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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

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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.

NOTE: THERE ARE MORE PAGES THAN DISPLAYED -

FOR A COMPLETE LIST, CLICK ON "VIEW ALL" AT

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Comment by mrsb on October 3, 2014 at 12:07am: KWLs mom, congratulations for your son and for you! This is so hard for all of them/us, the waiting, the wondering. It's always so wonderful to hear about all of our Sailors and their accomplishments. So happy for you!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on October 2, 2014 at 11:24pm: OOO another fun one would be nuclear Hot and spicy treats.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on October 2, 2014 at 11:23pm: will post the recipe discussion tomorrow I promise. Life has been a little crazy. I bought a house over the internet viewing 65 pictures my agent posted. and am getting a crown on a tooth. Am trading the crown for a painting I did. I want to set it up like one on a private group I am on with different sections that everyone can post to, such as, Main Dishes, Sides, treats and sweets, soups and salads, breakfast. anybody want to suggest clever names like on sub or nuke topics. Like Light as a Surfacing Sub diet fare.

Comment by KWL's mom on October 2, 2014 at 11:18pm: Thanks to all. LindaGirl, I read somewhere that they usually Do take their tests while underway. Mine is also underway, but I got an e-mail from him. And LoriM, I am going to complain to my son because he didn't send me the time, and you were told the exact time. LOL He got his the day after your son. I wonder how many are pinned in one ceremony. I don't know when his ceremony was.

Comment by LindaGirl on October 2, 2014 at 10:38pm: KWL...Congratulations, to your son on getting his dolphins. What a wonderful poem, and so creative, as well! My son hopes to get his dolphins by the end of the month, but don't think we'll hear how he did for awhile, as he'll be underway by then, till sometime in December.

Comment by ProudNavyMom#1 on October 2, 2014 at 10:21pm: Awh KWL that was bittersweet and so true!! You have a very gifted Sailor there. In more ways than One! Congratulations on his Dolphins!!!

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on October 2, 2014 at 9:58pm: Congratulations KWL's Mom! Thats great!

Just remember this about failing: You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. ~Johnny Cash

We all failed at waking when we started out - it really makes us stronger - it does not - or should not define us!

We mom's tend to look at other families and only see the successes, not the struggles - I am glad he has his fish - that was a wonderful poem!

Comment by KWL's mom on October 2, 2014 at 9:49pm: I'm guilty. Guilty of reading everyone's posts and saying to myself, "That's great", "Congratulations", "Great, a visit from your sailor". But I don't take time to let you all know. I do share in your joy, and I'm so glad you're all on here. When my son took his dolphin test several months ago, I didn't write, because he failed. I wondered how many others didn't pass the first time. So for any of you that your sailor doesn't pass the first time, maybe next time. :) Here is part of the latest letter from my son: ...for my Dolphin's ceromony we have to do a "short story" on a famous submarine, so, I chose the H.L. Hunley, (Civil War) but, me being me, I personalized it. I made mine a poem. And since I know you love to read my poems, I will send it to you, so here it is-
So I decided to do my story
On a sub that’s dated back in history
During the Civil War, year 1863
We have the tail of the H. L. Hunley.
Now this story is tragic, and full of sorrow,
But made a difference for the subs of tomorrow
It went from a thought, to a theory, to a test
As a dear Mr. Hunley funded the quest
Yet during this time, of trial and error
Families lost their dear brave strong sailor
They were determined, to sink New Ironsides
First, however, they had to beat the tides
They had to find how to dive and to rise
How to see, how to breathe, to Pulverize
Till at last, they figured it all out
And set sail for their battle that’d count
A new target was in the line of sight
As they pushed forward in the dark of night
Creeping up, to their off-guard prey
Arriving undetected, with a bomb at play
They rammed and devastated the Housatonic
The explosion surely felt more than platonic
But this story ends not, a complete victory
For the crew was wiped out, by the wrath of the sea.

Just had to share. and YES, he got his dolphins this time!!

Comment by MOMofDREW2.0 on October 2, 2014 at 2:27pm: LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT BunkerQB! The all caps I MEAN IT MOM! says it all. My nuke is home for a couple of weeks before reporting to his sub. What an adventure! I've joined his boat's FB FRG. It's a closed group, but not secret.

Comment by LoriM (div 337--Kevin's submom) on October 2, 2014 at 10:57am: BunkerQB, too funny. Sounds like my son. I try not to tell him too much that we talk about on here because I can see him rolling his eyes.

Hoosiermamma, good luck to you and your son.