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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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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

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New to this life? SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW NAVY MOMS

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Comment by Kaye S. on April 11, 2009 at 12:03am: Well, of course, Lauren! Without them, there ain't NOTHIN' happening on that sub! Hugs, k.

Comment by lauren on April 11, 2009 at 12:01am: well I'm thinking that the cooks are the most important............

Comment by Kaye S. on April 10, 2009 at 11:59pm: "Knuckle-dragging?!" Please don't throw around such terms about MMs. My son much prefers the moniker, "Wrench Monkey." ;-)

Comment by Mark on April 10, 2009 at 11:48pm: Just a little rivalry between Navy ratings, Lauren. I was a knuckle-dragging Machinist's Mate, so I couldn't resist the shot. I have to be really careful around my son, who will not only be an electronics guy (sonar tech), but also a "coner" (non-nuc). But, I'm really just jealous that he will actually enjoy his job while underway, and will have much more time off in port than I did. :)

Comment by lauren on April 10, 2009 at 11:35pm: ok.... so what is wrong with being a ET ???

Comment by Mark on April 10, 2009 at 10:36pm: I know just what he means, though I never stood his watch. The highlight of a watch for him is probably if he gets to shift pumps. As an RO, he's probably one of the handful of guys on board that look forward to running drills. You can be sure that he is supremely competent though (like you don't know already), and has a great job waiting for him should he decide to get out.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on April 10, 2009 at 10:16pm: Alex now has his dolphins and is an RO (reactor operator). Mostly he just looks at a dials and switches. I hear a lot of " I'm bored out of my mind" and "I'll let you know if anything interesting happens." Personally, I'd rather that nothing "interesting" happens while they are at sea.

Comment by Mark on April 10, 2009 at 10:02pm: I had no idea that your son was an ET, Lyn - if I had known that I wouldn't have thoughtlessly thrown out the term I used earlier. You see, I badly wanted to be an effete ET as well... :) lol...sometimes I slay myself... xoxo

Comment by Mark on April 10, 2009 at 9:58pm: Yep, there are ETs that work in the cone, as us nucs say. There are two flavors now, I believe, the Nav ETs, who work on the navigational equipment, and the Comm ETs, who were called Radiomen in my day (snort, wheeze). There are also the two closely related rates I mentioned to Terrie earlier, the STs and FTs.