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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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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: on Tuesday

READ THE "PAGES" FIRST!

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 bcgoldy03 on August 26, 2014 at 12:35pm: I am wondering if there are any moms on here who have sons on USS Virginia in Groton? I rode up Sunday to visit my son at the house he is renting with a bunch of other USS Virginia guys and i have been thinking about the moms group and wondering if i just met any of your sons?! All such wonderful nice polite guys. I made them a big dinner before i headed home.

Comment by LindaGirl on August 26, 2014 at 12:11pm: LoriM, my husband & I watch the show as well, & we do enjoy it, probably for the same reason both you & your husband do, because our sons are in the Navy. I do love the situations they get themselves into though. It's good entertainment & am sorry that last Sunday was the season finally already.

Comment by LoriM (div 337--Kevin's submom) on August 26, 2014 at 9:34am: I don't know if anyone has watched the show "The Last Ship" it is on TNT on Sundays. It started this summer. My son was home and got to see a couple of the episodes. It takes place on the USS St. James(?). It is a Navy carrier doing research. My son would just laugh at half the things they were doing wrong. It was ok. I think my husband and I liked watching it because it had to do with the Navy. There were things that we even knew don't really happen.

Comment by LoriM (div 337--Kevin's submom) on August 26, 2014 at 9:32am: Jeanette, I will have to get the book now since it about the Nevada. If it is kind of a love story I doubt my son would like it. I send him books that are true stories and have to do with the military. He has always liked reading those types of books. He takes them when they are underway.

Comment by LindaGirl on August 25, 2014 at 7:17pm: Janette, I loved your story about the book. You can see though how if a person misunderstood the contents of the book, it could be very scary.

Comment by ProudNavyMom#1 on August 25, 2014 at 7:13pm: Oh, Kevsmom, I didn't know you had a bad experience at eh airport, you did seem a little shaken, but I never knew, I thought you were just sad to see your boy go. And here I was trying to chat with you and your family and I was in such an emotional high that I just kept talking and laughing. Then when our boys were leaving, all I wanted to do was talk to you about how proud we were of our boys, and on, and on, and on!!! HAHAHAHAH Mercy! You prob thought when is this woman going to stop talking!!! HAHAHAHAHA

It was finally when you got up and said you didn't want to miss saying goodbye to Kevin that I realized oh asdxxdkfjjl; I want to say bye to my son too!!!! HAHAHAHA And ran towards the gate and hugged my boy and started taking pics of each of them!!! HAHAHA As you can see, I'm always in my own little world... HAHAHA I'd almost forgotten about that memory. :) ahhhhh How much they've grown since! God bless them all

Comment by ProudNavyMom#1 on August 25, 2014 at 7:00pm: Oh, CoTwin, just read your post! I am so sorry you both had to go through that! I'm telling you, they feel just like we feel! They are our boys! I'm glad you won't let that happen again! God bless you always! Your boys know how you are. I pray for healing of that memory and happy ones replace that one. Big hug my dear!!!

Comment by ProudNavyMom#1 on August 25, 2014 at 6:57pm: Tina!!! How happy I am for you and your Sailor!! You got to talk to him and let me tell you, he feels just as happy when he sees you!!!! Even when they don't show it prob bc their roomies are there too, but boy I bet his little heart was just as happy as yours was!!! HAHAHAHA! I am so happy for both of you!!! God bless all of you always!!! Big NMH!!!!

Comment by ProudNavyMom#1 on August 25, 2014 at 6:52pm: Kevsmom, I'm so happy you got your call!!!! So sorry you both missed it!!! But he's thinking about y'all!!!! :) That's the best and happy part!! I hope you get to talk soon!!! God's blessings to you and all our kids!!!!

Comment by SunflowerMom on August 25, 2014 at 6:40pm: Lindagirl, I have a funny story about the book 'undetected'. I read it in June and while my son who was deployed on the Nevada, I loaned it to my 87year old dad to read. I remember sitting with Dad who is sharp as a tack, explaining that it was just a coincidence that the ship had the same name. Told him repeatedly that it was fiction, said I just wanted him to enjoy it and while he was reading it to remember their is no way it was a true story. I asked my brother who was a submariner if he thought I made it clear enough and he thought it was right on target. fast forward a few weeks... my sailor comes home and one of the first few he called were my parents...I am lucky that my kids and parents are close like that. Back to my story... my sailor calls me laughing, I guess my dad took the book as factual and asked so many questions that my sailor got off the phone quickly... and called me. 10 minutes later I am heading over to my parents having a book discussion, assuring my parents that the book is fiction.

Thanks, for.reminding me, I need to pick the book up before all the peeps in that retirement community have read the story. I liked reading it, it was light enough reading and close enough that I received comfort about my sailors deployment.