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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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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USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7)

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For families and friends of sailors serving aboard the mighty USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7). New members, be sure to use the information in the Discussion "USS Iwo Jima's Ombudsman Team and the Family Readiness Group (FRG)." Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom, current group Admin

Location: Mayport FL and everywhere!
Members: 113
Latest Activity: Aug 26, 2019

USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) Videos

USS Iwo Jima Homecoming December 20, 2012 - a Cox Video Diary

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Comment by SailorDuncansMOM on October 5, 2012 at 7:43am: Thanks for the welcoming! It's been a long wait for our Sailors but we are definately getting closer than we once we're. This is my first go around with everything. The other day was my sons first bday away, boy. That was a tough one.

Can someone please post the other links aagain that maybe good to long into or become members to ?I need all help I can get being a newby :))

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 3, 2012 at 1:16pm: For anyone with interest in the TC, be sure your sailor communicates that to his/her chain of command, too :)

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 2, 2012 at 9:10pm: Tricia, when I was to go on the TC in '10, the weather was judged too rough for us to go out to the ship on the LCACs, so we (300+ friends and family members of sailors on the Iwo) had to turn around and return to Norfolk on the buses :( I was sooo sad, but being on the pier the next morning and experiencing the homecoming that way was awesome, too!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 2, 2012 at 9:07pm: Julie, go here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001529013591 and make a friend request, giving sailor's name and your relationship. There is an email address and phone number in the Discussion above about the Ombudsman Team and FRG.

Donnermcc - Same thing, the info for joining the FRG is in that Discussion.

Comment by julietaylor40 on October 2, 2012 at 11:24am: FRG is the Family Readiness Group. I get FRG information, but I am not a member of the Ombudsman. How do you do that?

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 1, 2012 at 4:34pm: marine_navymom is right; keeps "romance" OFF the ship. Having been to homecoming at the pier, I'd pick that anyway over the TC if I were a spouse, fiancée or GF/BF :) Get those banners ready!

Comment by PCilla88_OSGF on October 1, 2012 at 10:44am: I read somewhere that the Tiger Cruise is only for parents or friends of the sailor, not spouses or gfs /bfs. Is this true?

Comment by CDanielleR on September 30, 2012 at 8:19pm: Thanks Cmyhero! We have been together almost 5 years, he has only been in the Navy officially a year. But this proposal has been a long time coming in my opinion. lol! It has been tough for us, especially when we couldn't talk for a week. We email often and that helps a lot. I am on FB and I did request the frg and ombudsman on there today.

Comment by CDanielleR on September 30, 2012 at 7:31pm: Hello Everyone! I am new to the group. My sailor is attached to this ship and this is his first deployment, mine as well. Its hard not knowing where he is and when he will be back, but I also think he enjoys not being able to tell me also. lol! He likes to surprise me. We are technically engaged, I hope to get my official proposal when he returns. Any advice for me will be helpful? And I want to send him a care package, but I have no clue what to send. Thanks for all your help!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on September 26, 2012 at 1:25am: Our group is growing, cool! New members, be sure to check out the Ombudsman Team and FRG links above if you're not onboard with them already.