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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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Sonar Technician - Surface

Members: 197
Latest Activity: Oct 27, 2019

Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center Website:
http://www.cmwc.navy.mil/default.aspx

OPSEC Points :

Don’t discuss current or future destinations/ ports of call/deployment bases .
Don’t discuss current or future operations or missions.
Don’t discuss current or future dates and times of exercises or missions.
Don’t discuss readiness issues and numbers.
Don’t discuss specific training equipment.
Don’t discuss people’s names and operations.
Don’t speculate about current or future operations.

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Comment by d o on April 17, 2011 at 8:56pm: He'll probably love it. Hold in SD can be fun.

Comment by Janice on April 17, 2011 at 9:28am: Hi, my son leaves GL on the 21st for sandiago,i am here to hopefully meet up with others who have loved ones there also.he said he could b on hold up to 2 months b/4 his clases start.

Comment by txsailorsam-Donna on April 15, 2011 at 8:38am: do... SF likes being on hold also. I wrote you a pm.

Comment by d o on April 14, 2011 at 9:56pm: It wasn't a freudian slip, I meant to spell brother. What do you expect from a woman who had a wisdom tooth extracted today?!

Comment by d o on April 14, 2011 at 9:53pm: A trip to SD would be so nice! My son just finished ATT and is waiting for orders. He is supposed to come home in a couple of months to be the best man for his foster bother's (also a sailor) wedding. We're just praying they will approve his chit and that he won't start his next school until after the wedding. He likes being on hold, it gives him time to visit our family that lives in Southern CA. I wish I was there now:) I wonder if our sailors know each other?

Comment by txsailorsam-Donna on April 14, 2011 at 3:47pm: my sailorson... My son works in the admin office. Finished A-school, awaiting ops. Starts in June.

Hope to visit him soon.

Comment by mysailorson on April 14, 2011 at 2:15pm: Hello all. My son is awaiting in San Diego for A school to start. Just wanted to join a group that knows about his rate.

Comment by d o on April 10, 2011 at 2:05pm: LOL-We're gonna have to help each other w/ the acronym stuff:)!

Comment by d o on April 9, 2011 at 11:01pm: I keep forgetting I can look on my profile for friends, I'm kind of new to this form of communication, so this forum is fine for me. River City is apparently when they shut down all communication from the ship or carrier for security reasons, i.e. someone gets hurt and the family needs to be notified by the Navy, not some friend who read it on Facebook first, or special missions that can't let their location leak out for a period of time. If you find out any more about it, I hope you will share what you know.

Comment by d o on April 3, 2011 at 10:05am: I just recently found out what "river city" means on deployment. I am trying to enjoy all this communication, but now my sailor wants me to mail all his dive equipment to him. How in the world am I going to do that, and how much will that cost?! Do you know how heavy that stuff is. He wants weights, tanks and all. So communication can be expensive too. Then whats he gonna do when he gets deployed? Boys!