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:
Events
**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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
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.)
N4M Merchandise
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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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.
Members: 1314
Latest Activity: Apr 15
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.
Discussion Forum
Norfolk Navy Lodge info, base tours, plus what to see and do in the area
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"Navy Lodge Norfolk" - Information, rates and photos
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Barracks?
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Comment Wall
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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on December 31, 2008 at 10:25am
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I'm on the Mississippi in Rock Island, IL, across from Davenport, IA. We're 18 degrees warmer than you at 9 above! The wind was unbelievable last night. I've got to go out today, so I hope I don't have that to contend with. As far as the boxes, make sure you get enough in one to make it weigh 5 pounds. If it doesn't weight that much, then you can send it cheaper in a brown box. Priority means it will get delivered to the Navy post office in 2-3 days, but no guarantee when it gets delivered to your sailor. Still, I sent many boxes with heavy things like cans of soup. And I always threw in a roll of soft toilet tissue! Take the cardboard out so it will smash down.
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Anything you can stuff in one of the large priority mail boxes, no matter what weight, is $10.95 if mailed to an APO or FPO. My son also got cold when he was on the ship. He bought himself a big fuzzy blanket (not fleece, looks more like fake fur!) in one of the ports. He would wrap it around himself. That blanket went with him to Afghanistan, too. Don't cut one--he'll want the layers or be able to wrap.
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Just reporting in about the tofu sailor. Today the phone call was about the best way to polish brass. You'd think the Navy would have that figured out! And we had a discussion about decorating his apartment when he gets to GL--they do still need their moms! Off topic--are any of you involved in HR? My daughter is thinking of getting a certificate in human resources management in hopes of getting a better job. She's a college grad in education, but chose the wrong major. Now she's thinking she should have gone into business. Any ideas? Sorry for being so off topic.
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I learned to eat it with Diet Center! It doesn't taste like anything, but will take on flavors. He wasnt' going to eat it, I'm sure!
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He was making his wonderful chili at John and Yvonne's in Virginia Beach. Someone was coming over, maybe their daughter, and she sent him to buy tofu. So he calls his mom 1000+ miles away to ask me about tofu.
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God bless our sailors! They may be protecting our country, but they still need their mamas! Mine just called to ask me about buying tofu--mom, I've never seen it, never tasted it, what is it?
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Comment by AngiePNMx2 on December 27, 2008 at 11:34pm
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I bought a NEX G.C. and it worked out perfect ..I got to personalize and had nice card with too..very handy, quick and easy..got with in 5 days after I ordered it.
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Just got the info--he says that only AT&T cards work and they have to have a $ amount on them, not units (if that makes sense). The yahoo won't work on ship, but if the sailor is in port with a computer center or has a laptop, he can sign up through yahoo for a phone number and put money on the account with a credit card. He used his yahoo number a lot when he was overseas. We heard from him almost everyday!
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I'll ask my son today when I talk to him. I know when he was in Afghanistan and using his computer, he talked to us through a yahoo account for a penny a minute. When he was on ship, he said the cards they sold there were the ones specific for the phones in foreign ports like Dubai.
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God bless John and Yvonne, here on Navy for Moms! They have taken our son in, and especially over the holidays, it is an extra blessing. They even sent us pictures of him in action in the kitchen making cookies on Christmas Eve. So as you remember to give thanks this Christmas, add a prayer for special people like the Wagners who care for our sailors.
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