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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: on Tuesday

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.

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

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Comment by Lgallagher on July 15, 2014 at 11:27am: CO-Twin SailorsMom - Question for you. Is one of your sailors on the USS Florida?

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 15, 2014 at 11:16am: Wow Mainmom, you must be so proud. How long has he been in the navy?

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 15, 2014 at 11:14am: I am getting very excited to go for the Power
School Graduation. I leave on the 28th. Then he will be coming home with me for leave!!! Will see if he sticks to his game plan, but he wants to serve on a sub, reup for sub again, then go for officer. He wants career. We will see if the government still allows that and if there still in a pension at the end of a career? Sure wish Washington would fins other ways to cut than cutting our military, those guys and gals deserve all they get and then some.

Comment by Kevsmom93 on July 15, 2014 at 9:23am: That's awesome ladies you must be very proud of your son's! I've heard becoming a nuke is a very long and arduous amount of training. There is a mom on Hawaii Mom's who was explaining all of her son's accomplishments recently I need to find it and share it with you here, very interesting.

Co Twin I saw Down Periscope when it was originally released and haven't seen it since. I know it's on Netflix and I need to watch it again :-) But I can't recall details such as the scene you're describing, sounds pretty funny.

Comment by MaineGrammy on July 15, 2014 at 8:55am: I think we got an invite for the Power School. It was a few years ago. I went down on the train with my friend in law (dil mom) as hubby was unable to go. Great graduation. He also went to Ballston Spa after that. Our son is a nuc officer so he does a little bit of everything.

Comment by bcgoldy03 on July 15, 2014 at 8:45am: Hi Moms

My son is a MM (machinists mate) responsible for the propulsion part of the nuclear reactor. I too received an invite to the Power School graduation in Goose Creek (Charleston) SC and it was a wonderful ceremony giving the graduates a wonderful pat on the back for completing this incredibly difficult program. It was very official and had important high ranking speakers etc...as well as awards for distinguished performance in certain areas. After that it was on to Prototype school for my son in Ballston Spa NY (Saratoga) which he loved and lived there for a little under a year before graduating and getting assigned to his sub.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 15, 2014 at 1:10am: Kevsmom...did you see the movie down periscope? Your son's job like the guy who electrocuted himself to connect the radio? My twins friend from here is training for sonar. He said that was just like his job LOL.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 15, 2014 at 1:05am: It must be just for power school. I was surprised when it came. It was from the CO of NNPTC and Said Official Business on it. Son asked if that gave me a minor heart attack LOL. I did not get one for his Twins Graduation and I never heard of anyone else getting one. So must just be power school. Funny thing is he still has a year to a year and half to go to finish nuke school. Power school is in the middle.

Comment by Kevsmom93 on July 15, 2014 at 12:06am: He is STS/ Sonar Tech Submarine he graduated A school on May 8th.

Just curious about the invitation to graduation? Is that typical only for that his job class? I don't remember any mom's ever mentioning receiving invitations to their sons graduation.