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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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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

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**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.

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Graduation Info
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Seabee Moms

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For "We Build, We Fight", moms!!

Members: 505
Latest Activity: Aug 15, 2023

The Ten OPSEC and COMSEC Points:

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 yelomoon on October 9, 2013 at 9:06pm: hello

Comment by belovedbyHim on October 9, 2013 at 12:55am: YES!!!!!!! Just got a text from my Sailor letting us know that he FINALLY will class up tomorrow!!! He PIR'd on 8/30 and has been sitting in Gulfport ever since. He has been volunteering to go to the Retirement home and visit and do odd jobs. It makes me feel good to hear that he learned to be kind and to treat older folks as the treasures they are. I am also delighted though that he will finally get to begin learning what he really enjoys doing. He loves to work with his hands and already has some construction experience. He'll be an awesome BU!! Is there a training guide for BU similar to the day by day breakdown from bootcamp?

Comment by deniseMatt'smom on October 8, 2013 at 10:04pm: Welcome!!! Do you have 2 in the Navy? It will be 1 yr for my son on the 25th and I was just saying how hard that day was for all of us! I wouldn't want to go through it twice!!! Congratulations!!!

Comment by yelomoon on October 8, 2013 at 9:04pm: Hello

Comment by belovedbyHim on October 8, 2013 at 3:01pm: Welcome Proudmamma- What is your Sailors rate? Where is he headed? My Sailor is supposed to begin classes in Gulfport tomorrow to be a BU. He has been there since 8/31 sitting around being bored and bumped by others who are higher in priority. You would think that they would be able to plan these things a little better so they don't have so many guys that they have to make work for just to justify their jobs. I would have been happy to house and feed him for the last 5 weeks if we'd known that all he'd be doing is pulling weeds and typing schedules.

Sorry for the venting. I just miss my sailor and we are stuck in limbo waiting to have some idea what things will look like so we can figure out when we can see him next. 10 hours at PIR was nowhere long enough!!!

Comment by cs3370cs on October 8, 2013 at 11:08am: Hope everything goes good for your son, I mean. Sorry that wasn't clear.

Comment by cs3370cs on October 8, 2013 at 11:07am: Welcome and congratulations to your son. Where is his "A" school? My son graduates on November 1st from Port Hueneme "A" school. So very excited to have him home for two weeks before more training or deployment. We won't know which for another 10-14 days. Hope everything goes good for him.

Comment by PROUDMAMMAOF2SAILORSSHIP11DIV383 on October 8, 2013 at 10:54am: Hello everyone I'm new to the group my son leaves for A school to become a seabee next weekend. I'm so proud of him.

Comment by Lighthouse3 Div203 PIR5/24/13 on September 27, 2013 at 11:17pm: Thank you very much, Karen!

Comment by Karen on September 27, 2013 at 7:58pm: Lighthouse3: Happy to hear your son's temp admin job was still there. I hope he gets to phase up soon so he does not have to muster at night. I will continue to keep him in my thoughts and prayers. I hope his knee heals completely soon so he can get back to his CE training!