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Navy For Moms

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

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Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on August 15, 2015 at 4:47pm: Calls for Recruits / Letters from Home Project is the name. I am on my phone right now and cannot get the address- I will try to do so later tonight!

Comment by LindaGirl on August 15, 2015 at 4:36pm: Cath Bubbleheads, any chance you could get a hold of that Facebook page for me. I would love to write letters of encouragement to other sailors who have no one to write to, or are struggling. Thank you for your prayers...it's going to be so tough, I know it will just take time, but as you know, it's not easy.

Comment by madhoby on August 15, 2015 at 3:06pm: I feel you lindagirl. I get it. I have been in a funk as well with my boy out of pocket like that as well.

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on August 15, 2015 at 3:01pm: Lindagirl - I feel your pain and will pray for you. When I start feeling like that I have found that helping others stops the depression. Sometimes its a random act of kindness for someone, or getting involved with a cause.

Last January I helped to pack and ship care packages for Mollys Adopt a ship. Even though I knew my sailor would not benefit from this, I felt better knowing I would be helping another sailor.

I know there is a fb group where you can send letters of encouragement to recruits who are struggling or have no one to write to them.

Comment by LindaGirl on August 15, 2015 at 2:39pm: Navy moms, I don't even know how to begin this pray request, as I feel guilty even asking because there are so many bigger problems out there, but if anyone would understand,it would be you ladies. We have been blessed to have my son home with us for the past 2 weeks & it has been an absolute dream. Tomorrow, unfortunately, he heads back to Hawaii, & a few months after that, a long deployment, taking him into next year. My heart is breaking. It will be so hard to say "Good-bye" tomorrow. Knowing me, I will be going into a month long depression after he is gone, thinking about a week ago, 2 weeks ago, 3 weeks ago, etc. please keep me in your prayers, that I can get through this 1st month of him being gone, without too much difficulty. Keep my son in your prayers as well for a safe return to Hawaii & a safe deployment. I couldn't sleep at all last night. I hate myself for being this way. Thank you for your prayers.

Comment by madhoby on August 15, 2015 at 12:18pm: This is tougher than I expected. I don't like not being able to at least text my son even if I don't get to talk to him. At boot camp I was at least able to write letters so it wasn't as bad. I am still waiting on him to email as he said he would do it first. It just surprises me that it is tougher than I expected it to be as I have always raised him to be independent and to do his thing. All I cn say is man I have a new appreciation for the wives and kids of the military.

Comment by Cerise on August 13, 2015 at 8:19pm: William, I read the same thing. I very rarely wrote LOL because usually I didn't. Laugh out loud that is. Usually I smile at funny stuff so I do a smiley face, a la :-) or winky smile ;-)

No ha-ha's from here. :-)

Comment by Webby2014 on August 13, 2015 at 8:14pm: Our son will be home tomorrow on a two week leave. Excited to have him back in the house. Looking forward to hearing him sing in the shower. Friends in the house. Another plate at the dinner table.
Will try to savor each moment knowing he will not be home for the holidays this year. What a journey being a navy mom
Big navy hug to all

Comment by William in Nashua on August 13, 2015 at 3:10pm: Hello everyone I got an email from my son yesterday around 3:30 am haha. He is doing fine. Boat was out for 2 months came back a couple days and went right back out again and could be for quite a while it has already been several weeks. So he is a busy lad these days. I have to say haha from now on because I read an article that using Lol online is completely out of fashion now haha. You know they are busy when the email is just one paragraph and it ends with I have to go to work now.