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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.
Members: 184
Latest Activity: Aug 15, 2023
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Comment by kate0818(Ship10 Div 337) on September 16, 2010 at 8:53pm
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So sorry Shelia, time got away from me. I work for Intracorp and yes I do work out of my home and live near Tampa, FL. Who do you work for and how long have you been doing workers comp?
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Comment by mom2nw on September 13, 2010 at 7:10am
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Thank you everyone for the warm welcome!
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yes, CMS is certified med-surg nurse...23 years in medical and I'm not bored yet!
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Hi, I'm new to N4M..My son is at BC right now....PIR 10/8---Can't wait to see him. I'm a CMSRN working in a Milwaukee hospital.
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Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on August 24, 2010 at 8:03pm
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Is anyone out there a Patient Advocate? I received info on a Patient Advocacy Certification Program. Kind of expensive. Would be worth it if there are jobs out there in this area. Please let me know what you all think of this.
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Hi Nurse Navy Mom, I am a CCM Worker's Comp Case Manager and it is something completely different then anything else I have ever done and I am loving it! I am especially thankful that it keeps me so busy that I can't dwell on my son not being here.
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Hello to NNMs! Sorry I haven't been on-line lately. We moved & of course I'm still helping care for my Dad, but then I had to have surgery myself. I just don't have time for unpacking or recovery -- I want to be with my Dad for as long as I can. It has been great being out of work right now because I have the time, but I sure hope I'll be able to find something later. There aren't many jobs of any kind in MA including nursing. No one wants to give up what they have for the unknown. I just received an email containing the sonogram picture of my grandchild. So exciting. My son is getting so excited - and over his nervousness about not knowing how to be a daddy!! I'm enjoying watching them and the changes they are making for their new lives as parents. It is so weird to be feeling the sadness of the loss of my Dad and yet the anticipation of a new life in this baby.
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Comment by sondra on August 21, 2010 at 8:45am
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I haven't thought about sending him a big envelope to keep his letters in! That would help when all the stuff goes flying! I think my biggest problem with all of this (besides being patient) is loosing control. At least that is what my mother tells me! lol Glad your son is almost finished with A school. Mine is going to be a gunners mate and is really excited. I tried to get him to go into the medical field but he said he didn't like it. We live in the country and he has always liked guns and hunting so I guess this should fit him like a glove. Some days I don't come home in one mental piece. lol But that is the challenge to my job I guess. Hope you have a great day!
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Thanks Chief88! I hope he is doing well too! I haven't received a letter or a call yet so I am trying to wait (patiently). But I mail at least a letter a day. Sometimes a card and a letter! lol I now work for a counseling center where I deal with kids that have behavioral problems, do poorly in school, abused or neglected. I love what I do and have spilled my love over to them. They make me smile so much and try so hard to do good for me! I refer to them all as my kids! lol
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Hi wow what a great discussion group. I work in the Tampa, Fl area as a worker's compensation case manager. Love it and hope it keeps me very busy so I don't sit around and dwell on my son not being here. He just left for BC on Tuesday, 8/17/10. Miss him terribly.
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