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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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

Events

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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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Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy Speak

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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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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: 1307
Latest Activity: on Saturday

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 Cath Bubblehead mom on November 19, 2019 at 11:37am: LindaGirl - sorry about your mom. 94 years - wow. You were lucky to have her so long! My submariner reenlisted last year to add 2 more years so that he could get shore duty. That is one way to get off the sub! He was assigned to a sub tender in Guam (It is sort of like AAA for submarines, but is a surface ship). He was supposed to stay in Guam when the ship went out, but he finagled his way to go out with it and is having a blast. He has been to Australia, Thailand, India, Philipines, and Singapore. Not sure what his plans are when his enlistment is up in 2 years. The Navy has been good for him.

I just got off the phone with another Navy mom - her son left the service after 9 years and is missing it terribly. He was SWCC (Special Warfare). He is in nursing school, but really wants to join a fire dept! She also has a Marine who is planning on leaving this coming year. I think there is a bond that is formed in these types of service that is good for the guys!

Glad your boys are doing well!

Comment by LindaGirl on November 19, 2019 at 1:32am: Hi Kevsmom93 and Cath Bubblehead, Nice to hear from both of you. How are you and your sailors doing? Update on my 2 sailors - my oldest is doing Shore Duty in Virginia Beach, a lot closer to home then Hawaii. Now an 8 hour drive away, verses an 11 hour plane ride! He gets out in Spring of 2021, after 9 years, but right now he is undecided, but leaning towards getting out, as he does not want to go back on a sub, even though we told him he could try for a surface vessel, so we’ll see. My youngest is stationed in Groton, Conn. and loves everything about being a Machinist Mate on a sub and is getting ready to do a month long Underway, which he is excited about, as his sub has been out of water, longer then it’s been in, so he can’t wait to get his “Sea-legs” and start doing what he has been training for. My Marine Vet is on the FDNY Waiting list and is hoping to be called in the next year or two. Always a waiting game. My 94 year old mom passed away in June, so the holidays aren’t going to be the happiest, so I’ll be glad when Thanksgiving and Christmas are behind us this year. Take care, both of you and hope all is well in your lives.

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on November 18, 2019 at 7:16pm: I found directions on how to make one

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on November 18, 2019 at 7:13pm: Linda - those are GREAT! Hope your boys are doing well!

Comment by Kevsmom93 on November 18, 2019 at 6:25pm: Hi Linda,- What a fantastic purchase! I love the photo!

Thank you for sharing, this really brought a smile to my world!

Comment by LindaGirl on November 17, 2019 at 2:35pm: Full size tissue box covers made to look like couches.

Comment by LindaGirl on November 17, 2019 at 2:15pm: Look what I found at our church’s craft fair yesterday. Had to get one to represent each of my boys!

Comment by LindaGirl on July 19, 2019 at 8:05am: WearsLargeHats, so sorry to hear this news. I understand how discouraging this is. Will be praying that he finally gets his leave and will be able to come home in September. Keep us posted.

Comment by WearsLargeHats on July 19, 2019 at 12:23am: Bummer! Our boy was supposed to come home on leave in mid-May, then it was late May, maybe early June, or late June, or sometime in July, definitely 1st of August, no wait, now it is September. If they don't let him take leave in September, he will lose the days.

Comment by ITgal on July 1, 2019 at 11:11pm: CSW, like getting a drivers license with a car with automatic transmission. Then you get a car with a manual transmission. You don't have to get a new drivers license, but you need to learn how to operate the stick shift,