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Navy For Moms

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 Speak

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NEW YORK NAVY-MOMS

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For Moms of Sailors from New York, to talk and support each other, and share the info that we have about the "Navy Way of Life". We're waiting to hear from You! Join Us!

Location: Rochester, NY
Members: 145
Latest Activity: Feb 1, 2024

Hi My name is Vicki and I'm looking for Moms of Sailors from New York State. My son Kevin just graduated bc on May 16 - and is now in A-School in Groton, CT. Where is your son now? What Div - What Ship? - What School? How's it going with your Sailor?

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Comment by Bethin NY (Ship 11 025) on October 6, 2013 at 7:53pm: Well, he got off without incident on Thurs - still having some crying spells - damn this is hard. Are there any Moms who sent their boys out from Albany on Oct 3 ? The 3 guys that left with my son all got a Mama hug as they waited in line. 2 were brothers - one cried and said thank you so nicely - broke my heart. It's going to be a LONG 8 weeks :(

Comment by EmilyD on October 6, 2013 at 5:50pm: Thanks!! I will pray for your sr, also. Nukes should give him a bright future!! Though I am nervous, I think hm will open up a lot of doorways for my sons future, as well.

Comment by MagoostersMom ⚓ on October 6, 2013 at 5:30pm: Commendable rating! I will pray for him too! Sounds like he has many options open for him! I didn't realize there were so many jobs under that rating! Hoping for the best! :)

Comment by EmilyD on October 6, 2013 at 4:50pm: My sons rating is HM ( hospital corpsman). He will be heading to sanantonio for a school. There are about 40 different jobs under hm, and I believe orders are taking by what the navy needs, and then the SAILORS get to pick them by grade. Since the marines are a division of the navy, and they have no medical personnal of their own, they use the navy's. I am very concerned that my son will end up on the ground with the marines. I'm pretty sure by the end of these 5 years, my knees will be completely worn out from praying so much!!!!

Comment by MagoostersMom ⚓ on October 6, 2013 at 4:42pm: Emily, I know what you mean. He is my oldest and first to leave the next too and 18. He is doing Nuke, but I'm not sure what his rate will be yet in there. I heard he gets to choose what he wants MM, EM or ET and the following week they assign him (based on his choice, ASVAB Score, Openings and where they want to put him lol). What is his rating?

Comment by EmilyD on October 6, 2013 at 4:00pm: Magoostersmom, I am ok. The first week or so I felt like it was a constant effort not to cry. I too felt better after I got the call and heard my son was doing ok. I miss him terribly, though. He is my oldest and first to leave the nest. We literally tried everything to get him to finish college instead of going into the military, but now that he did it, we are proud and support him 100 percent. His group is in "radio silence" now, so other than letters, I don't expect to hear from him for 3 weeks:( I'm still keeping my phone close, though, just in case his div "earns" a call.

Comment by spomss on October 6, 2013 at 3:41pm: hope its for fun and sun sammy1990!! Feel free to ask any of the facebook mommas if they would like to join us for lunch...

MagoostersMom you fit right in...

Emily getting close for you

Comment by sammy1990 on October 6, 2013 at 2:25pm: I'm out of town for the next 7 months ; o) but I will surely join you all in the spring!

Comment by MagoostersMom ⚓ on October 6, 2013 at 2:23pm: Hi Emily, I'm doing ok... unless I see or hear anything navy, military, sensitive, kind, caring or pretty much anything brings tears to my eyes!! I'm so thankful for all of the informaiton and support on this site! and feel better after his call yesterday and am sending a ton of letters. I asked him to send me the names (with their permission) of any of his buddies he see's aren't getting mail and plan to send them letters too! You're date is coming up! I'm happy for you and am sure you can't wait! How are you holding up?