes him feel closer to home (we live in New Orleans and he is stationed in Japan). I have made copies of the letters that I send him so he doesn't feel like he has to keep track of all of them. I list the things I send him in packages so I don't send the same thing every time. I also write in the journal where I keep all these letters and lists. I know, I know, it's is a lot but only takes moments out of my day and I am officially an empty nester since he left 2/2010. I will probably give him the journal and its contents when he finishes his navy career. I agree, make plans to go to PIR it is inspiring to witness!
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Comment by Mairead on February 23, 2011 at 11:13pm
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Hello everyone. I just found this group, and am happy to join. Anyone from the Lower Hudson Valley area? My daughter will be leaving for BC on 3/15/11. She is so excited and looking forward it. I'm so happy and proud of her, but I know I will miss her sooooo much! She was given a 9 month delayed entry, which seemed to last forever, but now time is moving too fast. I've been an RN/BSN for 30 years, (OMG thats a long time) & have been a school nurse (grades 6 - 8) for the past 12 years. I also work weekends at a Rehab hospital (not drugs & OH, rather PT & OT). You'd think with working two jobs I would be too busy to think and worry about her, but I do. I'm hoping that the 8-9 weeks at BC will be uneventful for her. Is that too naive of me?
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Welcome Vallegirl. I too work NICU. My sailor and I started this journey one year ago! Welcome!
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Comment by valiegirl on February 17, 2011 at 6:15pm
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Hi all fellow nurses. So glad to find this group! My son left for boot camp on 2-16-11. Got the 30 second phone call last night from him. He sounded very tired. I am an RN in a neonatal intensive care unit. I love the babies, but I'm really missing MY baby right now. Hope to find comfort here.
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Just wanted to say Hi to all my fellow Nurse Navy Moms. Any in Chicago? Just wanted to say stay warm. I have over 3' of snow in my backyard. Today is sunny and nearly 40 so there will at least be some melting, but more snow for tomorrow. This cycle is getting old fast. I'm looking to do some volunteer work. I know I can't work as a volunteer nurse, but has anyone heard of the Physician/Nurse homeland security network? I saw a little notice on the bulletin board at my church, but I've never heard of it. They were looking for trained personnel and untrained who could respond to an emergency together as a unit. It seemed like it was just for the state (I live in MA). Just wondered what you all might now. Or maybe you know about something else I can do. Too old to be a candystriper and too young to be one of the gray-haired ladies in the hospital gift shops.
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Comment by nursemom (Lisa) on February 1, 2011 at 8:49pm
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Hello, My name is Lisa. My son will be leaving on Monday for BC. Starting to miss him already. He is then going to go to A school for Hospital Corpsman. I currently work per diem at our local hospital on a med/surg floor. Working on finishing up my BSN and School Nurse Certification. I've been a nurse since 1991. Hoping my son will consider nursing sometime down the road. Looking foward to becoming a member of the Navy family.
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Comment by ProudNavySister on January 6, 2011 at 5:15pm
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Hello everyone, my name is Cyndi. I do not have a son in the Navy but my little brother is (he is like my son, I am 20 years older than he is : )). I have been an RN for 11 years. Currently I am working as a hospice nurse, it is quite a change for me, most of my experience has been critical care nursing, but I have to say I am enjoying hospice nursing (I do not see any pediatric patients, otherwise I would not be able to do this). I just got accepted into grad school and in the fall will be pursuing a masters in nursing focusing on education. Back to my brother : ) he is in boot camp right now and will be graduating in February. My other brother (his twin) is heading off the boot camp in February as well. So this whole Navy thing is very new to me and my family. I look forward to getting to know you all.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR. May 2011 be a calmer and peaceful year and may our troops all come home safe and sound and soon! God bless them all and protect them with the strength of His right hand.
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