This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
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:
Events
**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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Latest Activity
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.)
N4M Merchandise
Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
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
Badge
Contact with a sailor
Views: 147
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by CeeCee on
-
Is your sailor on the Bush? If so, they will have email...and that's about it. But you can get Ship to Shore calling cards from AT&T online. Also, if they will be porting in other countries, you can get international calling cards. We talked to a rep at AT&T the other day and that's what they suggested. But ship to shore cards will work from the ship and is the only ones that are guaranteed to work on the ship. If and when they port, they could use their cell phone but will have international roaming charges so an international calling card would be cheaper in the long run, even if you got international on his/her cell phone, they still have roaming charges. Hope this helps.
My son has been on a ship twice, once for three weeks and then for a month and the only contact we had was email or when he ported for a few days in Florida.
-
-
Permalink Reply by AdamsDad on
-
Thanks CeeCee, and yes my son is going to be on the Bush when he finishes C school. I am excited for him, but I have gotten a little spoiled since boot camp ended, with the ample acess to phone calls and Facebook and whatnot. It was like he was just across town insted of across the country. Thanks very much for the info.
-
-
Permalink Reply by navymom58 - Shelton's Mom on
-
Thank you for this information, CeeCee. My son is on the Bush and although we are very excited for him, we will miss speaking with him. We were just speaking about a calling card on Saturday night. Now I know which one to get for him. Below, they mention a "different" email. Is this going to be different from his current military email address? Is the just for this deployment?
We will be traveling to Virginia to wave them off. Hope to see everyone there!
Robin
-
-
-
Robin, my son says the phones don't work very well on the ship....but still gonna get him a calling card.
Yes, the different email IS different from his current military email address. This will be assigned to him when he gets on the ship. It took 2-3 days for my son to get his, but it is different and it is for when he is on the ship only.
I won't be in Virigina to see them off, but going next week to spend the entire week down there.
-
-
-
I know what you mean....it's nice being able to text, talk on the phone and on facebook.....it's definitely different when they get on the ships.....it so very hard, that's why this site is so valuable....it's the extra support we need when they're gone.
-
-
-
Hey Adams Dad My name is Sharon My son has only been out on the ship once for thirty days We didnt have much contact at all He would contact us by cell when they were in port and he would talk to us via email but he had a different email address then normal Sometimes his emails came thru and sometimes not the same for ones that we sent him I hope this helps a little Have a great day
-
-
-
Adam's Dad, to elaborate on sharoncede's post...the "different" email will be assigned to your son when he gets to the ship...it won't be immediately, it takes a few days. Also, as sharoncede said, sometimes they come through and sometimes they do not. When they were training, they had periods of "no email". I'm not sure but it will probably be like that when he is on the ship since they were training for what it would be like when they are deployed.
-
-
-
AdamsDad, our son was deployed last July on the Nimitz and we mostly communicated by email. I would get one almost daily. One thing we did learn if he called from the ship that we would have to wait until he finished talking before we could reply. The timing was delayed and we could be talking and then the line would go dead but it didn't matter, getting to hear his voice was always wonderful. He would always call when he was in port and let us know where he was. Some mom's would skype with their sailors when they were in port. I think the ones who had their own laptops would take them to places with internet to do this.
-
-
-
Also remember No News is good News. That is what my sailor tells me.
-
-
Permalink Reply by stewfam on
-
Hello there - - I wasn't sure where to post these questions. I figured I might as well try here. My son will be leaving on the Bush on the upcoming departure. Does anyone know what time it actually will be leaving (morning/afternoon)? Also, do some sailors board the ship the day before ? I would love to actually see my son the night before he departs, but I am not sure that that is possible. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.
-
-
-
My son is also going out. He told me he has to be on board the night before. I think it was around 9:30. But it could depend on the squadron.
-
-
-
I would think that your sailor could also get a ship to shore card onboard at the ship's store. If it's sold there then it should be a good one for them or else there would be a mutiny..lol. Our son called once from the ship when he was on a DET cruise he said he got the calling card onboard. Also my son told me that his work email, (the .mil one) can also be used, any emails will be forwarded to him on the ship, he told me that when we were onboard the night before he left.
-
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
