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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

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

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

Sailors in Naples, Italy

Information

A group for anyone who has a Sailor in Naples or is about to go,lets share tips and ideas!!!

Members: 48
Latest Activity: Nov 8, 2021

Discussion Forum

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of Sailors in Naples, Italy to add comments!

Comment by Pam on December 29, 2010 at 8:47am: Well, it's Facebook official. My son is now in Italy!

Comment by Pam on December 28, 2010 at 11:30am: We do have skype and used it a lot while he was in A School. He should be arriving there at the base (Capo.) as I write this. Lukily, he was able to fly out of Virginia Beach without a hitch last night from all the bad weather on the East Coast. We talked up until they started boarding. He's on his third sponsor!! The first was a female that they changed because she was at another base and then the second one was a male, but he was on scheduled Leave when Jamie arrived, so he has a fill-in Sponsor that was available. Jamie was also traveling with a fellow Corpsman that went through the Marine Training with him in San Diego, so that made him feel a little better!! I wasn't too bad after I dropped him off at the Atlanta Airport. It's when I got home from work last night and his room was cleaned out and empty. Soooo hard!!

Can anyone tell me approximately how long before we hear from him. He said he was going to try to shoot us an e-mail as soon as he could to let us know he made it safe.

Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on December 27, 2010 at 8:27pm: Pam do you have skype? That is the best and it is free, it is a way to talk, and see your son. Italy, he is going to love it. And so many places he can go and see while he is there. How are you doing Pam, I cried so hard I was shaking, I brought a box of kleenex and sunglasses, it was a terrible day for me. LOL And now you have a place to go visit. We went to see Stephen in June and it was wonderful. Keep us updated, and try now to worry. Did he have a good sponsor? Well Pam maybe I will get to see him next Christmas.

Comment by Pam on December 27, 2010 at 3:22pm: Thanks Debbie! It's tough on all involved, isn't it. He just turned 21 last month. It was pretty quiet in the car on the way to the airport this morning. And then all of a sudden he yells "I can't believe I'm going to be in ITALY tomorrow!" He goes from being excited to being sad, so a full range of emotions. So sad your Stephen couldn't make it home on leave..

Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on December 27, 2010 at 2:33pm: Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and have a wonderful New Year!

Hi Carrie, Robin and Sharon!

Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on December 27, 2010 at 2:33pm: Hi Pam, well I think it is a big change for these sailors. How old is he? This is the first time away for Stephen but he did ask for Italy and got what he wanted. Jamie probably has a lot on his mind, but the people in Italy are great and the other sailors will help him get use to everything and before you know it he will just love it. It is funny we think how hard it is on us the moms but I think it is hard on the sailors also. Stephen put in for leave and was cancelled, I could hear it in his voice how much he wanted to come home it has been two years, my heart broke for him but nothing I could do, never seen him like that before he was very sad, that is not my son at all, he told me he needed a break and wanted to see friends and family. But it did help we could do skype. Don't worry Pam he will be just fine.

Comment by Pam on December 24, 2010 at 9:19pm: Merry Christmas Everyone!! Jamie starts the trek to Italy on Monday and has been extremely quiet the last couple of days. And that is not like him!! Trust me, he won Most Talkative male for his graduating class in High School, so very unusual for him. Is that normal? This will be his first time being so far away from family and friends.

Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on December 21, 2010 at 1:27pm: Sharon, just enjoy having him home, tell him thanks for everything he is doing for us.

Carrie, I bet you are having fun with those boxes!!!

Comment by Sharon P.M. on December 21, 2010 at 11:47am: Hey Moms! Got my sailor home!! He came in last night, looks good! Brought home wine for the family as Christmas presents, was so relieved it all made the trip! Hope everyone has a great day!

Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on December 21, 2010 at 11:02am: Yes that is for sure, I will keep him and your daughter always in my prays and thoughts.