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

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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: 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

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Comment by LindaGirl on March 7, 2017 at 9:46am: Thanks Cath, it's so good to hear from you again, How are you doing, & how is your son? Where he is now? My oldest is still in Hawaii.

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on March 7, 2017 at 9:33am: LindaGirl - You must be so proud! Amazing what a difference a few years make! He will be in my prayers as will you be!

Comment by LindaGirl on March 7, 2017 at 9:18am: Even though, i have been through this before, 5 years ago, seeing my oldest son off to Navy Boot Camp, it is never easy, & now today, I have to say "Good-bye" to my youngest son, as he leaves for Boot Camp today also. Please keep him in your prayers, as i still feel like this...

Comment by Redwind on February 20, 2017 at 10:54am: Hi, Sailor is finishing C school and then will ship to a different state for deployment. Sailor so far has been at GL. Goose Creek, Groton and currently in C school.

Comment by m.n0va on January 27, 2017 at 7:06pm: That's so awesome. I kept reading if it's less than 6 months they won't move your family and stuff. Granted I could go move there on my own dime, though it'd be easier with their help, and I think he'd have to request to live off base or something too, but I guess we shall see. Thanks again for sharing! You're awesome :)

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on January 27, 2017 at 6:49pm: My son was married after BESS and within a few weeks had base housing. Something to think about after BESS.

Comment by m.n0va on January 27, 2017 at 6:47pm: That's so wonderful. I'm currently only about a little under 4 hours from the Groton base. I've actually dated someone who ended up becoming a submariner so I know the base and area and all that jazz already. I've just never lived there. I'd visit almost every weekend x) Even if I don't get to live up there with him, I'm hoping he'd atleast be able to come in every weekend or every other weekend once he's earned the privilege to do so!

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on January 27, 2017 at 6:41pm: We were in CT at the time he was there- every so often he would just pop in for dinner!

Comment by m.n0va on January 27, 2017 at 6:39pm: Also I think liberty is a weekend and holiday thing whereas leave is like granted permission to take off for x amount of time. Could be wrong tho, haha.

Comment by m.n0va on January 27, 2017 at 6:38pm: Thanks so much for the response! I'm actually within the miles he can travel off his base (thank goodness). The one submariner recruiter we spoke to said he'd just have to keep those in charge at the school updated and let the whole baby situation be known from the get go and it shouldn't be an issue. So I'm hoping that remains true, lol. I know it's still a ways away, but if I end up not living there with him then I'd rather be prepared in advance, ya know? I also know about the whole earning your civilian privileges and stuff too. It takes a few weeks or so. Thanks so much for sharing some of what you experienced. I really do appreciate it :)