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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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Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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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

THE BOTTOM OF THE COLUMN

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New to this life? SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW NAVY MOMS

Need an Ombudsman? OMBUDSMAN REGISTRY

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Comment by LindaGirl on September 19, 2016 at 8:24am: Lynn G. Best of luck to your son. It sounds like the Navy has helped your son in so many ways. Glad to know he is going back to college & taking advantage of the military benefits.

Comment by philly_mamasota on September 18, 2016 at 5:46pm: John and Yvonne: That's good news about the ministry in your home. I will check out our page and would like your number so I can pass it on to him. I'll be praying for your ministry in VA Beach.

Comment by Jenco911 on September 16, 2016 at 10:12am: Thank you for the encouragement cath bubblehead mom!!

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on September 16, 2016 at 7:57am: Jenco911 - Being a submariner is sort of like eating an elephant - you do it one bite at a time. In the Navy there are always more quals (qualifications). As long as he stays focussed and keeps working, he will be fine!

Comment by Jenco911 on September 16, 2016 at 7:46am: Hello everyone! My son is still in RT but his job is SECF so he's headed to Groton after he graduates. Praying he does well. Reading everything that submariners have to do and qualify for is overwhelming!

Comment by LindaGirl on September 16, 2016 at 12:51am: Cath Bubblehead, Best of luck with your new life in Florida. What a surprise that you moved to Florida, just in time to miss a New England winter!

Comment by bcgoldy03 on September 15, 2016 at 11:03pm: Ladies, been watching, following quietly since then, so good to hear all is well for you and your sons. I still have an 11 year old son who is heavily involved in activities after school so I am always short on time. My son has been deployed, underway multiple times and I no longer feel debilitating anxiety when he goes, know he will be just fine, and perhaps in his case, it's even better, time passes faster, when he is underway and so busy. I occasionally comment to offer info or help along a newbie mom but mostly just enjoy seeing all the success and accomplishments that pour in daily. Stay well ladies, lots of love and good wishes, hope we get to meet again before too long, Rebecca

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on September 15, 2016 at 10:31pm: LindaGirl - that's wonderful news! Yes, Rebecca, you, I & LindaGirl had lunch almost 2 years ago. My son is stationed at Kings Bay and we just moved to Florida, so hopefully we will get to see him soon.

Comment by LindaGirl on September 15, 2016 at 10:15pm: Hi Rebecca, I do remember our lunch date, & the fun we had meeting each other. Thank you for offering your son to talk with mine, if need be. Luckily, he has an older brother who went through everything my youngest will be going through at Groton, so I know he'll be getting a lot of advice from his older brother, who is now stationed in Hawaii on a sub.

Comment by bcgoldy03 on September 15, 2016 at 10:10pm: Hi @LindaGirl It's Rebecca from CT My son has been a Machinist Mate on a Sub stationed here in Groton for several years now. I think we met at lunch?! Please message me if you have any questions or if your son would like to talk to my son to ask questions. Congrats it is a great job!