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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 Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on April 28, 2012 at 11:24am: Speaking of engagements, I took this at the Iwo's homecoming in Nov 2010 when they returned from their four-month deployment with Continuing Promise '10. (I blurred out the name) Wonder how that went?! :)

Comment by navymom2011 on April 13, 2012 at 11:46pm: Praying for all, our sailor flies out Monday to join the IWO!

Comment by sandycain on April 13, 2012 at 12:36pm: Thoughts and prayers to the loved ones of the marines who lost their lives and to the injured marines of the Iwo Jima. This mom's heart is heavy with sadness. Praying for all our family members aboard the Iwo Jima.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on April 12, 2012 at 1:07pm: I'm so sorry to be posting this. Two Marines have been killed and two severely injured in the crash of an MV-22 Osprey flying from the Iwo Jima. Prayers for these Marines and their loved ones. News story: pilotonline,com

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on April 10, 2012 at 5:31pm: Contact the Ombudsman at iwoombudsman@gmail.com with your info and your sailor's name, rate, rank, and your relationship.

Same for the Iwo's Family Readiness Group: iwofrg@yahoo.com

Comment by navymom2011 on April 9, 2012 at 6:28am: How do I get on the mailing list?

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on April 8, 2012 at 7:41pm: Are you on the Ombudsman's list? If so, contact her and ask to be on the mailing list.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on April 8, 2012 at 4:08pm: Just got the new newsletter, looks good! Be sure to check the photos for your sailor :)

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on April 4, 2012 at 2:11pm: Congratulations Iwo! USS Iwo Jima ‘Breaks Out Green’ with Consecutive Safety Wins

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on April 3, 2012 at 3:55pm: A mom (Mary) in the Corpsman Moms and Dads group just shared this - funny!

"HOW TO SIMULATE LIFE IN THE NAVY"

1. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for six months straight.

2. Run all of the piping and wires inside your house on the outside of the walls.

3. Pump 10 inches of nasty, crappy water into your basement, then pump it out, clean up, and paint the basement "deck gray."

4. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go the scummiest part of town, find the most run down, trashy bar you can, pay $10 per beer until you're hammered, then walk home in the freezing cold.

5. Perform a weekly disassembly and inspection of your lawnmower.

6. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays turn your water temperature up to 200 degrees, then on Tuesday and Thursday turn it down to 10 degrees. On Saturdays, and Sundays declare to your entire family that they used too much water during the week, so all showering is secured.

7. Raise your bed to within six inches of the ceiling.

8. Have your next door neighbor come over each day at 5 am, blow a whistle so loud that Helen Keller could hear it and shout "Reveille, Reveille, all hands heave out and trice up."

9. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in the backyard at 6 am and read it to you.

10. Cook all of your food blindfolded, groping for any spice and seasoning you can get your hands on.

11. Eat the raunchiest Mexican food you can find for three days straight, then lock yourself out of the bathroom for 12 hours, and hang a sign on the door that reads "Secured-contact OA division at X-3053."

12. Submit a request form to your father-in-law, asking if it's OK for you to leave your house before 3 pm.

13. Invite 200 of your not-so-closest friends to come over, then board up all the windows and doors to your house for six months. After the six months is up, take down the boards, wave at your friends and family through the front window of your home...you can't leave until the next day, you have duty.

14. Shower with above-mentioned friends.

15. Make your family qualify to operate all the appliances in your home (i.e., dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc).

16. Walk around your car for four hours checking the tire pressure every 15 minutes.

17. Sit in your car and let it run for four hours before going anywhere. This is to ensure your engine is properly "lighted off."

18. Empty all the garbage bins in your house, and sweep your driveway three times a day, whether they need it or not. (Now sweepers, start your brooms, clean sweep down fore and aft, empty all trashcans over the fantail).

19. Repaint your entire house once a month.