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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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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.

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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 John and Yvonne on August 18, 2016 at 4:31pm: Cerena, I am supposing that your husband is here alone? My husband and I would like to invite him over if he has the time for dinner on the weekends. We invite sailors over to give them a place to hang out and eat and play board games, watch movies, etc. Let him know about us and we can pm you our cell number if he's interested. :)

Yvonne and John

Comment by Concernedad on August 17, 2016 at 12:46pm: Has anyone's sailor ever looked into living in an efficiency hotel while on base? Just seems like it would be cheaper when they head out to sea not having to pay rent. Thoughts?

Comment by Brooke on August 17, 2016 at 11:43am: I have a quick question about bah. My husband is on the George Washington which will be going to dry dock in Newport News in 2017. Will our bah change to the Newport News rate automatically when the ship moves over there?

Comment by Cerena on August 16, 2016 at 10:07am: Hello! My husband just arrived at Norfolk a couple days ago, starting his C school :)

Comment by SoCal_Sailor_Dad on August 4, 2016 at 11:47pm: BBS, It may depend on your sailor's rate and the type of ship. After 2.5 years of training, as an ETN2 (E5) my son reported to his first assignment on a carrier that was in the shipyard for maintenance. He was given living quarters on board a barge. He described it as 12 sailors to a room, berths up to the ceiling, sharing a bathroom, rampant theft, smelly, and worse than boot camp. He and a buddy ended up renting an off-base apartment at their own expense until his BAH kicked in.

He worked on the ship, mostly overseeing civilian contractors (making sure the welders didn't set anything on fire,) cleaning out piss-laden bilge water and trying to earn his qualifications on the ship's reactor.

Comment by diannep on August 3, 2016 at 7:12pm: BBS: My son was also assigned to a ship back in 2010 that was in dry dock for over 3 yrs. Many there would deploy with other ships to get their experience. Others did "workups" on ships coming out of dry dock...which are short-term sailings close to home to test whatever they just repaired.

Comment by John and Yvonne on August 2, 2016 at 9:36am: BBS NavyMom93

Just wanted you to know that my husband and I open our home on the weekends and invite the sailors over. We feed them and play board games, watch movies or sports , go mini golfing, and special events in the area. Whether or not they have their own apartment or not they are still invited. We hope you pass this on to your sons. :) We can pm you our cell # if they would like to get in touch with us.

Yvonne and John

Comment by NavyMom93 on August 1, 2016 at 2:44pm: I should also add that the barracks were as nice as the apartments--they had laundry, tv, living room, kitchen, but there is more privacy with his own room in the apartments and no room inspections.

Comment by NavyMom93 on August 1, 2016 at 2:41pm: BBS, my son was assigned to a ship that went to the shipyard for over a year, shortly after he arrived at Norfolk. In the very beginning he lived on the ship, but then he got barracks, which were pretty nice. There were two bedrooms and they each had to share a room. After that, he got moved to brand new barracks and was only there for a short time when he applied for and got an apartment on base. He still has a roommate, but he doesn't have to share a bedroom. They have a kitchen, living room, flat screen tv, laundry. It's really nice, and living in this apartment he doesn't have to endure random room inspections, which were awful for him as he was on the night shift at the time!

Comment by BBS on August 1, 2016 at 2:06pm: My son is assigned to a ship that is going in to dry dock for 3 years. Does anyone know where the sailors will be living and what they will do for the 3 years? My son is currently E2 and arrived to Norfolk his first duty station this past May.