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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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Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

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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

Members: 1314
Latest Activity: May 12

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 dms on April 11, 2011 at 6:44pm: yes i saw pictures that a navy mom took it is remodeled and looks very nice

Comment by TJ's Mom on April 11, 2011 at 6:20pm: cshore7222, Was the Navy lodge clean and nice? I am thinking about staying there for homecoming.

Comment by Fl..GATOR on April 11, 2011 at 2:26pm: Hi, I need help again!!!! LoL Is there a map of bldgs. of Norfork base on line? Looking for Grogan(sp?) hall address on base? Thanks

Comment by SubWife2011 on April 11, 2011 at 1:52pm: It will be a little more expensive to stay at the ones on the beach depending on what time of the year you come. But I am not too familiar with the hotels on that side of the water sense I have not had to stay in a hotel here.

Comment by SubWife2011 on April 11, 2011 at 12:24pm: If anyone has any questions about the area feel free to ask me, I grew up in the area and still live here until this summer.

Comment by SubWife2011 on April 11, 2011 at 12:24pm: Yes, VA Beach is a good place to live, but so is Chesapeake, Yorktown, Hampton, and Portsmouth. I would never choose to live in the City of Norfolk, that area is just to sketchy.

Comment by dms on April 11, 2011 at 11:14am: I read that virginia beach is a good place to live

Comment by TJ's Mom on April 10, 2011 at 6:19pm: Hi All,

My son is aboard the USS Leyte Gulf. He will be stationed in Norfolk when he returns. He wife is looking a place for them to live. They would like to live in the Virginia Beach area. Can anyone suggest apartments or townhomes community that are in a nice and save area?

Thanks in advance for any help and I hope you have a great rest of the weekend!

Comment by Ken-55 (OS Dad) on April 10, 2011 at 1:40pm: Thanks all for the welcome!

Karen, my son's played hockey since he was little, Navy parents are a lot like hockey parents. ;-)

I'm a member at NavyDads also, but I've found N4M's a great place to hang and get info. N4M made PIR easy . . . it was as if I had been there before, I knew what to expect. As soon as I knew my son was going to Norfolk I came here looking for a Norfolk group.

I've applied to join the family web at www.anzio.navy.mil , would that be the best place to get/share info about deployment? I'm aware of the importance of OPSEC, but I'd like to know what my son's up to! ;-)