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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

Need an Ombudsman? OMBUDSMAN REGISTRY

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Comment by NevadaSierra on March 22, 2009 at 4:23pm: JoLene, my heart sank too as our sailor is out also. Very glad to hear your good news. Hang in there mom.
As for the questions about the ombudsman - they have a site here - ask away. I would recommend them to any one. They are an awesome group. If they don't know, they will get you connected.
Our sailor is married and we don't have contact but he has super gule on his communication skills.~s

Comment by Kaye S. on March 22, 2009 at 3:53pm: JoLene, I know of one other HARTFORD mom... her user id is Susan (Josh's Mom). Click on her name to find her. Hope this helps! k.

Comment by lauren on March 22, 2009 at 12:51pm: JoLene happy you heard from him
Karyn I think you still be kept informed can't he keep you on the list for the ombudsman after he is married.........
and you'll still have this great network of info
huggs to you

Comment by Karyn on March 22, 2009 at 12:48pm: JoLene: Thanks for the update. Glad you heard from your son. Mostly, was glad to hear that the Navy kept you so well informed. I'm sure others will appreciate that information. I've wondered how informed I would be. Once my son marries, I'm sure that info will go to his wife.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on March 22, 2009 at 12:29pm: JoLene, Please share with us anything that the Navy allows. It helps to share and to talk it out. Especially since we all understand what you're going through.

Comment by lauren on March 22, 2009 at 11:29am: JoLene you are in my thoughts and prayers I hope you hear from your son soon and kept us posted ok.
and can't wait to hear about date night...............

Comment by LLovesmysailor on March 22, 2009 at 11:07am: JoLene, I hope your son is well. My son is on the Miami. Hopefully they will bring the Hartford home for repairs and you will get to see for yourself that he is OK. Maybe you can send him an e-mail and ask him to call home. They are certainly in port somewhere by now. I was so glad to hear that no one was badly injured. You are in my thoughts. All of us who have sons on subs know how you feel. If you need us, we're here for you.

Comment by Mark on March 21, 2009 at 11:37pm: A spelling throwdown! Can't say I've ever heard of Spelling Baseball, but it sounds interesting. One of these days, when your son returns from a patrol in mid-summer, the state park that someone has mentioned in the past for watching the boat coming in (Kitsap Beach State Park) also has a nice campground, and would be a great spot for you and your husband to camp the day before, especially if you're RVers. It is in a beautiful spot on the Hood Canal, just north of the base near the floating bridge.

Comment by Kaye S. on March 21, 2009 at 10:54pm: Mark (dearest), I know you're correct about all the surfacing stuff (and Lyn)... I just meant that when you play with the little submarine on the Discovery website, you can only make it go up and down by emptying the tanks!

If I may freely paraphrase John Lennon, "The Navy is what happens while you're making other plans." Son originally thought an airplane ticket for today would be ok... then he calls us from the ocean to change it... we can only get one for Monday (Sunday is sold out)... the boat comes in on time (Friday)... meaning he could have flown today as originally planned. Ack! So now, I have to wait two more days to see him... drat, those commander-people, whoever they are!

And Mark, since you 1) called me "sweetie" and 2) self-corrected your spelling error, I'll put away my red pencil and you may have first turn when we play Spelling Baseball on the next rainy day. ;-) k.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on March 21, 2009 at 1:44pm: The Adm is an amazing man. A true southern gentleman who told great stories. The kind of person you could sit and listen to for hours. So different from Adm Rickover. I was so glad when I heard that Adm McKee had taken over the Nuclear Navy. He never talked down to anyone. He just assumed that if you didn't understand the shorthand, that you were intelligent enough to figure it out sooner or later. For an about to be Navy wife, it was like graduate school for a Nuke wife. Forgive me for taking this walk down memory lane.