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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 MaryBeth on August 7, 2015 at 2:34pm: We stayed in the Navy lodge there. They were so wonderful and supportive of our sailors & family. One thing I didn't know is that the room doors are decorated for the sailors with all kinds of congrats and cards/balloons, etc. I spent the evening I got there at the dollar store picking up decorations for our door :-) Not sure if it is traditon at other hotels but it certainly is there. I will say that he loved reading all the stuff on the door. Enjoy.....it's an emotionally charged time for the sailors and families!!!

Comment by Amy L. on August 7, 2015 at 2:23pm: Thanks Navymom9828! I know he will want his as soon as he can get it!! And yes Marybeth I can't wait until next week, his PIR is 8/14!!! Already have everything booked and just waiting to go!!!! I probably won't sleep for a week!!!! :)

Comment by MaryBeth on August 7, 2015 at 2:15pm: You're very welcome!!! I remember as clear as if it were yesterday. I paced and paced never letting my phone out of sight or ear shot :) Will you go to PIR? It was fantastic!!

Comment by Amy L. on August 7, 2015 at 2:09pm: Thanks so much Marybeth!!! I'm sure he will want it if he can have it!!! I'm sitting on pins and needles today, waiting on 3pm (I'm on eastern time) and all I've been able to do is pickup my phone every 5 seconds, look at the clock, then pick up my phone, over & over & over again!!! :)

Comment by MaryBeth on August 7, 2015 at 2:05pm: Hi...I'm don't often comment but I do read alot of the comments. I remember pacing waiting for that call in March of this year. Hang in there....you'll get it. My son is in Groton, CT at sub school. They are able to have cars; however, they have to "earn" the privelage so it may be several weeks/months before he can have it. Trust me...he will let you know. We had his car shipped to him via a shipping company. Cost a small fortune but it was his dime, and according to him, worth it:)

Comment by Amy L. on August 7, 2015 at 1:57pm: Nervous New Sub mom, I hope anyway. I'm waiting on the "I'm a sailor" call today!!!!! I got a letter from him yesterday, he said he got his orders to Sub-School and I'm guessing this is in Groton CT. He wants his car?? Can they have a car while in school, he said he would be there 10 months?? I'm just not sure of the rules with that?? Thanks!!!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on August 5, 2015 at 6:59pm: Jphanna, One of mine was in Greece a week on liberty. He liked it. have fun. We all travel vicariously through you. LOL

Comment by LindaGirl on August 5, 2015 at 6:39pm: Webby2014...everything you said, goes ditto for me. Our son is also home for a few weeks & he keeps the door to his room closed, so I won't have to see the mess, as there is no room to walk, anywhere in his room. Good thing he has his own room at home. When he leaves, he too will be preparing to go out for his long deployment in the fall, so we won't see him again, at the earliest, not until next spring. I love his friends, & am glad to see them over here at our house, hanging out with him & his younger brother, who just got out of the Marines, this past spring or they'll all pile in several cars & go somewhere for the evening, catching up on lost time. (I miss not having his friends around when he is gone, so good to see them now). As tysmom & Johanna have said, its not going to be easy to say, "Good-bye" when the time comes, so I am just enjoying the moment & times that he is here with us, as I know the time will come too soon that he'll have to go back to Hawaii, being a long way from New York.

Comment by Johanna on August 5, 2015 at 12:26pm: We never like them leaving! I have one in Japan, heading back, one heading out soon, for a long time and I am bopping around Greece for a month and a half... we find each other eventually and share our experiences...;)))