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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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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: 1306
Latest Activity: on Monday

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 MaryBeth on November 2, 2015 at 2:41pm: Thanks Yvonne and scubagirl!! The sub vet sounds like a place my son may go. Kaye, I do steal myself as my son will graduate sub school in January and I know that the time to see him is now!! After January, who knows where he will be!

Comment by Kaye S. on November 2, 2015 at 2:06pm: Moms, this next comment isn't to depress you, but to help you prepare yourselves. My sailor, when he arrived to his boat, missed the next five Thanksgivings and Christmases in a row, due to deployments. So, steel yourselves, there may be "tough seas" ahead. Hugs, k.

Comment by John and Yvonne on November 2, 2015 at 2:00pm: Scubagirl,

If your son is in until Thanksgiving, we would be happy to invite him over on the weekends. Let him know he is always welcome here in our home and he can bring any friends on the sub he may have.

Yvonne

Comment by John and Yvonne on November 2, 2015 at 1:58pm: Amy and Marybeth, I talked to our friends and they are no longer ministering to the sailors, but said their old church still is. So, I called and left a message. Hopefully they will get back to me. If i don't hear from them or no one in the church is reaching out, the Sub Vets that scubagirl mentioned sounds like they would at least be in good company. I hope everything works out for both sailors. Yvonne

Comment by Amy L. on November 2, 2015 at 1:50pm: Thank you so much scubagirl!!! That is great and I know he will like this!! He has only been in CT since Aug. His PIR was 8/14/15!! He has made many friends and he is definitely not lonely but you want them to have somewhere to go!!! I don't know what I'll do when he does finish up schooling and is out there where I can't really talk to him!! I've gotten use to talking to him every day!!! But it really does help to have people on here to talk with!! I will definitely let him know about the Sub Vets today!! Thank you again so much!!!!

Comment by scubagirl on November 2, 2015 at 1:43pm: Amy, the Sub Vets have a big Thanksgiving Dinner at their club house on School Road. My son and his girlfriend and several guys from his BESS class went. They feed about 1200 sailors that day. My son enjoyed the food and the day. I have checked and they are doing it again this year. I think they even have a bus they bring over to pick up the guys who do not have a way to get there. He is now in VA and will be underway for Thanksgiving and Deployed for Christmas. This is our new normal. His Deployment date has changed 3 times and as my son says all the time. "It is what it is". Or that is the Navy. Life is now very flexible. The Sub Vets made sure all the guys knew about their luncheon and I am sure they will again. This way he is going with a bunch of guys and not to a strangers house by himself. Still trying to get my son to take advantage of John and Yvonne's hospitality but between all the under ways and other plans he has not. I am hoping he will soon as he is still having a hard time meeting people since they are coming and going so much getting ready to deploy. When talk to your son tell him about the Sub Vets luncheon.

Comment by Amy L. on November 2, 2015 at 12:21pm: Thanks John and Yvonne!!!! Like I said he may not go but I would like for him to have the option and if others are going then he just might go with them!! He's not shy, just kind of wary of strangers but if they have others there that would make him feel a little better!!! Thank you so much again!!!

Comment by Amy L. on November 2, 2015 at 12:14pm: Thanks Marybeth & Navymom9828!!! It has been a very hard year, just taking it day by day!! If you do hear of anything going on for them please let me know, I'm not sure my son would go to someone's house or not, I just can't bear the fact of him being by himself, although I can hear his reaction to that "AWW Mom, I'm not a baby anymore"!!! :)

Comment by John and Yvonne on November 2, 2015 at 12:06pm: MaryBeth and Amy,

John and I have friends in Groton who we know would be happy to invite your sons over for Thanksgiving Dinner. They were doing what we are doing for a while on the weekends too. Let me get in touch with them and see if I can give you their information. In the meantime, maybe you could let us know what your son's names are and how this couple can get a hold of them.

I'll be back in a while with the information.

Yvonne

Comment by MaryBeth on November 2, 2015 at 12:05pm: Thanks Navymom9828! Yes, they put on a big spread for the sailors on base. From what I gather it is quite delicious!