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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.

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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

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

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

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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

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San Diego Moms/SOs

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We had another group for the moms and significant others based in San Diego or with sailors based in San Diego. But it disappeared! So I'm starting a new one so that all of us in San Diego or with loved ones here can connect!

Location: San Diego
Members: 224
Latest Activity: Feb 15, 2023

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Comment by KXS on July 16, 2013 at 9:26am: Good luck Irene!

Thanks chriscwick, it does feel good to finally have a location locked down to call "home" while I'm there. Now it's just a waiting game, I'm getting so antsy!

Comment by chriscwick on July 14, 2013 at 6:11pm: Fair winds , following seas! Hope it all goes smoothly.

Comment by abuon18 on July 12, 2013 at 10:09pm: Ksm welcome!!! We absolutely love San Diego. I'm sure you will too!

Comment by Irene McClure on July 12, 2013 at 10:09pm: I am heading to San Diego next week!! My daughter is due Aug. 3rd. The Dr. told her Tuesday that the babys head is down and now it's the waiting game.I am hoping to get out there before he comes.

Comment by chriscwick on July 12, 2013 at 7:13pm: How awesome! Bet it feels wonderful,

My MA MWD Handler will be out Aiugust, mid month. He's both excited & apprehensive. All he knows is the Sands of Bahrain! A new command is going to be an adventure!

Comment by KXS on July 12, 2013 at 2:53pm: We put a deposit on our new apartment, San Diego here I come! :D Who knows, maybe I'll run into some of you folks out there! Warm wishes :)

Comment by abuon18 on June 30, 2013 at 9:55pm: Hi forevermom, if there is any way you can postpone your trip until August I would suggest that. With Comic-Con in town in July airfare, hotels, and other touristy things all raise their prices & are going to be much more expensive. Comic-Con is July 17-21.... If you visit before or after those dates you'll probably find a bit cheaper fares. The hotel I work for though raises prices the entire month...we run about $200 over our usual rates for the whole month of July because demand is so high.

Comment by forevermom on June 30, 2013 at 8:19pm: Hello I'm planning to visit my sailor next month , somebody know if there is discount for the airfare, really $$$$$$$ expensive the fly ticket

Comment by gabrielsmomma on June 20, 2013 at 7:42am: Hi forevermom ~~

"Its called the Navy lodge or the Gateway depending on what base you go to. They are very nice on Naval base Point Loma for $70 a night. I went to the ones on the mine warfare base/NMOC/ASW... people call it all kinds of stuff. They didnt seem as nice and the specific room I saw didn't have a/c AND didn't have a screen in the window so if you opened it for air it was just a hole in the wall. Just have her son check out the rooms first. They are on base and depending on where you are she may or may not have access in and out of the base without her son."

Seems you rec'd a lot of GREAT infor! Yea Navy4Moms! Good luck & have a wonderful visit... :p

Comment by abuon18 on June 19, 2013 at 10:50pm: Also keep in mind Comic-Con is in San Diego in mid-July. That causes compression throughout the city, not just downtown, and drives rates up so you'll want to try and plan your trip around that if at all possible. Also causes a price & crowd increase in plane tickets and everything touristy from parking to attractions.