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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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

Events

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

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

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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Norfolk Sailors - Family & Friends

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For families and friends of Sailors who are stationed at Norfolk; for either Sea Duty or Shore Duty Sailors. Just make sure to keep OPSEC issues in mind and not disclose ship movements in advance.

Weather - Norfolk

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Latest Activity: on Monday

RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:

In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.

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Comment by Katharine on October 13, 2023 at 12:10pm: News station confirmed my sailor's ship sailed an hour ago ... without Ike.

Comment by Katharine on October 13, 2023 at 11:46am: Gigi .... my tears on on hair-trigger today too.

Comment by Gigi on October 13, 2023 at 11:39am: Yeah He just called :)

Mind sharing whatever you got or inbox me. Thank you

Dawn thank you

Then the crying won’t stop…

Comment by Katharine on October 13, 2023 at 11:31am: Thanks Gigi. I watched that clip. There is a link to watch live .... but looks like I'll have to wait to see much. Hopefully they get going soon. Did someone forget to show up this morning? They forgot to turn the oven off? Flat iron?

Thanks B'sNukeMoM for the heads up on the delay.

Comment by Dawn on October 13, 2023 at 11:31am: Godspeed to all our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and families of those serving. May our Lord and Creator of all protect and give strength to us all.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 13, 2023 at 11:25am: News update:

Deployment delayed

Comment by Gigi on October 13, 2023 at 10:16am: https://www.wtkr.com/news/military/crew-of-carrier-uss-eisenhower-d...

Katherine here’s a short clip I found on today’s deployment

Comment by Chipmunk on October 11, 2023 at 5:09pm: Katharine - To my knowledge there is not a live came for when ships leave, like there is in SD. Sometimes the local news will show something, so you might need to do a Google search. The other option is to check your ombudsman page. At least with my son's ship, when they were leaving or returning, some of the wives would post pictures that they had taken from one of the beach spots, and would share them in in our Ombudsman FB group.

Comment by Katharine on October 11, 2023 at 4:17pm: Does anyone know if there is a live cam like they have in San Diego for when ships leave?

Comment by John and Yvonne on August 3, 2023 at 4:21pm: WaterLily,

We look forward to connecting with you when your son comes back from deployment! And hopefully we will get to meet him and invite him over. :) We have two other Sailors who are also on deployment and they will be coming over when they get back! It is such a blessing that the Lord has opened the door again for us since the pandemic!

We will keep your son in our prayers while he is out there.

God bless,

Yvonne and John