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:
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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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.)
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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
~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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Hope all have had a good day!
Was looking up where to buy blue star flags and trying to figure out if I needed two and found I can purchase one with two stars for each sailor!!!~! what a savings.
mamatolma: Southwest has no change fee if your SR gets delayed and 2 bags check for free. Check prices into both Milwaukee WI and Chicago Midway. Milwaukee is a shorter drive because of no traffic. Book Navy Lodge in your SR's name if you do not have your own military ID. Call directly if online shows no rooms available as sometimes they have cancellations and it is easier to get a room calling direct.
Comment by jappyjShip 02/ Div 940 22 minutes ago
Received a phone call from my SR!!!! she sounds awesome said she got the flu from the flu shot but other than that she feels good!!!! She is carrying the American Somya flag.... has made two best friends last names are Kr*(last name removed) and Bo*(last name removed) so if you are on here pm me so we can chat!!!! First thing she wants to do after PIR is get a pedicure!!!!! so happy to hear her voice made me cry!!! She hasn't received any of the 12 letters I have sent I hop she gets them!!!! hopefully she will get them all at once. So much for not wanting me to write everyday!!!! she is looking forward to them!!! So Div 940 have those phones handy they are calling!!!!!
*(PERSEC/Navy for Moms Guidelines)
Yea jappyj I also received a call from my 940 SR. She also sounded good! She passed her swim test and all her PTs so they made her the Athletic Petty Officer (APO). She is also the Section Leader of the Toilets! HAHAHAHA we warned her everybody would get their turns scrubbing toilets! She's a little nervous about DMI coming up which is some type of inspection where they get tested on making beds or lockers. She liked that I sent her a manilla envelope so she could send her letters back home since they don't have much room. She said DIV 941 is training with them now.
My son is in Ship 03- USS Hopper, Div 251. We have gotten 2 phone calls already! So happy to hear from him. We are working on travel plans from AZ to GL. Any suggestions on transportation? We will probably stay at the Navy lodge. Looking for input for our stay.
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