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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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Sub Moms

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Welcome to the deep, silent world of submarines! If you're new to this world, start by reading the "Pages" of info found in the right-hand column, below the strip of member avatars.

We welcome your questions. But, while you're here, maintain silence... don't slam doors or the lid on the toilet!

Please, if you no longer want to be a part of N4M's consider NOT deleting your profile as everything you have ever posted will disappear when you delete it . You can leave a group but don't permanently delete your profile!

Group Administrator: Kaye S.

Members: 1310
Latest Activity: Feb 25

READ THE "PAGES" FIRST!

NEW MEMBERS !!

PLEASE READ ARTICLES IN THE "PAGES" AREA

in the right-hand column, under the avatars ----->

BEFORE YOU ASK QUESTIONS !!

These articles are the "reference library" for moms, ready to answer FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) 24x7 (twenty-four hours, seven days a week). You may not have to post a question after all! Thanks, Kaye S.

NOTE: THERE ARE MORE PAGES THAN DISPLAYED -

FOR A COMPLETE LIST, CLICK ON "VIEW ALL" AT

THE BOTTOM OF THE COLUMN

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New to this life? SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW NAVY MOMS

Need an Ombudsman? OMBUDSMAN REGISTRY

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Comment by BunkerQB on September 8, 2009 at 12:49am: Kaye has amazing stuff. I go there for into. Here are the links to her blogs.
Click HERE for Tons of Info About Submarines
Click HERE for How To Send Email To A Submarine
Click HERE for Working The System
Click HERE for How To Find An Ombudsman (Maybe)

Don't forget Lovely Links To Know.
Click HERE.

I have suggested before that Mark, Kaye ought to have their own tab on the menu bar - FAQs.

Comment by Kaye S. on September 7, 2009 at 11:45pm: There's a blog post on my page titled "How to Send Email to a Sub." It also has some helpful suggestions.

Comment by Gloria P. on September 6, 2009 at 9:18pm: Nice pics Mark

Comment by Mark on September 6, 2009 at 9:15pm: I visited Zach for a week in early June. We spent a weekend in NYC and Long Island, a day in Boston and several days in Groton.

Comment by BunkerQB on September 6, 2009 at 9:12pm: WHAT THE H _ _ _ ?! Mark, I am writing Gates in the morning. I wouldn't care if my son is an officer on a row boat if it could be Port San Francisco. He could live at home. The shrine, I mean his bedroom, is still intact with cable TV.

Comment by Mark on September 6, 2009 at 9:04pm: Dems duh breaks, sweetheart...:-)) ..and yes, it is awesome! Whether he gets his exact choice will depend on his class standing still, I think. He's most interested in an SSGN, which would have him splitting time between here and Guam. Plus - they appear to be doing some mighty interesting stuff, these days. There are only two of those boats though (four crews); then I think one of the three Seawolf class boats (SSN21) would be his second choice.

Comment by Kaye S. on September 6, 2009 at 8:28pm: Mark,
How did you pull that off?! I'm going to write the Sec'y of the Navy and demand that subs be berthed in Lake Michigan!!! Simply Green-Eyed Now, k.

Comment by Mark on September 6, 2009 at 6:54pm: I've acted on the very good suggestions and copied the post below to a Discussion Forum in the Washington/Oregon group as "Winter Driving Conditions for Flatlanders Headed to Washington State". :)

Got great news today - my son finishing STS "A" school next month will be getting orders to a Bangor boat! Next week, they actually get to speak to a detailer, and will be able to request a specific type of boat, which is very unusual, and is awesome for sailors headed to Bangor, because it is the only port with more than one type of submarine. It has all three, in fact, and since the experience of a sailor on each of the three is quite different - it's a terrific thing.

Comment by Mark on September 6, 2009 at 6:46pm: By the way, the passes are only tough during actual storms. If someone is caught by a storm, they can also hunker down east of the pass for a day or two. Once the storm passes, they clear it pretty quickly, so that it's no big deal. If someone is traveling west on I-90 and finds out that there is a storm up in the Cascades, they can still head two hours south to pick up I-84 through the
Columbia Gorge, which is the route through the Cascades that is almost always below the snow level.

Comment by BunkerQB on September 6, 2009 at 5:39pm: Ditto on Mark and also Kaye S. for "Lovely Links to Know" On the menu bar (between Groups and Photos), we should have a catagory labeled FAQs. A number of key people should each have a discussion topic. Mark should definitely have his own column. A lot of valuable information is submerged under sub discussions and is lost for newbies.