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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.

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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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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.

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Latest Activity: Feb 25

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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.

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Comment by LLovesmysailor on May 21, 2009 at 6:19pm: I finally got an e-mail from my son. It was short, but that's normal. He got his "fish" yay, he's growing a beard (?) and apparently looks like Shaggy. He got to see some of Norway. Its OK to say that because they are not there any longer.. He sounds like things are better, although he is still bored most of the time. This is apparently good if you are an ET.

Comment by Karyn on May 21, 2009 at 5:55pm: Exactly Ken's Mom...everything is a big thing. I live by ... build them up...don't tear them down.

Comment by Karyn on May 21, 2009 at 2:51pm: Congrats to your son AMBER. I was just over on my step-son's carrier site and there were a couple of moms over there that were expressing how happy they were that their sailors made 3rd Class too.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on May 20, 2009 at 7:35pm: Does anyone on the list have a son on the Tennessee? The Mom's on Knit for the Navy are trying to get in touch with the Tennesse. They need an address to send the afgans.

Comment by John and Yvonne on May 20, 2009 at 6:08pm: Saturday evening Yvonne and I and Nic (USS Carl Vinson) enjoyed an all you can eat buffet at Pizza Hut, playing 18 holes of miniature golf at Lynnhaven Golf Park (Virginia Beach), and ice cream at Dairy Queen. Fun evening!

Comment by Kaye S. on May 20, 2009 at 3:08pm: One of our personal funnies: First you have to know that Son's little sister rarely gets one over on her brother because she's gentle-natured and just doesn't think that way.

Anyway, he's always telling folks, "I'm a machinist. We're the ones in the back, hitting stuff with wrenches." Once, while home, we were all at dinner and he's telling us what he's been up to on cruise, ending with, "...and hunting terrorists."
Sis asks what they do when they find some. He says, "We shoot them." She answers, "But, you're not a gunner. You don't shoot ANYTHING. I guess you'd have to hit them with a wrench."

Son looked like he'd had water thrown in his face, speechless with his mouth hanging open. The other three of us laughed until we cried!

Comment by Kaye S. on May 20, 2009 at 2:54pm: Hey, Ladybug! There's not a woman here who hasn't, at some point, thrown herself across the bed and sobbed... just keep crying until it all comes out. Then, you're ready to straighten your cap and be there for the younger ones who come along. It takes special women to be military moms and wives. We all suffer from that horrible duality of wanting our guy/girl to come home and stay home, but also being proud beyond words at what he/she does for this country. (By the way, large quantities of chocolate helps alot.)

For some GREAT FUNNIES, read "Top Ten Lines From Bootcamp." I promise that you won't be able to keep from laughing out loud! Hugs, k.

Comment by BunkerQB on May 20, 2009 at 1:49pm: Lyn Love, LOL. Please tell your younger son that in my area, computer geeks are considered "sexy" - honestly. Money is sexy, computer geeks make lots of money; therefore, computer geeks are sexy.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on May 20, 2009 at 1:39pm: Hey Bea, My story also takes place in Pensacola. My husband and I were there delivering Chris' car. We decided to go out to dinner at a good seafood restaurant. Several people recommended a place called "Crabs, We Got Em." The next day my husband sent out an e-mail to friends and co-workers,telling them about this great restaurant called....We Got Crabs. It took months for the jokes to stop.

Comment by BunkerQB on May 20, 2009 at 12:57pm: Some on you are probably too young to remember this song from South Pacific. Google South Pacific if you have never heard of this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.

"Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk,
Talk about things you'd like to do.
You got to have a dream,
If you don't have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?"

Tell us about your funniest incident/story. If we laugh and cry at the same time it'll be great.

When we went to Pensacola for our son's OCS graduation, he forewarned his father (who forgot to tell me) not to expect the Drill InstructorsIs to be polite or civil (described as real tough *%^#), even at the banquet. Several families were gathered together to be introduced to the DIs So there I am yakking away happily with the DI, comparing notes on golf courses in San Diego, giving him our contact info, inviting him to bring his clubs if he is ever in Northern California. The DI's eye lighted up when he heard the name of a couple of course we could get him on. The DI was just as nice as can be. I couldn't understand why my son was standing in the background motioning with his hand across his throat and the other Ensigns doing everything they could think of to keep from cracking up. As part of the routine at the banquet, they had to do some pushups. I think they did extras because of my big mouth. I can tell guys were ribbing my son. Boy, did I get it when we got back to the hotel.

Have a great day. B