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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

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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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

Members: 663
Latest Activity: Apr 11

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 M's mom on June 19, 2015 at 12:22am: Galleymom: Yes, the poor things get very little sleep at OCS. They have to take turns on overnight watch at the front desk of the barracks. The night my son had to do it, he had to force himself to pace around to stay awake because he dared not sit down and fall asleep on watch! He was relieved at 0400, and went back to his room, thinking he might get an hour or so nap before reveille. Well, it happened to be "Wake Up Wednesday" for the new OCS class whose rooms were just down the hall! No sooner had my son hit the bed, when the DI's came crashing in, kicking the doors and banging trash can lids together to wake up (and scare the daylights out of) the new class. My son then had to stay awake in his academic classes all day. He said he was awake about 39 hours straight before he could crash! But they learn that they can do what they must do.

Since your son has passed RLP, you should hear from him more often since he will have email. Here is a link below to a silly cartoon about OCS RLP. Feel free to share this with your class's Facebook group. This is only funny AFTER your loved ones have PASSED RLP. My son said this is pretty much what it felt like to him when he was undergoing RLP. Notice how they must refer to themselves in the third person! If this link doesn't work for you, search YouTube for "Navy OCS RLP." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agmas9UoxE8

Comment by M's mom on June 18, 2015 at 6:58pm: GalleyMom: Has your son passed the RLP inspection yet, or is that upcoming for his class?

Comment by Quilter on June 18, 2015 at 1:40pm: GalleyMom, Thank you so much!!

Comment by Quilter on June 18, 2015 at 9:34am: I take that back, 16-15 has one :)

Comment by Quilter on June 18, 2015 at 9:32am: Thank you Anna, I hope so!!!

I have noticed there is no 15-15 or 16-15 FB pages!!! Should we start one!!

Comment by Anna on June 17, 2015 at 11:47pm: Quilter,

And you will be a wonderful asset to the new moms!!!!

Comment by Quilter on June 16, 2015 at 11:46pm: M's Mom, I will be here!! :) Time to pay it forward!!

Comment by Anna on June 16, 2015 at 10:15pm: M'sMom,

Oh I agree!!! It is our duty!!! I visited my son and his family in the middle of the Nevada desert years ago so it is only fitting that I plan a visit to HI as well!!!!! Just to see him and his family!!!!

Comment by M's mom on June 16, 2015 at 8:24pm: Anna: It's good that our intel sons don't tell us anything, because if they did, they would have to kill us! (Just kidding--I hope! ) You may have to plan a trip to "somewhere in Hawaii in a couple of months" to visit your son. It's a mother's "duty" to visit her children when they are stationed in Hawaii,-- just to see THEM, of course! haha

Comment by M's mom on June 16, 2015 at 8:09pm: Quilter: Congratulations to you & your family! Sounds like you are justifiably proud of all your kids. Now that YOU have survived OCS, (not to mention your son, haha) strap yourself in, now the real Navy thrill ride adventure begins!

If you haven't already, join the "Naval Aviation" group here on N4M's. Those Moms can answer any questions you will have about flight school.

I hope you will now help us to reassure the newbie OCS moms here, especially those whose LO's have been rolled to H Class, and those waiting on late NAMI letters!! You're now a voice of experience!