This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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.
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.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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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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 05/01/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Your current Group "veteran members" are:
diannep
♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW
LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons
ellen0502
Craig
CatMom509
Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 54
Latest Activity: Jun 23, 2015
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~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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Greetings!
"Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh.
Is there anything too ard for Me?"
Jeremiah 32:27
Good Morning!
Hi Friends!
"Faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
the conviction of things not seen."
Hebrews 11:1
That is wonderful, OCRBattlefrogNavymom. She sounds like a very special lady that the Navy must be proud to have!
Good Morning everyone,
I am feeling a lot more optimistic about my daughter being gone. I think of her Navy ROTC time in HS and remember how dedicated she was. This makes me think that she does not miss me and that she is giving her heart and soul into the Navy, as she should be. It just makes me cry, anyway, because she is such a great role model for other females, especially females with families already.
Good Morning Again!
Hello All!
"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you.
I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and
do not be afraid."
John 14:27
Good Morning All !
One thing I haven't shared with this PIR group is this: There is a good chance that some of the RDCs with your SRs, or friends of theirs which give them access to info, are on both this site and the "closed" FB groups (yes, there is a way into those). We know this has happened in the past....fact. Many mistakenly believe that there is more safety in the FB closed groups. Hmmm......interesting....where last names are exposed and just about everything personal is there! Soooo....not saying this to alarm or cause anyone to flee social media. Just be careful what you post when sharing. For instance, saying your SR did great on his/her PFA is wonderful to post....saying that your SR can't stand his/her RDC....a huge no no! About 4 yrs ago, there was the wife of a SR who posted that her hubby hated RDC (name). Called him a (not nice name!). Posted that right here on this site. Then another wife commented right after that post that she should go up to that RDC after PIR and "kick him in the ___." YIKES! Back then, the PIR groups were started by a member of it (now the N4Moms veterans start the groups). I quickly contacted the group creator who was the only one who had the power to delete posts. Thank goodness she deleted both posts quickly. She was also a Navy wife. She contacted each of these ladies privately to explain....neither one of them responded to her at all. How sad....she did their SRs a huge favor....they have no clue what could have happened to those SRs if those posts had been discovered.
So, not sure you should post something here or on FB? Err on the side of caution and don't. Private message would be a little safer. Social media used wisely is a wonderful asset, but used the wrong way....ooops!
B'sMom,
Many of you should have received phone calls. Look out for "847", "Pay Phone", "Government", and "Waukegan, IL." Keep you phone charged and with you always wherever you are in the house and out of the house while you have someone in Boot Camp. The calls are unpredictable and are usually more than the 3 you have been told to expect. Some cannot make calls sometimes is due to having watch or dental work needing to be done. So best to operate on "no news is good news."
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