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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
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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 lauren on November 19, 2008 at 11:39pm: How cool ...tell him way to go ...........enjoy the feeling

Comment by lauren on November 19, 2008 at 2:03pm: Your right Yvonne my son tells me about helping them out.....althought I don't think he need any perks while in dry dock he said it was boringggggg, but when he was going though it he told me nothing that would make me act like a mom, he got is dolphins while on westpac,he has not told me one bad thing (except be in VA for 1 1/2 yrs) since the letter I received from bootcamp 5 yrs ago..............

Comment by John and Yvonne on November 18, 2008 at 1:46pm: Hi!

I spent three years of my career as a Navy chaplain as a submarine squadron chaplain in Hawaii. You need have no fear about the adequacy of training that your sons receive once they get aboard their boat. Every sailor assigned to a submarine has to earn his "quals". The quals cover every part of the submarine. They have to go through many hours of study and familiaization and then practical examination by their seniors to earn their dolphins. The pressure to do so is very great too. So, if a young man is not "motivated" to pu the time in to earn his dolphins others in his watch section will help motivate him. Every sailor stands "watch" on a submarine. But you can't until you've qualified on the different stations. So until a sailor is "qualified" on a station he can't stand watch and that means they are short handed and others will have to stand the watches. So, you get the drift...

I smile at the discussions about "nukes". All of our subs are nukes now. I'm old enough to remember when some of them were not. They were the old boats that ran on diesel fuel. The two types of nuclear subs we have are "fast attack" and "boomers". The fast attack subs are smaller and carry torpedoes. The "boomers" carry nuclear missles.

The training on board both types of submarines is extensive an thorough. Supervision is also a good aspect of the Navy. While young sailors are given increasing levels of responsibility as they learn and advance in rank, there are always supervisors invovled at every level.

I hope my comments help - at least a little bit.

Comment by John and Yvonne on November 12, 2008 at 10:51pm: Yvonne and I just joined this group. I'm a retired Navy chaplain and still minister to sailors in the Virginia Beach area.

Comment by lauren on November 12, 2008 at 8:38pm: Hi Margaret welcome i'm new to the group also and not the naxy .....you must be very proud .....what a great feeling ...Congrats and tell your son way to go

Comment by lauren on November 12, 2008 at 6:05am: Hi evry1 I'm pretty new to the site but not to being a sub mom. my son has been on the USS Tuscon ( a fast attack ) for 4 yrs. They have been in dry dock and gutted his home, but he is now underway going back home to our sweet state of Hawaii. I don't know how our guys do it , but now my son is talking about buying a boat in Hawaii to live on...oh well he is a great guy so what ever makes him happy and as long as he wants me to visit often. I think he loves it because he just relinsted ( or maybe it was the sweet bonus they are offering now). They are all in my prayers.....peace

Comment by Kaye S. on November 7, 2008 at 11:46pm: Wow, Kathy! 4-1/2 yrs in Guam, and now 2-1/2 yrs in Australia!
It sort of makes me a whiny baby carrying on about mine in Seattle...

Welcome! ks.

Comment by Kaye S. on October 29, 2008 at 2:13pm: Also, they have a driving mileage per day limit... isn't it 200? This is keep them from trying to drive too long in one period to get back to base. If there were 2 of them in the car, that limit was doubled.

Comment by Paulette,Rob's Mom on October 29, 2008 at 1:29pm: I am hoping that someone can help. Dies anyone know how far they can go if they get leave for Thanksgiving? Rob said that he wouldn't be able to come home (we are in MI). but that he might be able to get as far as Pittsburgh(we have family there) does anyone know? I would love to be able to see him for the holiday.

Comment by Gloria P. on October 28, 2008 at 7:36pm: Hi. I was just talking to my son on the phone. He said he got the job he wanted. Its ET communication/radio. So when he's done with BESS, that is what he will be doing in A school.