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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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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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 WIVES ON N4M

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Missing your Husband? Have Questions or just feeling plain lousy without him?? LETS TALK!!

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Comment by emmypiper on December 26, 2011 at 1:40am: Hello ladies, I'm technically a fiance but will be a wife this time next month!

Comment by ALEX'S WIFEY on December 13, 2011 at 5:12pm: HELLO LADIES! ARE ANY OF YOU LOCATED IN GROTON,CT ??

Comment by meagan5220 on December 4, 2011 at 6:57pm: You are welcome! I hope all works out!! I am glad you got to talk to him!! I missed all calls until the week before he came back bc of work. :( but I was so glad I got to hear his voice!

Yea he said he wished they would have pretended it wasn't Christmas all together and he will be deployed this xmas but shouldnt be the next year (his ship is getting drydocked.) So I am already planning the best Christmas ever to make up for the last two years. :) lol

Where is his A school? Hopefully they let him leave! I know when my hubby was in A school they let his friend leave but there was also complications when his baby was born. also I think that its a lot easier to take leave if they havent classed up, and I bet with him just getting there he would still not be in classes yet. Fingers crossed! Good luck I hope everything works out!

Comment by Tonya on December 4, 2011 at 6:42pm: Thank you Brittany and Meagan for you advice. I figured that all I could do was hurry up and wait. I was able to talk to him on Friday, which was so sweet. He had to call home for some business questions, but whoever had him make the phone call also let him talk for 15 minutes! It was so sweet to hear his voice especially since I didn't expect him to get a phone call that early or even at all for that matter.

He was very emotional especially when our 2 year old got on the phone and told him, "I uh do Daddy". (I love you Daddy). We have been friends since the 5th grade and have never been apart without contact for at least 8 years. I am doing really well, but I worry about him. I'm not used to being the strong one :)

I hope that he does not have to run until he throws up on Christmas, that would be awful!

His graduation date is January 27th, so he will be there 9.5 weeks all together and will fly to his A school location the very next day. The 27th is only 10 days from my due date, so hopefully God will allow this baby to be late! We have been told that he may get a couple of days of emergency leave if he is at A school when the baby comes, but we are not holding our breaths on that one. I am just trying to be thankful for the time I will have with him and not angry for the time he is gone.

Thanks for the support!

Comment by meagan5220 on December 2, 2011 at 1:10pm: hmm thats weird that they extended his bootcamp bc of the holidays... they dont have holiday stand down or anything. My husband said Christmas was just another day except they got steak for dinner then their RDCs decided they were going to make them run to see how long it would take someone to throw up. He went Dec 13th and was done by Feb 11th.

Comment by Brittany proud Navy Wife :) on December 2, 2011 at 12:44pm: Youll get a form letter in about 2/3weeks with his grad info, address etc. Youll also get a seperate letter with a form you can take to any military base to get your id. It should have info about ins in there, all you can do is wait. When you get your id you are automatically on standard, which consist of copays etc. If you want you can print out a form and mail it in to get on Prime, which is all free you will be assigned a pcm, if you dont live near a base you can choose any tricare doc as your pcm

Comment by Tonya on December 2, 2011 at 11:49am: Hello Everyone,

My hubby left for Boot Camp on November 22nd. I haven't gotten any info on how to get a military ID or on our new insurance. Also, when he got there he was able to call home for about 20 seconds and tell me that he is safe and that his Boot Camp will be extended by 2 weeks because he will be there over the holidays. I havent found out his graduation date or his address yet so that I can write him. I did get his belongings back in a box already, but it didn't have any information along with it. Any advice? Especially in the insurance area? I am pregnant and really need to get all of that stuff worked out ASAP!