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:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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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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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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.
Members: 184
Latest Activity: Aug 15, 2023
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Comment by Trina on November 19, 2010 at 6:33pm
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Thank you Sheila and Pat! Pat, my son is trying to go for Damage Control (firefighting). He is now a volunteer firefighter for our local fire company. That is his passion! I am so glad I found this site, it is helping me a lot! Thank you all!
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Hi everyone, I'm new here on Navy for Moms! I'm a LPN and currently work in Endoscopy. My son is in the process of joining the Navy, but I have a niece and here husband in the Navy and several members of my family have been in the Navy. I'm very nervous and worried about my 19 year old joining, even though, I know it's the best thing for him. I'm looking forward to being a member and going through the ups and downs with other moms going through the same thing I am.
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Comment by peanutsmom/Ship07, DIV 051 on November 16, 2010 at 7:54pm
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Hi Im a RN working on my BSN, My daughter just left today for BC. What a hard day for all of us. I work in a male prison and a hospital in Delaware.
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Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on October 26, 2010 at 8:01pm
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Hi Nurse Moms! I'm sorry I haven't posted anything since Aug. Can't believe it has been that long. Sept. passed in a blur w/my Dad slowly slipping away. Then one night the last week in Sept. my Mom called to say he was vomiting violently. So we flew over, calling hospice on the way. It took nearly 90 min. for her to get there. I think he had 2 things going on - first a blockage in the intestines because the emesis looked & smelled like stool; but then it got really nasty - he was vomiting blood, up to 1/2 a dishpan at a time. Nothing stopped the vomiting so he had to be taken to the hospital (hospice agreed). The docs told me they think the tumor perforated his stomach. He was in the hospital for 7 days and died on the 8th day (Oct. 1st). I really feel like I let him down by not insisting we bring him home to die which was his wish & I was his healthcare proxy. (In MA we have HCPs,not living wills as the legal document.) I've been on the "outs" with my 2 sisters and 4 brothers ever since. That hurts too. They accuse me of having my 'own agenda' because they don't understand HCPs and they had voted to put him in a nursing home. Anyone have experience dealing (especially) w/family about end of life documents and the legality of them? I'm considering writing a letter to all of them and explain it once and for all -- then they can do whatever they want with the info, but I will stop trying to defend myself to them. Got any better thoughts or ideas??
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Comment by mom2nw on October 18, 2010 at 6:27pm
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Welcome nursemom and slowe! I know you're not ready for this! That's exactly how all of us felt. I think I found this site the beginning of September. It has been an unending source of useful information. My son's PIR (Pass in Review=graduation) was 10/8/10. It was so great seeing him! He called from the airport last Wednesday and FINALLY I received a text today on a borrowed cell phone with his address is at his A school. I shipped his phone and laptop to him and can't wait to communicate with him in a more timely manner! The snail mail at BC (boot camp) is for the birds!.
So ask away....I know you will have many many ???s we all did
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Comment by gabbyhat on October 17, 2010 at 7:53pm
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Hi nursemom,
You probably don't have your PIR group yet. You will find out a lot of info there once it's set up. JessicaB is a great resource(also a nurse) she's one of the expert moms on here. My daughter graduates 11/5...will b heading to Pensacola for Aviation Rescue Swimmer School. What's your son's rate/job? I'm an OR nurse in a suburban hospital in north Houston. Been doing this 12 years, otherwise background is ER(6) ICU(approx 8) and Navy nurse veteran from the 80's. Welcolm to the group. You can friend me if you want and I'll share what I can...:)
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Comment by nursemom on October 17, 2010 at 3:26pm
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I just found this group I have a son that will graduate on 12/3. I have been a nurse for 33 years mostly Neonatal but just changed tobeing a Clinical Nurse leader for a pediatiac floor at All Childrens in St Petersburg florida. Love the kids and the nurses I work with. Anybody else son or daughter graduating on 12/3? I am new at this and it is confushing to know what is suppose to be done etc.
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Comment by siouxmom on October 11, 2010 at 11:13pm
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I work for a Medicaid Waiver program for seniors work out my home and make home visits. Office is 80 miles away from my rural northern Michigan home.
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Comment by Deneen(Nurse McGyver) on September 26, 2010 at 5:29pm
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I currently work at a VAMC in NC;
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Hi everyone. I'm also a 'newbie'. My daughter just got to BC 9/13. No PIR date yet, though I did get her box today. Never thought I'd be excited about dirty clothes...lol.
I work in a suburban for profit hospital north of Houston,TX. I am an OR nurse-outpatient surgery. Have been in nursing almost 30 years-mostly ICU/CCU; ER and most recently OR the last 12 years. Also did a stint in the Navy-83-86 as in the Navy Nurse Corps.
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