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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 NavyWifeTrivette on October 8, 2011 at 1:04am: I will be moving to Kings Bay in a week! Can't wait to be back with my hubby again! Any other wives there?

Comment by TropikalParadize on October 5, 2011 at 8:54pm: Im in Coronado and work in La Jolla if anyone has any questions about the SD area! Feel free to mssg me!

Comment by corpsmanwifeschu on October 5, 2011 at 6:45pm: It does take about a month for that first check to get there but it will be for most of the time he's been there. Any pay the Navy owes you, they will get to you.

San Diego will soon be home for me too. Hubby will be leaving for Camp Pendleton at the end of this month.

Comment by corpsmanwifeschu on October 5, 2011 at 6:42pm: And yes, you can bring snacks and stuff to keep your son occupied. I however didn't pack enough. My boy went through his snacks fast. I had a couple of toys for him to okay with too. The best toy was his sister, she's good at that.

Comment by corpsmanwifeschu on October 5, 2011 at 6:40pm: The Centennial graduation was hands down the longest grad anyone would have to sit through. We had to be on base no later than 0745, the ceremony was supposed to start at the usual 0900 and it didn't start until 0940. It wrapped up around 1145, after they rededicated Naval Station Great Lakes. Now, do this longer ceremony, the whole time while staring at the back of your Sailor's head. Any graduation in the hall would seem like a shirt commercial break compared to that wait.

Comment by meagan5220 on October 5, 2011 at 2:28am: it does say a few pay cycles for anything to kick in with the Navy but they do give backpay

Comment by skell456 (AO wife) on October 5, 2011 at 1:46am: Pay- I am in California. Near Chula Vista that is a very nice area. It is just really expensive out here so save some cash. Where are you from???

Comment by paytonshana on October 3, 2011 at 1:48pm: Moving in the Chula Vista Area after Christmas. So excited husband is already their, already have a place. He is an ET. Any advice for a newbie in California?

Comment by NavyWife10 on October 3, 2011 at 11:31am: oh that helps so much! Thank you!!

Comment by NavyWife10 on October 3, 2011 at 11:24am: Thanks Ladies! I have already told my mother-in-law a million times that we MUST get there early. At that point I will be so anxious to see him that I probably won't be able to sleep the night before :) We have a 2 yr old son that I will obviously taking as well. Any advice on that? He is an excellent child, but I am a bit concerned about him sitting through the whole ceremony. Is there a lot going on? And am I allowed to bring snacks, drinks, books, small toys, etc. to keep him busy? I'm sure we'll have to sit and wait for some time before the ceremony even starts.

Another question I have is about his pay. We were told by his recruiter that his first pay would be directly deposited into our acct the 1st and 15th of each month. He arrived to BC on Sept 15th and Sat was the 1st of October. Still no money deposited. He took the bank acct information w/him and we discussed which acct the money would be deposited in. I am concerned simply because I am unaware of where it is. What should I do? Is there someone I should call?