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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.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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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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

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 LovinMaSR~SHIP 07~DIV 103 <3 on April 18, 2011 at 11:03am: wow i remember when i first joined this group when my boyfriend was in bootcamp and no one was hardly on it!! glad to see that there are more members. Im on this website supporting my boyfriend. He graduated from bootcamp 3/18 and is currently in great lakes for A school to become a Hospital Corpsman....anyone else here have a Hospital Corpsman??

Comment by Cat(Mom of an AO) on April 18, 2011 at 10:59am: Good Morning NY,

Invisible, joyce is right. The advantage of being on this site while your son is a depper will provide you with so much information and YOU will know more than your depper by the time he is off to BC. Hang in there. You will be fine. I was there last year. My son was the first in the military. I signed him in because he was still underage. He left for BC when he was 17 and turned 18 two weeks before PIR. As harsh as BC sounds, my son did like it once he got used to it. He met some great friends along the way.

Hi sboli1, I sent you a PM. Hope you have a good Monday!

Comment by sboli1 on April 18, 2011 at 10:43am: Good Morning New Yorkers! Pretty nice day after all that rain this weekend. Enjoy your Monday and dont work toooooooo hard :)

Comment by sboli1 on April 18, 2011 at 10:42am: Good Morning Invisible - Like you my son will be the first in our family to be in the service. Wow Im nervous, proud and happy so my emotions are all over the place. And I will miss him terribly. I learned alot from this site already. Joseph will be 21 in Nov. So before he leaves he have a lot to celebrate - his birthday, Thanksgiving, Good luck party & Christmas all before End of Nov. How old is your son. Do you think you'll make the graduation?

Comment by joyce on April 17, 2011 at 7:58pm: invisible12: the best thing you can do is read all the info you can. I was on this site way before my son left and I was well prepared. I think I knew more then he did about what was going to happen at BC. My son was the first to go into the navy as well. How old is your son. Mine was 21 when he left He had tried college but it just wasnt for him

Comment by Invisible12 on April 15, 2011 at 10:46pm: sboli1 - My son leaves Sept. 15th. for BC. How are you dealing with it? My son is the first in my whole family to be in the service. So this is all foreign to me. I don't know what to do - there's so much to learn and it's very overwhelming.

Comment by Invisible12 on April 15, 2011 at 10:42pm: Wow, I'm so glad to see the responses. Cat - My son is IT (which was what he really wanted) so I'm happy about that. I'm still having a hard time dealing with this whole thing. I cry alot and that's so unlike me. I'm just going to really miss him! I've joined the other sites here too - DEPERS, Bootcamp, IT School, and a few others I think. There's such a wealth of information here it's wonderful. I'm really happy to see others here from NY. Go Brooklyn!!!

Comment by joyce on April 15, 2011 at 6:52pm: Chris left for BC 2/24/10 was in Pensicola Fla till this past dec. He is AT.

Invisible: its not that bad. Once you get through boot camp you will be able to speak to him very often. I speak to my son atleast 3x a week. He has been home twice in the last year. I know that sounds long but time goes by so fast..Try to get to boot camp graduation its great.

Comment by sboli1 on April 15, 2011 at 12:20pm: Hi Joyce, Yey more peps from NYC. VA Nice its close enough for vists. How long has you son been in the Navy? My son will go to BC Dec 1st.

Comment by Cat(Mom of an AO) on April 15, 2011 at 10:38am: Hi Joyce, my sailor will be there in May too. His rate is AO, and yours? I agree, we should get this site active.