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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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 who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on September 5, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 78
Latest Activity: Jul 27, 2015
~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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OK... small dilemma... my SR didn't fill in the blank for the Password for PIR... now what?
Hi everyone! My son is Ship 13 Div 278. I see a few of you out there with the same. Best feeling ever to hear his voice on Saturday :)
Excitedly ran to the mailbox today hoping and praying for a letter from my son.. nope.. no letters.. only received a Woman's Day magazine and a post card about someone wanting him to join an organization for Eagle Scouts.... would have much rather had a letter.. I really hope it doesn't take 2 weeks for me to get a letter from him.. that will be sad.. :(
Hi All! Just received my letter! My SR Son is Ship 11 Div 279. Anyone else???
Thank you for all the support here and all around N4M! I am so grateful!
Blessings to all and your families especially your SR! I hope I get to meet many of you. :-)
my soon is ship 13 div 277 anyone else
Hello Friends!
"For we are God's workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
which God prepared in advance for us to do."
Ephesians 2:10
I am having huge computer issues where my computer won't even turn own. I use my hubby's computer when he's at work but for some reason his mouse pad on the laptop has gone crazy and moves the around all over where I am typing and makes a jumbled mess. It takes at least 10 minutes to post a comment so I get very frustrated and give up. My is home and she thinks she can fix my hubby's computer and she has a laptop I can use for a while as well. It will be at least two weeks before I get my computer back :( I will never again buy a Dell. Please don't think I have deserted you. I will be here as much as I can and I can always keep up with the facebook groups using my phone. If you need me or have any questions for me please send me a friend request or message me on Facebook. I am an admin for all the PIR groups there as well :)
For those who didn't get calls from their SR even though a division was making calls, no worries. It could have been that your SR had watch and missed the calls. Hopefully a call will come soon! Also, if they are SIQ (after wisdom teeth extraction, etc), they cannot make the calls. Sometimes they get to make makeup calls so lets hope that happens!
Hi everyone, I am one of the "veteran" moms who has stuck around this site and the PIR facebook pages long after my sailors PIR to help others just like you. My daughter had PIR July 23rd 2010 and was an AO based in VA all 4 years. She is now out, got out in May but she is married to a sailor based in San Diego now and they have a baby girl who will be a year old on Thursday. They are here visiting me now :) So excited to have them home for her first birthday. My best advice for now is write every single day if you can. Your letters are the highlight to their day. They have long hard days of training and studying and learning to become fine young sailors and each night when it is time for bed have mail call. They may be feeling like they made a mistake and not sure if they can do it. But then they lay down on their rack and read your words of encouragement and know they can make it through another day. So keep those pens busy and your phones always close by. Welcome to your group :)
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