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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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Ohio Navy Moms

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For Navy Mom's from Ohio

Members: 340
Latest Activity: Jan 28, 2022

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Comment by Jodi-alumni Ship 4 on October 13, 2013 at 3:06pm: Congrats, Misty, on getting your first real call. It's awesome she is doing so well too!

Comment by Misty(Morgan's Mom) SHIP14DIV020 on October 13, 2013 at 7:24am: Good Morning! I received my first REAL call yesterday!!! It started out kind of rough! She was crying...couldn't understand a word she was saying! Finally she calmed down & said "Im just so happy to hear your voice!" Whew a weight lifted off my shoulders! After that she was nothing but positive! Said she absolutely LOVES it! She was made the Recruit Religious Petty Officer for her Div.(I probably have that out of order! Im still trying to grasp Navy terms & talk) She is also the Asst. Recruit Physical Training Petty Officer! They took their first (again not sure of the letters) but Physical Training test & she passed with flying colors! Said she did 4 more each of the push-ups & sit-ups required of her just to make sure & finished the run number 7 out of both her Div & her brother Div (I think she said there were 140 or maybe it was 160...a little crackling on the phone!) Which to be honest Im not surprised! She is a runner! Would get up on the weekends to go run 5 miles for fun! She was on her HS track team & CC team, so running is her thing! I hope this finds you all well! Have a great day!

Comment by MachelMMmom on October 12, 2013 at 6:15am: Good morning to all the Ohio Navy families. Blessings to you all : )

Comment by MachelMMmom on October 5, 2013 at 6:18am: Good morning Navy Moms :)

Comment by Milette (Ship13/Div 037) on October 5, 2013 at 1:35am: Machel, thank you for commenting, my son actually said Mom go online to N4M and sign up! lol, he's such a great kid, I can't wait for the phone call that he passed the tests, congrats on yours passing, must be an amazing feeling :-)

I will apologize now if I don't use proper words/abreviations as I'm still learning!

Comment by MachelMMmom on October 4, 2013 at 2:47pm: Navy/AirforceMom, I really appreciate all the words of encouragement. It's great getting words of wisdom from everyone that's been through this.

Comment by MachelMMmom on October 4, 2013 at 5:59am: Good morning Milette-Seth's mom. I understand how you feel and are fortunate to have found this site before your SR goes off to BC. It will be helpful for you to prepare. I didn't find it until a few weeks ago, in fact my husband is the one who found it for me. You never quite know how it feels until your child is the one going off to BC. Then you understand and your heart changes.

Comment by LMC -mom of 2 Sailors! on October 3, 2013 at 5:31pm: Hello ALL! I haven't posted on here in a long while but it great to know you all found our Ohio group. We have a group on Facebook Ohio Navy Moms. We try to gather as we can.

Some of you newbies may find a local Blue Star Mothers group a great source of support also. Those in the northern part of Ohio has a couple of options I belong to the group in Fairview Park Ohio Chapter 26. If you. Would like more information Please send me a message. Our meeting is the 4th Monday of the months and often the 2nd Monday of the month we gather for craft night or box packing.
My prayers are with all of you while you ride the Navy ride. Hang on for the ups and downs but know they are doing what they feel is the right path for them.

Comment by Milette (Ship13/Div 037) on October 3, 2013 at 2:23pm: thank you Jodi. I will definately join the boot camp for moms. isn't this just like giving birth? you feel like your the only one going thru it but it's been happening since forever

Comment by Jodi-alumni Ship 4 on October 3, 2013 at 2:12pm: Machel and Milette welcome to the group. Make sure that you join Boot Camp Moms. It will become your lifeline. Once you have his division number join that group as well. Usually when one mom gets a letter she lets everyone else know so that you can be looking out for it. My son's division wasn't sending out letters when everyone else was. If it weren't for other moms in his division I would have been going NUTS but knowing that no one else was getting anything really lowered the stress level lol. It's normal to cry and every mom on here can relate (although you will find a lot of non military moms can't). Good luck. You will survive this and you will be totally amazed at the remarkable young sailors you will meet at their PIR.