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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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

Events

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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
Latest Activity: Feb 11

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

THE BOTTOM OF THE COLUMN

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New to this life? SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW NAVY MOMS

Need an Ombudsman? OMBUDSMAN REGISTRY

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Comment by ITgal on October 3, 2015 at 9:34am: Hi SilviaDC'smom - My son is on the Bremerton, I haven't found a group on here, but there is a closed group on Facebook. Your sailor needs to get you on the Ombudsman's list and they will let you in to the group. They also send out monthly newsletters by email.

Comment by Lisa on October 2, 2015 at 6:22pm: Hi SilviaDC's Mom. There may not be a page for the Bremerton here on Navy for Moms. However, the Bremerton may have a facebook page.

Comment by SilviaDC'smom on October 1, 2015 at 5:23pm: Hi All, anyone here with a Sailor on the USS Bremerton? cant find the page...or is there one?

Comment by Kaye S. on September 27, 2015 at 12:40am: DAC's mom:

Luminox watches are very good. Navy SEALS wear them. The hands and numerals are always lit. My son (nuke MM) recommends a rubber strap (vs. the stainless one I bought him).

Comment by tina41 on September 26, 2015 at 8:55am: hello all!!

happy Saturday to all of you!! enjoy the weekend!!

Comment by ELO.Navy.Mom on September 24, 2015 at 11:33pm: Just talked to my sailor, and asked him about cranking, since he is with his boat and crew in HI, but not underway yet. (Has been there since June) says his crank duty was on a meal barge between two subs...mostly waiting tables and clean up. Only did it for like 3 weeks and got pulled back to his boat because the crew chief wanted him there...said a lot of the guys on crank duty had been doing for months and months,so he felt lucky. Said it was a great way to get to know everybody on his boat.

Comment by William in Nashua on September 24, 2015 at 11:28pm: The Casio G-Shock series are nice and are popular. Timex Expedition watches are also also very nice the ones that have the word Shock on the dial. They are really heavy duty 'digital' watches though some of the Timex have hands and a dial. For the automatic mechanical watches (self winding) like the classic dive watches, Invicta Pro Diver series makes some really nice watches for the money. A bit of a step up from that your are into Orient and Seiko dive watches. I think the young men like the G-Shock and Expedition watches though.

Comment by DAC's mom on September 24, 2015 at 6:45pm: What is a good watch to get your submariner as a gift?

Comment by Johanna on September 23, 2015 at 9:42pm: Haha, good memories. The first time my oldest Sailor was cranking they were underway and he failed to secure some of the pots and pans. Yup, good times...and now, he is a Father-to-be an E6 and heading to be an Officer... my youngest did the same, he was pretty much relegated to taking a lot of trash up every morning and scrubbing down the kitchen. When he brought the trash up, he took that opportunity to call me and describe each and every sunrise to me with a big smile on his face. I told him to make it the shiniest kitchen ever, and when he was done, ask what else he could do...and he is now a diver and is part of SOF and loving all of it...;)) It's all good...;)

Comment by William in Nashua on September 23, 2015 at 4:12pm: This month he takes the E6 advancement exam so at least they did not wait until he is already an ET1.