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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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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: 1309
Latest Activity: Dec 31, 2024
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
THE BOTTOM OF THE COLUMN
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New to this life? SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW NAVY MOMS
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Discussion Forum
Roll Call: Name your sailor's sub!
Started by Kaye S.. Last reply by jes12joy Jan 29, 2021. 1320 Replies 30 Likes
Personal Storage on Fast Attack Subs
Started by Catherine. Last reply by navyvet May 19, 2020. 1 Reply 1 Like
Personal Storage on Fast Attack Subs
Started by Catherine. Last reply by JayDee659 May 18, 2020. 1 Reply 0 Likes
submarine visits to foreign ports
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Help! I need guidance....my sailor is claustrophobic!
Started by amyf. Last reply by nurserenee Aug 20, 2018. 11 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on May 5, 2017 at 10:41pm
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Congratulations LindaGirl!!
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Comment by LindaGirl on May 5, 2017 at 10:20pm
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My youngest son just graduated from Navy Boot Camp today! We are so proud of him, as he joins his older brother in the Navy!
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My son is also on the USS Texas, since December of 2012. Welcome aboard to your son Rhonda8881.
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Comment by elizabeth_fl on May 4, 2017 at 5:50pm
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Congrats to your son Rhonda8881! My husband just made it to his 7 year mark on Friday :) Also on his second boat
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Comment by Rhonda8881 on May 4, 2017 at 5:00pm
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Just stopped in to say Hi. Haven't been very active lately. My son is on the USS Texas now. They are getting the boat ready for deployment late this year. He has been in for over 10 years now and this is his 2nd boat.
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Comment by Oceanslayer on April 26, 2017 at 1:38pm
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Happy 21st Birthday to my son Nathan. I am very proud of him wish I could tell him in person for his birthday. Sent him a text and left voice mail. Hopefully he will get those when he surfaces again. On the Newport News
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CathBubblehead Mom, so glad you finally heard from your son. 2 months is way too long to go without any emails or phone calls! ((((Hugs)))
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KKristen - My son's boats sea trials after a 3 year overhaul took about a year. He joined the boat in October 2014, the boat finally made it out of dry dock in February 2016, and left in February 2017 for its first deployment. I do not believe they will send it out until all of the systems check out.
LindaGirl - Heard from my son finally!!
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CathBubblehead Mom, yes, we will be attending his PIR next Friday. Can't wait!!
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I'm sorry if I led all to believe that the 1 year was hard and fast- that's what I get for answering in a hurry! Yes, each boat and circumstance is different, and if they haven't be underway it is almost impossible to achieve!
LindaGirl I am so happy for you and your son! Are you attending PIR? Enjoy it while he's at Groton - who knows, maybe he'll be stationed there.
Pages (14)
- * How to Send Email to a Submarine
- * Meet the Crew of a Submarine
- * Tons of Info About Submarines!
- * Emergency Messages via Red Cross
- * Fast Attacks vs. Boomers vs. Carriers
- * Command Hierarchy for Submarine Forces
- * Does Your Sub Have a Group? Look Here!
- * Halfway Boxes & Mail Drops
- * About Those Dolphins...
- * Departures and Homecomings
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