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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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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: 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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New to this life? SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW NAVY MOMS

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Comment by Kaye S. on December 4, 2008 at 5:56pm: Get ready... she saw Jim's picture and is upstairs packing.

Comment by Kaye S. on December 4, 2008 at 5:35pm: In a heartbeat, Wendy! Air, ground, or rail... whatever! Or I'll ship her to YOUR door; she likes to cook and will need to learn how to cook his favorites, right?

Comment by Kaye S. on December 4, 2008 at 5:14pm: Oh, and BTW, I'm offering the same deal as Lori Patterson... will gladly pay shipping and costs for a DVD (preferred) or VHS tape. Thanks! ks.

Comment by Kaye S. on December 4, 2008 at 5:13pm: Nancy Fortini... just checked out your photos and WOW! You've got one handsome sailor there!!! I've seen so many handsome and obviously sweet guys in the moms' photos here... I used to be against arranged marriages in principal. But, since joining this site, I'm ready to enter negotiations with some of you for the hand of my 18-yr-old daughter! ;-) ks.

Comment by Kaye S. on December 4, 2008 at 12:09am: Son says there are about 3 chefs on his boat and when one of the guys is cooking, the sailors try to skip that meal. But, the other two are really good. Our FRG printed a cookbook of our sailors' favorite recipes and I think the chefs are going to make a few of the dishes on this next cruise.

Comment by lauren on December 3, 2008 at 11:10pm: Thats cool Nancy ......didn't know they had one. I will pass that on.........them they don't have to worry about all our Mom/girly talk we got going on here.........lol
My son says well....... they're trying

Comment by Mark on December 3, 2008 at 7:53pm: Way to go, Nancy! ...and a shout out to your son - he and guys like him make life on the boats a 100% better. You reminded me of something I forgot to mention, so I'll second you - again, because of the size of the crew, the guys are really good about letting the cooks know when they enjoy a meal. I'm pretty sure they like hearing it about as much as you do - so it helps the cooks do better too.

Comment by Mark on December 3, 2008 at 5:59pm: I have to offer a counter opinion on the food thing. I was on fast attacks for four years in the 80s, and the food was quite decent. The quality of the cooks does matter, but subs tend to get the better cooks, plus since the crew is so small, everyone knows everyone else, and they'd let a lousy cook know about it! The food does tend to be high-fat, it is true - but most meals are decent, and occasionally, they go all out to make one special. Saturday night mid-rats (a midnight meal, meals are every six hours - so oncoming and offgoing watches get to eat) are always awesome too - with fresh pizza made from scratch. A lot of guys will wake up for that one, even if they're not in either the offgoing or oncoming watch. As far as weight gain goes, I would also disagree - I didn't work out, but would invariably lose about twenty pounds over a six month deployment. Most actual people eat a lot less healthy when in port, LOL. No alcohol underway is probably a factor as well.

Comment by lauren on December 3, 2008 at 6:11am: Me too Debbie, after it is all over Kel tells me where he's "seen" . In the beginning all he ever told me was MOM I can't tell you that so I stopped asking ...They will tell later. I just now ( after all the talk here) emailed him asking him if he is blue or gold....lol.
Also we don't want to get them in trouble for telling us
huggs everyone

Comment by lauren on November 30, 2008 at 4:54am: Way to go to your son Bobbi............feel the love............as far as not talking about namw , dates,,,etc.... I got tired of always being told momI can't tell you that........so I told my son not to tell me anything the world can't know about, He has been in navy for 5 yrs ...and I just emailed him to see if he is blue or gold.................lol.......I don't know about mail drops, but I do know that one time we were in a hustle to make half way boxes for our sailor, that they gave to then 1/2 way though, and they were ladies shoe box size, so we got to send some goodies.....huggs everyone it gets eaiser........no news is good news