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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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
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

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.

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Comment by John and Yvonne on September 15, 2014 at 7:06pm: Thank you juliw, Malen and Navymom2! We love inviting your sons (and daughters) into our home. First time they're a guest; second time they're part of the family! :)

Yvonne and John

Comment by Malen (navy mom of two sailors) on September 15, 2014 at 5:33pm: @ Juliw I agree with you. Joh and Yvonne were so wonderful couple. They were adopting my son too. Im very lucky to met them here.

Comment by juliw on September 15, 2014 at 8:36am: John and Yvonne, you both are the most fantastic people! I love that my son has a safe place to go off base! Thank you for taking care of my son! We are so blessed to have met you!

Comment by DARmom on September 14, 2014 at 6:17pm: Does anyone have a sailor in Norfolk who is from Michigan or a nearby state? We live in Michigan and my son wants to come home in October for about 10 days. He has his own vehicle and we are trying to see if anyone would be interested in carpooling home with him!

Comment by Navymom2 on September 14, 2014 at 3:17pm: May our good LORD rain blessings on you John and Yvonne! Thank you for being there for our sailors. :)

Comment by Malen (navy mom of two sailors) on September 14, 2014 at 11:37am: I am very lucky to met John and Yvonne Wagner here in the group. They adopted my son and they were picking him up from the base every Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday they celebrated my son's birthday which is 9/11 and Yvonne prepared filipino foods for him. I really appreciate them reaching out for my son. Thank you John and Yvonne. I will definitely see you in January once my daughter arrives VA for her A school.

Comment by John and Yvonne on September 14, 2014 at 7:27am: Yes, this is the age of texting! John and I have found that when we want to find out who is coming over to our house on the weekends, we have to text them and they respond. Phone calls? Very seldom do they answer and in a lot of cases they haven't set up a voice mail. For those of you that don't know who we are, my husband is a retired Navy Chaplain and we have been in Norfolk/Virginia Beach for 14 years, inviting sailors(and Marines and Soldiers) to come over to our house on the weekends to have a place to hang out, play board games and of course we feed them! :)

Comment by momofc.r.15 on September 11, 2014 at 7:31am: Leach73, oh yes this generation is definetly more comfortable dropping us Mom's a short text or email. I too miss just sitting and talking on the phone so I can hear about everything. But after having a chance to tour His Ship and meeting as many of His fellow shipmates as we could, I could see how close they are and that does help with this job us Mom's have. So I have tried to do the same thing and it kind of helps. Take a minute or two and just drop a short text or when on underway emails. Sometimes just a line of how proud I am or something funny that happened at home. He has told me that little touch of home helps.
So hang in there.
Have a safe day.

Comment by Leach73 on September 10, 2014 at 9:45am: Navy Mom Deanna. I just heard about the Fleet Fest for Oct. 18th too! I would love to go but yes, have to wait til I hear back from my Sailor to see if this will be a good time for us to go.

Have you been getting emails from your Sailor? My daughter arrived to Norfolk in May.

Melinda - how about you? any word from your Sailor?

Kathy - yes I agree! N4Ms has been the best source of support for me since the beginning! I think I can say the same for all of us!

Thanks!

Comment by DebbieBTexas on September 9, 2014 at 10:14am: I was fortunate, and not only got to see my son for a few days, we went on the family day excursion with the Roosevelt a couple weeks ago. That was so incredible. If your ship does this you have to go.