Welcome to
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.

FIRST TIME HERE?

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

Events

Add an Event

**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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
PDF – 2.7 MB
PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

Latest Activity

B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) commented on Melissa Greenfield's group 'Michigan Moms (and Family)'

6 hours ago

Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

N4M Merchandise

Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.

Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.

Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

Badge

Loading…

Get Badge

PCSing/ Moving

Information

Lets talk about moving, real estate, how to pack, tips, horror stories, the good, the bad, DITY, Semi DITY and commercial moves; and share helpful websites.

Website: http://eek-moving-again.blogspot.com/
Members: 144
Latest Activity: Dec 26, 2017

So much information!

Be sure to look through all the Discussion topics in the Discussion Forum - your question may have been addressed there. Post your questions in the Comments section, or create a new Discussion for a more general question/topic. Welcome to the group!

Discussion Forum

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of PCSing/ Moving to add comments!

Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on July 5, 2010 at 7:01pm: Anti- M i love your story. I'm glad Jake was safe!

Comment by Anti M on July 5, 2010 at 3:18pm: I've traveled cross-country with cats. One was great on the harness, one did alright, and one, well, we left him in the carrier and had a litter box in the back he would use when he thought we weren't looking. This is part of the long saga I'm supposed to post up in the pets discussion. LONG story.

Preview: we stopped in Vegas and stayed at a Best Western which allowed pets. The cats cuddled up to the room alright, we were very careful opening and closing the door. In the morning, Jake was missing. HOW? Where? The maid came in and we tore the place apart . We could hear him meowing. We opened the small drawer in the nightstand and he popped out! He'd crawled up behind the drawer and curled up in it! Funny boy! I miss him so much, he was the Best Cat Ever.

Comment by mikes mom on July 5, 2010 at 2:00pm: Okay ladies I have to stop lurking and just LAUGH !!!! Marcy I do remember that scene..... Gosh I love you two !!!
Ca Princess

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 5, 2010 at 1:49pm: Ha! Especially as my folks have owned rental units all my life, and we'd been model tenants.
Smoke, in re the cat thing - makes me think of the scene in "The Hangover" when the tiger wakes up in the backseat of that vintage Mercedes and goes after Bradley Cooper. Why not use one large dog carrier instead? & btw I hate to think what the process is of "making them afraid of the outdoors" - photos of bears? ;)

Comment by Anti M on July 5, 2010 at 11:18am: The housing is run by contractors now, they aren't half as mean as they used to be. So I hear. I remember cleaning when we moved when I was a kid. There's a reason as a Navy spouse I chose to NEVER live in base housing. That, and we had too many pets for what we were offered both in Japan and San Diego.

We did leave our condo in San Diego a relative mess, the company who bought the units were total jerks. It was worth $750 not to break our backs when we weren't going to get it back anyway. They had bought the family owned condos and were in the process of tossing out anyone who didn't pass the new credit checks or had pets, and they were keeping deposits. Lots of military and low income single moms were losing their homes they'd lived in for over ten years, and no sign of empathy. So we didn't lift a finger. This wasn't military housing, this was a huge management corporation. I wasn't concerned with who was coming in behind me.

Yeah, the pregnancy thing doesn't work anymore.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 5, 2010 at 9:24am: Ruthella, now they'd probably hand you a $5 test kit and give you two minutes to hand back the results! We once moved out of a rental that we had so spotless and shiny, my husband had used CAR wax on the kitchen counters. The mgmt gal came in to inspect, put her toe on a microscopic piece of lint on the carpet and demanded "What's this??" My mom was there helping and I thought I'd have to hold her back. Ooh, moving isn't easy....

Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on July 5, 2010 at 9:08am: Marcy- Great idea I didn't even think of salad.

Ruthella- Wow, Great story!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 5, 2010 at 1:26am: Welcome Janie and Jessica! I'm sure the suspense is nerve wracking but it's an exciting time, too, how are you coping?
Whitney, re the food thing on moving day, I'm thinking a bucket of chicken sounds like a good idea. You can also chop up a head or two of romaine, add a few tbsp of Marie's caesar dressing and some croutons and have an easy-to-make, big bowl of caesar salad to go with. Paper plates, plastic cups and a big trash bag of course ;) btw, the Goodwill always seems to have punchbowls for a dollar or two, they make great salad bowls!

Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on July 4, 2010 at 11:44pm: Woot Woot so exciting!

Comment by Jessica on July 4, 2010 at 11:34pm: Thanks for the welcome :) I also moved to be closer to my husband during a-school and we should be getting duty station orders within the next month or so.