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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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Graduation Info
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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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 camenae on March 21, 2011 at 1:48am: Ladies, I'm going to visit my husband in 2 weeks. He's really depressed about not being able to see me a lot. I want to do something to surprise him and show him how much what he's doing for our family means to me. I'm hoping it will pep him up a bit. The last time he felt like this I surprised him by mailing a card with a handwritten note in it to him. That seemed to do the trick. I thought I'd bring something to him this time. Any thoughts? I'm having a mental block!

Comment by camenae on March 20, 2011 at 5:47pm: Megs, are you talking about you moving to where he's going or him moving from GL to his A school location? If you are talking about the latter, the Navy takes care of everything. If you are talking about you moving to where his schooling is, then that's different. You will have to find out if you are on his orders to move there. If his schooling is less than 20 weeks, they will not pay to move you there. Additionally, if you pay to move to where he's at, the Navy will only pay to move your belongings from where he listed his home to be when enlisting to his duty station, NOT where his school is to his duty station. Hope that made sense, lol!

Comment by Megs-Sailor Wife on March 20, 2011 at 11:34am: My husband will grad boot on 4/22. I wanted to know if I need to take care of anything for the move? Make phone calls and such? I have been reading SO much info, but does this stuff apply to the first move from boot? S.O.S. LADIES :-)

Comment by TheNerd'sWife on March 19, 2011 at 5:54pm: Hi there, I'm a new mom and hubs is at Prototype here in SC (we've been Navy family for two years, finally almost done with training and about to head to Sea Duty...which I am not looking forward to). Anyone have some advice on how to stay sane with kiddos while hubs is away because I am starting to feel those lonely days coming...

Comment by Demi :) on March 18, 2011 at 1:05pm: christine, keep your spirits up :) how long is his deployment?

Comment by Diannadb on March 16, 2011 at 1:33pm: Ave,

I'm sorry! My son was sick for over a week about a week and a half ago! My husband is deployed....my poor baby had fevers everyday and wanted his daddy...I hope your son feels better....My parents are, thankfully, here to help me. Benefits of being stationed in my hometown!

Comment by Demi :) on March 16, 2011 at 1:24pm: Did anybody get married between a-school and when your sailor got stationed? If so, please help... I'm trying to plan a wedding and then move with my sailor when he gets stationed and its just turning into the most stressful time of my life!

Comment by aveoamare(Ship02div925) on March 16, 2011 at 6:33am: well my son is sick today, he has a fever of 103.7

It figures that he would get his first cold when my husband isn't here, but I guess its something I'm going to have to get used to as a navy wife. My mom is here to help me through this, which I'm incredibly thankful for.

Comment by SeabeeWife20 on March 15, 2011 at 9:03pm: Ladies-just from another point of view on what the Navy is for me and my husband. My husband loves me and we will spend forever together. However, he didn't join the military for us. He joined the military for the USA and to protect this country and everyone allowed to live in it from harm. For those of you who have husbands that have joined for financial purposes and for your family, I understand why you would be their first priority. But for those wives out there who have husbands who joined because they wanted to serve this country, their husband's dedication will be to the Navy and then their families. I'm not sure who told you that family wasn't important, but I have always been told the opposite. If you know how to utilize the benefits the military offers for families and you support your husband and what he is doing, this whole experience can be rewarding. I love the military and have yet to have a bad experience. Granted, we are still fresh in our journey, but with a positive attitude every experience in life can be a good one.

Comment by camenae on March 15, 2011 at 8:45pm: Do any of you ladies take classes and have the Navy pay a stipend to you? I went to the financial counselor yesterday and she said that this could be a way to get extra money during the month. The program I think she was referring to is for dependents AFTER their sponsor retired or died while on active duty. Is there another program that she could be referring to? I don't think it's tuition assistance or either GI Bill.

Anyone?