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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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Navy.com Para Familias

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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Comment by submarine on November 20, 2015 at 4:28pm: Not sure - rate is job right? He is going for Sub Missile Tech

Comment by submarine on November 20, 2015 at 4:05pm: Got it - yeah my son will not purchase his own Im sure. So wait until he is done school to purchase these? PIR is 12/4 then onto Groton for A school.

Comment by scubagirl on November 20, 2015 at 3:59pm: My son was issued one set of sheets at boot camp July 2014 and has not bought any more. His are old and not the softest things. I have read and I know on one of his underways the washer was not working and no laundry could be done. If he had an extra set he could have changed his sheets. This way he leaves out for a 6 month deployment with new sheets and one to spare. On the sub there is not a store like the ones on the ships with all kind of items to purchase. A week or so without a washer means wearing dirty sox, uniforms and sleeping on the rack in dirty sleep bottoms or what ever they may chose to sleep in. Just a way to make things a little more pleasant while gone. Your sailor may have bought extras but my is too cheap to spend $40.00 on sheets.

Comment by submarine on November 20, 2015 at 3:30pm: Why would I need to provide him sheets?

Comment by cybergrouch on November 20, 2015 at 3:21pm: Any HMJackson people?

Comment by karent0801 on November 20, 2015 at 2:15pm: LindaGirl, what a coincidence! Mine is on the North Carolina.

Comment by LindaGirl on November 20, 2015 at 1:05pm: In Hawaii, also.

Comment by karent0801 on November 20, 2015 at 12:52pm: Sailor is stationed in Hawaii. How about yours, LindaGirl?

Comment by scubagirl on November 20, 2015 at 12:52pm: You can order sheets from RackSheets.com or Fleet Sheets.com. Rack Sheets have the flannel sheets. Both have the cotton sheets. I plan on getting some of the 10 hour hand and feet warmers. He used them when he was in the band in high school and sitting out at football games. They really help. I may go to Sam's and get a big box so he can share with others on the boat. I know space is limited so I have to watch how much I take to him. I have bought a Christmas card and put in a couple of the magnetic frames with a picture of the family in one and his girlfriend in the other to open on Christmas. His gf got him a couple of things we put in a padded envelope with her card so he can put in bottom of seabag. She made a Valentine card for him and bought a box of daily devotionals with a card for his birthday in Jan. I think we have all his holidays covered with some little something. We bought calendar squares from the FRG for the dates of Christmas, his birthday, Valentines day and his dad's birthday. It was fun creating them with pictures of him on those special days. They will hang in mess hall on those days. Fundraiser for the boat's FRG.

My son in on the USS Newport News. It is a fast attack and one of the older boats. He said there is a chance it will be retired before he gets out.

Comment by LindaGirl on November 20, 2015 at 12:36pm: Karen0801, my son also deployed in Oct. & won't be back till the spring. Wonder if they are on the same sub!