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.
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:
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 02/28/2013.
A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Your current Group "veteran members" are:
diannep
LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons
ellen0502
♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW
Betsy, son on Stennis carrier
Craig
sjtina
Cor
Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 142
Latest Activity: Oct 31, 2014
~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.
~N4M’s also has Community Guidelines just like any other social media.
~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.
~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:
• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:
• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.
Some Suggestions:
~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.
~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option
~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends".
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...well, I would definitely be put on the "geriatric" flight...wouldn't be allowed on the "young and hip body" flights! :-)
diannep oh my... thats a pretty picture right there. :O)
LadyHawk: I think we will all be flying "naked" in trenchcoats or hospital gowns before long, with no carryon of anything allowed....I mean....it is crazy! The lengths that people will go to in order to hurt others....very sad....
LadyHawk, there is a Walmart in Gurnee, so you could always stop there before PIR.
Here is a link to the FAA rules and regulations for flying now. http://www.faa.gov/passengers/prepare_fly/
Hmmm.....my son is a "boxer man" too but never mentioned me bringing boxers or buying some there. My guess is that since he had been there over 10 weeks (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, MLK Day holidays...and asmoed for a week) he was not doing anything at all that he wasn't told to do and may keep him at RTC! :-) But he was returning to RTC, not GL A School. There would be no problem with boxers once on GL A School base after liberty.
The girls are anxious to get "new undies" too. I remember the story of a few of them returning to GL A School base during PIR weekend with their Victoria's Secret bags...a nice young southern sailor was on duty and said something like, "Oh Lawd....now I have to search these bags!" I'm sure there were very many giggles going on by the ladies...and probably quite an embarrassed "inspector" (although happy??) :-)
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/momsofnavydivers
Marie: Be sure to join this group, if you haven't already, since those ladies probably have answers for you!
Hi LadyHawk, in addition to the things that you mentioned, I am also bringing him icy hot, mole skins, vitamins and a tide pen.
Can someone explain the difference to me between Dive prep and great lakes "A" scoool. is it the same thing? There is a group for GL "A" school but I don't even know if this is where my son will be going after PIF or if he goes to "dive prep" and upon completion, the divers "A" school is in PC. I am still confused!
Lala, stay safe and warm.
LadyHawk, another good thing to add to your list could be your SR's favorite snack foods. My son actually requested certain things in his last letter home before PIR Among the things that we took with us, were Twizzlers Licorice, Yoohoo Chocolate Drinks, Cheez Its, etc.
sailsetter, Yep, boxers are the best present after PIR, they were the first thing my son wanted when we got to the hotel. He didn't care about unbuttoning and buttoning all those buttons on his dress blues, he just wanted out of those tighty whities.
I do wonder if the hotels get a laugh at all the discarded underwear in the wastebaskets. .
Yes Kanesmom!! One step closer to PIR... Love it.
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