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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: 1304
Latest Activity: May 7

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 Cath Bubblehead mom on June 15, 2015 at 5:29pm: No one had heard from my sailor in over a month - got an email today - he had been getting our emails, but was not able to send any out.

It is important to keep emailing, even if you do not get any in return! He said it helped him as he was working on his quals.

Don't know when he is returning - but he earned his dolphins!

Comment by lynnvikings on June 15, 2015 at 3:48pm: ISH-MOM.. My son is on the USS Hartford... :) out to sea... :(

Comment by ISH-MOM on June 15, 2015 at 3:36pm: Hey there! Haven't been on in a long time. My son is a new crew member on the USS Hartford, a TM... Anyone else here have a member on there?

Comment by tysmom on June 11, 2015 at 6:16pm: I send a short email almost every day...he has sent me two...he is on an underway....

Comment by Cerise on June 11, 2015 at 5:05pm: My son is on New Mexico. I sent you a message and friend request.

Comment by MelissaL on June 11, 2015 at 4:57pm: Hello everyone, My son just got his orders for the USS New Mexico in Groton, CT. He has about 2 weeks of Prototype to finish up before he goes.

Anyone have a Sailor on this boat? And is there a Facebrook group for it?

Thanks for your help!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on June 11, 2015 at 9:55am: Yippee, I got my first email from my son last night!! I was FB messaging with his twin, who is on deployment, at the same time it came in, Double yippee.

Comment by William in Nashua on June 8, 2015 at 11:34am: CO-TwinSalorsMom, when my son first reported to his boat it was underway and he had to wait until it returned from sea. Then about a month later it went into the shipyard for more than a year. In his case the boat was still based at Groton at that time and the shipyard was only 10 minutes away. Then the boat permanently relocated to Hawaii about six months ago.

So if it were the case your son's boat goes into the shipyard that would mean they relocated to the shipyard wherever that might be, and everyone in the enlisted crew works in the shipyard for the duration of the repairs.

The good news is there is a lot of stuff they can fix right at Pearl Harbor so hoping to send some good luck your way Lol.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on June 8, 2015 at 9:49am: I sort of redid my son's rooms, sold the house. LOL I now have a guest room and have some of the things there. Pictures they drew or painted, their bathrobes in the closet and their favorite blankets in the closet goes on the bed depending on who is visiting.

Comment by LoriM (div 337--Kevin's submom) on June 8, 2015 at 7:39am: cybergrouch, I still haven't redone my son's room. It will be 3 years in for him come Aug. He will have 2 more years on his contract and then 3 for the reserves. He said he will probably re-enlist. But, until then I have kept all of his things. Of course, all of his clothes in his closet are now in a portable closet in the basement so his sister can use his closet and she uses his desk in his room. His bed is used to put shopping bags and figure out outfits to wear. Not sure what she would do if he was still here.