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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

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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OCS Graduate Moms

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For those who have graduated from Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI or who are currently attending there.

Members: 668
Latest Activity: Feb 3

Please, if you no longer want to be a part of N4M's consider NOT deleting your profile as everything you have ever posted will disappear when you delete it . You can leave a group but don't permanently delete your profile!

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Comment by Kathemp on April 5, 2011 at 9:54pm: Peggy- he called a little while after I posted that. Did they just recently get the opportunity? I thought maybe he wasn't allowed as he didn't bring a phone card.

Comment by PeggyW on April 5, 2011 at 9:49pm: Hi, Kathemp! My son is over there with your hubby- by the time you see this he will have called you so I hope you are feeling better soon! Hang in there!!

Comment by violet on April 5, 2011 at 7:59pm: Anytime Kat

Comment by Kathemp on April 5, 2011 at 7:55pm: Violet- Thank you so much!

Comment by violet on April 5, 2011 at 6:50pm: Kathemp - Please click on the link below. It is your group's facebook page. All of your husband's classmate's Loved ones are over there talking up a storm. They have lots of useful info and would be glad to have you join them. You will be able to get info about your husband and what he and his fellow OCs are doing. I will see you over there. Violet

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_183463445027907&ap=1

Comment by Kathemp on April 5, 2011 at 6:42pm: I am new here and this is my first post. My name is Kat, DH is Heath and we have a 7 month old, Gideon. My husband just left for OCS on Sunday and I have not heard from him since. I thought he would be able to call me when he got there to give me his address? Now I have no idea when we will be able to speak. I am a mess :(

Comment by PeggyW on April 2, 2011 at 11:44pm: Thank you, Violet! I talked to my son tonite after he'd met a few classmates and they had dinner. He sounds ok, just tired from the trip and a little nervous- he said they were ALL nervous. His dad and I gave words of love and encouragement and he seemed better afterward. I rally appreciate all of the help this community has offered to me- it means alot since no one I know has ever had a kid go to OCS so I had little info. As of today my nest is officially "empty" lol!! Thanks again!!

Comment by violet on April 2, 2011 at 8:12pm: Peggy, Here is your Friends and Family of OCS 12-11 Facebook group. Just copy and paste this address into your browsers address bar and ask to join the group. I already joined that group so I will see you there. Violet

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_183463445027907&ap=1

Comment by violet on April 2, 2011 at 7:38pm: Hi Peggy, My daughter is a Candio waiting to greet the new indocs coming to OCS tomorrow morning. Please let me encourage you to remain positive no matter what your son sounds like on Monday night when you get your "I am here" phone call. They all sound a bit shell shocked after 48 hours, but they must go through the "process" in order become Naval Officers, and their families including you must learn to become Navy Families as well.

I would also like to encourage you to join your son's Facebook group. Most of us Moms, the Wives, and the Girl Friends are over there. I will send you the link as soon as I can find it. In the mean time the group that are the LOs (Loved Ones) on 09-11 (The current Candios) are on this Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_196510770365214&ap=1

Please join us and as many of the OCS Friends and Family groups on Facebook as you can. It really helps to know what your LO is going through and what you can do to help him. Also you will get really prompt responses to all of your OCS questions over there. One thing I want to tell you is to start writing to your son right away and make sure to write him something each and every day. My daughter credits those daily letters and our prayers with her surviving the rigors of OCS. Violet

Comment by PeggyW on April 2, 2011 at 5:32pm: Hi, all! I'm a REALLY new Navy mom- put my son on a plane to R.I this morning! So very excited and proud, but I miss him already! Just thought I'd say Hi and look forward to communicating with you all and learning more about the Navy and my son"s great adventure!!