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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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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy.com Para Familias

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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 July 20, 2016 at 11:12pm: Ryan's proud mom,

Just wanted you to know that my husband and I open our home and invite the sailors to come over on the weekends. We feed them, play board games, watch movies, go mini-golfing, go to special events in the area, etc. We would love to invite your son over. I can pm you our cell phone number if he is interested.

You can go to our page on this site to find out more about us.

Yvonne and John

Comment by Navymom2 on July 20, 2016 at 10:01pm: Thanks for the "heads up" Marcy-Corpsman Mom!

Comment by abuon18 on July 20, 2016 at 6:46am: Ryan's Mom, I think to deliver to the barracks the delivery person has to be on the approved vendors list to enter base or have a military ID (like be retired military or be a dependent). So the company would have to have a driver that meets that criteria. Also, they would not be able to deliver to his room, it would be delivered to the quarter deck and he would have to pick it up so depending on what time they deliver and if he has duty it could be a full 24 hours or longer before he can get it. Is he stationed on a ship? You would want to make sure he isn't scheduled to be underway either!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 20, 2016 at 12:22am: Naval Federal Credit Union Users! Please pass on this Fraud Alert to your sailor if he or she banks with NFCU. A fraudulent email just came out posing as a NFCU alert, saying that there was an error on your account and to sign in. Tell your sailor do not !!!! click on the link and sign in. This is a fraudulent email and your account will be hacked.

Comment by Ryans proud Mom on July 19, 2016 at 12:57pm: Abuon18, he lives in the barracks

Comment by abuon18 on July 19, 2016 at 12:52pm: Ryan's proud mom, where does live? In the barracks or on the ship?

Comment by Ryans proud Mom on July 19, 2016 at 12:40pm: Does anyone happen to know if Sailors can receive deliveries on base? I live in California and my family has ordered food from Schwan's for years. I would love to have them deliver food to my son on base as well. I spoke with schwan's and they said they do deliver in Norfolk, it would just depend on Navy rules for delivering on base. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Comment by SeasonedMom on July 14, 2016 at 8:47pm: Thank you Tonya. My son hasn't gotten anything yet. He pretend sobbed on FB, but I know he will be excited when he finally does get the packages and cards. I mailed his birthday box, with his sisters special chocolate chip cookies. Who knows if they will get there in one piece, or melt into one big piece, lol! But he will be happy to see a slice of home coming to him.

Comment by SeasonedMom on July 11, 2016 at 9:51pm: How long does it take (on average of course) for packages to get to our sailors while they are at sea? I've sent two boxes, but haven't heard if they have been delivered yet. And if you send something from Amazon, when they tell you it has been delivered, does that mean to your kid, or to the place it will get to your kid? Confused newbie here, lol!

Comment by John and Yvonne on July 8, 2016 at 2:56pm: that's what happened to fudge I once sent one of the sailors. :) So I don't sent chocolate or fudge anymore.

Yvonne