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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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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

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Comment by NevadaSierra on February 3, 2009 at 9:55pm: I'm liking it!

Comment by Kaye S. on February 3, 2009 at 3:18pm: Lyn,
What candy your son doesn't want to eat can be employed to other usefuly purposes. For my son's 21st birthday, I had 7 pounds of Sour Patch Kids (his favorite) delivered to the ship's office just before a deployment. He got a few quals signed off by "spreading the love!"

Comment by LLovesmysailor on February 3, 2009 at 2:36pm: The postmaster in our town is Navy retired. I asked him about sending the passport priority mail and/or confirmation of delivery. He told me that the only confirmation I would get was that the package was delivered to the FPO, the Navy that is. After it gets into the hands of the Navy there is no way to track a package or a letter for that matter. I just hope that the passport gets to him before they deploy to where ever they are going. My son says he kind of wishes that the candy had gone to some one who would have eaten it. Now it is taking up half his bunk. He is exagerating of course the box wasn't that big. LOL Thanks for the suggestion about the priority mail flat rate boxes. I will definitely use those.

Comment by Mark on February 2, 2009 at 11:50pm: Hi Ordy,
Yes I was a nuc MM-ELT on fast attack subs in the mid-80s in San Diego, and have been working with the nuc program as a civilian for twenty years. My son is currently in BESS, and will be a sonar tech.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on February 2, 2009 at 11:29pm: I just got an e-mail from my son. He wrote to let me know that he got the box of chocolates I sent him, after they got underway. The thing is, I sent that box on November 10th,2008. Not sure where its been all this time,but he's now sleeping with a box of chocolates. I sent his passport to him at the same address. That was 3 weeks ago, so far no passport. So I guess the lesson is,don't send anything that is likely to go bad or is needed in a timely manor. Got to love the Navy.

Comment by Mark on February 2, 2009 at 10:00pm: No problem, Tina. I'm starting to get that, and it makes a lot of sense. I finally got a return call from my son at sub school yesterday after two weeks, myself. I was at least as bad as a young sailor, though I suppose I can claim the excuse of not being tethered to a cell phone or having e-mail 25 years ago. I suppose when you get down to it, one thing many youngsters in the military have in common is a desire to establish a life all their own, and cutting the apron strings is part of it, as painful as this can be for us parents, especially the moms. So, I'm understanding there's a need, and I'm happy to help.

Comment by Kaye S. on February 2, 2009 at 4:18pm: Well, the ALABAMA is back in her berth again... I don't know for how long, but I'll take it. This is as fun as playing "Button, Button, Who's got the Button!"