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:
Events
**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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Don't discuss future destinations or ports of call!
Don't discuss future operations or missions!
Don't discuss dates and times of when we will be in port or conducting exercises!
Don't discuss readiness issues and numbers!
Don't discuss specific training equipment!
Don't discuss people's names and billets in conjunction with operations!
Don't speculate about future operations!
Don't spread rumors about operations!
Don't assume the enemy is not trying to collect information on you so he can kill you, he is!
Be smart, use your head, and always think OPSEC and COMSEC when using email or phone!
Rules of thumb for parents and loved ones:
*If your sailor indicates to you they can't tell you something, believe them. Don't try to coax them into telling.
*If it is published by the navy about where a ship or unit has been (not going), that is when it's okay to share.
*If your sailor is in a high security area, say a nuke or EOD, consider using a nick name for them and you, a seperate email without your name on it, and don't even tell where YOU live. Let them tell you what they want you to tell others or if they are worried about info, always let them know you are on here. That's why they are careful on here about only putting first names on your profile page.
*Be aware, the OPSEC 10 points are about what they can't talk about. Think about what YOU might share as a parent or loved one of a military member that could cause trouble. You also have a responsibilty.
*Be respectful and teach other parents if they don't know and say too much, no need to be disrespectful or mean to them about it. Just guide them and let them know they maybe need to rewrite or delete the post. There isn't a member on here that wants to cause trouble or harm. They just aren't thinking or don't know.
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Comment by belovedbyHim on February 4, 2015 at 3:52pm
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Admin- I thought maybe we were having a surprise inspection just like our kids do!! ;)
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Comment by Navy for Moms Admin on February 4, 2015 at 2:58pm
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Yes, I'll say you guys did. I was just checking on something for a member. Lol.
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Admin- I saw that we had a test--- Did we pass?? ;)
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Comment by cs3370cs on January 30, 2015 at 10:36am
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Thanks for the suggestions. He is at the big naval base in the Persian Gulf. He loves to play poker so cards is a great idea. Maybe a Yatzee game and poker chips. Cookies for sure!
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Comment by Seabeemom on January 30, 2015 at 5:59am
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Some of it depends on where he went regarding restrictions, such as pork products, etc. cookies are always good, packaged snacks that he likes, I usually put in at least one silly thing just for fun, books or magazines, cards if he likes to play. The USPS priority mail flats rate boxes work great cause you can pack them with stuff and it is a flat shipping rate. There is a $2 discount on the large one for a military address. I try to avoid anything breakable. The military mail system can do interesting things to boxes, especially depending where it is going!
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My son left Friday for his first tour overseas. He'll be gone 7 months. Looking for good ideas on things to send him.
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1 year of overseas duty down, 2 more to go!!
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Comment by Momofahousefull on December 20, 2014 at 11:23am
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Kym - that is one cool gift! Have a very blessed Christmas!!
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Comment by seashnoel60 on December 11, 2014 at 9:44pm
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Hey all been gone for a while with problems. But I am back now looking forward to talking to you again
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Have him double check with his command or with housing but when we were in the Navy they would not move me to his TAD schools. We were stationed in San Diego but he had to go to Advanced Firefighting School for 3 months in San Francisco (Treasure Island) and we lived out of the Navy Lodge up there for that time. It was great and hard all at the same time. 1 car and a 4 month old cooking on a hot plate for 3 months living out of the stuff we had packed in our suitcases and car. I wish now I had been more adventurous and seen more of the area but with a baby I was still figuring out how to manage her and I and having Hubby home from his first Deployment. The Navy Lodge in GL is great but you can check into staying there and putting your other stuff in storage or leaving it with friends/family. We just left our stuff in our Apartment and paid for both for the time we were gone, it was easier.
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