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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 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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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.

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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.

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Comment by Northwoodsmom on July 6, 2023 at 1:04pm: Water Lily, good to hear from you and so happy you got a chance to enjoy some family time. Wonderful memories those family road trips. Did they pick on each other all the way still. My son is in Virginia Beach area and we are making a road trip next week, 17 hours for us. We are picking our Sailors up and bringing him to his sister's wedding in Tennessee. First time our children will all be together in 17 years. Thought it was only 12 but y was corrected. Looking forward to also meeting our new daughter-in-law, first son got married in Korea last year.

Comment by Katharine on July 6, 2023 at 12:41pm: WaterLily - Mine is "out there" doing their final pre-deplpyment certifications. He is actually closer to me than to Nofolk. A few days ago he was about a hundred miles due east FROM HERE!!! We went to the beach and waved. Marine Vessel Tracker showed that they moved, but he is still closer to me than Norfolk.

Mine too will be driving his car and some of his valuables down here before deployment. It is also a 12-hour drive (due south) but I think he intends to fly back. I don't want to do the drive back here by myself and I don't think anyone else will be easily able to take more time off after his 2 weeks here.

Comment by WaterLily on July 6, 2023 at 12:25pm: Hi Chipmunk! Thanks for checking in. I'm glad to hear your son & DIL were able to enjoy some fireworks while relaxing on their own patio and avoiding the traffic jams. That's the way to go!

Our family actually just got back from the Norfolk area yesterday. Our sailor (son) is readying for deployment and drove his car home prior to his week of leave. Instead of flying back, my husband, our daughter and I decided to drive him back for a family road trip. It takes us about 12 hours to make the drive so it was fun to make some old fashioned family road trip memories, like old times lol. We rented a house in Hampton again and drove in Sunday, spent Monday together as a family and took him back to base Monday night. It was nice to have some quality time together and overall was a relaxing and low-key holiday - the best kind!

Comment by Chipmunk on July 6, 2023 at 9:45am: Good Morning !! How is the Norfolk crew doing?

Mine son is now a civilian, but he will be staying in the area since his wife is stationed there. I think this was the first 4th of July that my son was able to watch fireworks in 7years, since before he went to BC. I was encouraging them to do something fun to celebrate the day. They did not want to get caught up in all of the traffic. I did hear that they were able to sit on their balcony and see the fireworks from a distance. I know my son was happy and DIL was as well, that they did not have to drive anywhere.

Comment by Chipmunk on May 1, 2023 at 3:32pm: Oh Wow!! That is significant!!

I am glad to hear from everyone!! It is good to know that our sailors are fine and yes, if they are out to sea those big ships do rock n roll.

Shanny, thank you for sharing the update. I am sure the community will pull together and help everyone out.

Comment by Shanny on May 1, 2023 at 1:16pm

Comment by Shanny on May 1, 2023 at 1:15pm: My son just sent me a screenshot of a tweet from the NWS. The tornado that hit Virginia Beach was an EF 3.

Comment by Northwoodsmom on May 1, 2023 at 11:52am: My son checked in with us last night, he is the Virginia Beach area and didn't know a thing about it. I heard it touched down between River Rd. And Great Neck Rd. Hurried and checked our Airbnb and everything was fine, had me sweating bullets for awhile. Thank the Lord no one was seriously injured.

Comment by Dawn on May 1, 2023 at 11:10am: my son also lives in apt in Newport News. However, he was on base for his duty day on Sunday.

Comment by Shanny on May 1, 2023 at 11:06am: My sailor was at his apartment in Newport News. He said they had frequent cloud to ground lightning, winds and heavy rain. He called this morning and said base seemed fine. Sounds like most of the damage was to Virginia Beach.