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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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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: Feb 11

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NEW MEMBERS !!

PLEASE READ ARTICLES IN THE "PAGES" AREA

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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.

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Comment by mrsb on October 21, 2015 at 11:54pm: Amen to that LindaGirl!!!!!

Comment by LindaGirl on October 21, 2015 at 10:18pm: Sandy, praying for the crew of the USS Texas as well, that they have a safe deployment & will return without any problems or incidents. That all goes well & they accomplished what they set out to do.

Comment by mrsb on October 21, 2015 at 9:57pm: CO Twin, that doesn't sound like fun!!! I'm confident that my son will earn his fish on this deployment, and I don't know what they do on subs if they happen to cross the equator. I'm sure I won't know anything until they get back! I know he will be fine but will still pray for the safety of all the crew.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on October 17, 2015 at 1:09am: I think wow is short for pollywog. I have one that went through shellback on a destroyer, been wondering what they do on a sub. it is pretty brutal and nauseating on the ship. I have pictures of my son covered in stinky garbage, but he is smiling.

Comment by Mark on October 16, 2015 at 11:46pm: Navymom9828, I stayed at the Navy Lodge, about a half mile south of the base when I visited my son a few years back. I was very impressed; it compares to a Best Western, but with a two burner stove and kitchenette, and basic pans and utensils so you can do some modest home cooking. There's decent onsite laundry too. Here's a link to the website, if you like...
https://www.navy-lodge.com/lodge_page.html?p_lodge_number=13

Comment by SlezaksMom on October 16, 2015 at 10:20pm: Navymom9828 - teen listed us Siri's way of saying reenlisted. A shellback is a sailor who has been through a specific "rite of passage" upon their first crossing of the equator. A wog is someone who is not a shellback. I'm sure it's an acronym, but I'm not sure for what. :)

Comment by SlezaksMom on October 16, 2015 at 6:07pm: That's "re enlisted." Siri has her own sense of humor!

Comment by SlezaksMom on October 16, 2015 at 6:06pm: I don't post as much as I used to back when my son was in the Nuke pipeline, but wanted to share that my son just received his fish!! So excited for him!!

For those keeping score: within the last year he has graduated from prototype, teen listed, moved across country on his own, deployed as a nub, went from nub to being his division's skinny guy who could clean all the long-neglected tight spaces, qualified for his first watch, qualified for all the watches they want him to, visited multiple foreign ports of call, had sushi in Japan, ate Chinese food in China, visited a nightclub in Korea, became a shell back rather than a wog, moved into his own apartment, decided to save his money, got a tattoo and now Dolphins.

I'm thrilled for him and exhausted just typing it!!

I wanted to share with the folks who root for our sailors as hard as I do.

Xoxo

Comment by tina41 on October 14, 2015 at 8:36pm: hello all!!

thanks everyone!! God bless all of you!!

Comment by MaryBeth on October 14, 2015 at 9:04am: Thanks for everyone's reply! My son made reservations at the Navy Chalet. We also were too late for the Navy Lodge. I hope he will be able to do things with me. I keep thinking/knowing in 6 months or so he will too be stationed elsewhere...somewhere far away. I need to take every opportunity now to see him!!