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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

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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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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.

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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 Brooke on March 12, 2016 at 5:21pm: Thank you NonnaB and Alaskan Mom, I will definitely look into those places!

Comment by NonnaB on March 12, 2016 at 4:45pm: Hi Brooke, my son lives n Norfolk and likes to eat at Nara Sushi and The Melting Pot. Both are in Virginia Beach.

Comment by Brooke on March 12, 2016 at 2:58pm: Hi everyone, I have a non-Navy question for anyone who has visited or lives around Norfolk. My husband's 21st Birthday is coming up and I was trying to find a good restaurant to try. His actual Birthday is on a Monday so he just wants to go out to dinner at a fun place and save the more "21st Birthday" kind of fun for the weekend. So has anyone been to a really cool/fun restaurant in the area? The example he gave me was something with an interesting atmosphere like Rainforest Cafe haha Hopefully somewhere that serves alcohol so he can order atleast one drink on his birthday. Any where in the Hampton Roads area will be great. Thank you for any suggestions!

Comment by John and Yvonne on March 11, 2016 at 2:22pm: Michelle, is he deployed? If he is, don't send chocolate-it melts. :) DVD's are good, cookies individually wrapped and in a strong box, little toys are good. I use to send some of the sailors who come over to our house(when they were on deployment) those and cookies and sometimes DVD's of the Little Rascals(original)-gives them something to laugh about. For their birthdays I made peanut brittle in a round pan and put a hole in the middle so they could put a candle in it.(I sent the candle too), balloons they could blow up, (all the things we did when they were little.) I think they and others who celebrate with them get a kick out of those. :)

Yvonne

Comment by Michelle on March 9, 2016 at 10:25am: Someone asked about Easter care packages. Since my son will not be home for Easter, I too would be interested in sending a package. Please let me know your thoughts about the package getting there in time. I hear playing cards are a good item to send, even little toys they can goof off with in their spare time, beef jerky, maybe some protein powder (if I can find it in small enough packages). Any other ideas?

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on March 9, 2016 at 12:19am: I mostly FB message with my son. fun, almost like talking.

Comment by MoCityMom on March 8, 2016 at 4:38pm: To 1ProudMomofNavySon - yes on most ships, they can receive email while deployed. However, emails have to be sent to their Navy accounts. Hopefully you have his Navy email address. They will not see them immediately, just whenever they have time to log on. Accessibility is determined by their rate (job duty).

Comment by 1ProudMomofNavySon on March 8, 2016 at 4:27pm: Does anyone know if the sailors can receive emails when deployed? I do not have a way to contact my son and wanted to send him a few words of encouragement on his first few days out to sea?

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on March 8, 2016 at 12:29pm: My don deployed that first time so abruptly June 2013. He has sense be back, deployed again and is currently in Norfolk and his ship is doing a series of short underways. He did not re enlist and will be leaving the Navy in November:( He has a twin also in the Navy out of Hawaii who so far is quite satisfied and last we talked was re enlisting. He is currently deployed on a sub.