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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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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

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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.

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Comment by Annette on June 4, 2015 at 11:04am: And I have seen pics of swim calls and steel beach parties.

Comment by Annette on June 4, 2015 at 11:03am: Lori, my son had a swim call from the sub. I think it was just a swim, no bbq topside. He said it wss pretty cool. Nothing but ocean.

Comment by LoriM (div 337--Kevin's submom) on June 4, 2015 at 10:56am: I have yet to hear of these steal beach parties from my son. Are these real or are you just being fictitious?

Comment by Annette on June 4, 2015 at 10:50am: Funny you should mention the steel beach parties, Mark. My son's boat had a two hour swim call last week, in the middle of whatever ocean they weren't in!
Proud to say our sailors is no longer a nub, nor a slimy wog!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on June 3, 2015 at 9:10pm: As usually mark, a wealth of info. I've been singing Sponge Bob all day. LOL

His twin's ship just had its second steel beach party of their deployment, They haven't been gone that long LOL FB posted pictures looks like fun. Lots of good eats too. Weight lifting competition, Tug o war, golf, fishing and food.

Comment by Kevsmom93 on June 3, 2015 at 8:50pm: Genie-you beat me to it, I was getting ready to share this article too. I am loving all the photos! I was never able to visit while my son was in Groton so these pics are awesome!

Mark- My son can concur with what you described. He says everything is fine when you're submerged, it's when you surface that some will feel the discomforts of seasickness.

Hi Linda, I hope you get that hug in the near future!

Comment by Mark on June 3, 2015 at 8:36pm: Oh, I should add that submarines generally don't surface at sea, 'cept maybe for one of those mythical steel beach parties I thought only Aussie boats did. Submarines are much more secure submerged, so that's where they prefer to be.

Comment by Genie on June 3, 2015 at 8:16pm: Interesting pictures on Groton base-
The Navy's most important submarine base - Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-navys-most-important-submarine-b...

Comment by Mark on June 3, 2015 at 8:06pm: The only time seasickness is an issue on a submarine is while they're on the surface. Submerged, it's like an airplane without turbulence. Since he's in Pearl, any seasickness would be for less than an hour, because boats there spend very little time surfaced. That's because the islands are the tops of undersea volcanoes, and subs reach a spot to safely dive shortly after leaving the Harbor. My first underway was out of SF Bay; the continental shelf around there goes out quite a ways, so we couldn't dive for a number of hours - that was fairly miserable, because modern submarines are shaped for optimal performance submerged, which means that they roll more on the surface than a surface ship of similar size.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on June 3, 2015 at 6:47pm: Thanks William.. It was nice he texted then followed thru with a nice phone call before departing.

He said his boat will be going into dry dock and that may be either in Hawaii or Norfolk. He is not really excited to have to turn right around and move to norfolk. Would not want to east coast it again. Praying it will stay in Hawaii.