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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 Shoup Moms

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Moms of children serving on the USS Shoup.

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/ussshoupmoms
Members: 36
Latest Activity: Aug 6, 2017

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Comment by Sarah's mom. Ship 07 DIV 077 on February 25, 2013 at 12:02pm: Lol, I know. I have never used skype. perhaps my youngest daughter could help me

Comment by spyder013 on February 25, 2013 at 11:19am: Lol! Make sure you have your Skype app on...I had mine turned on but volume down and missed first call...oops. Hopefully you will hear today...:)

Comment by Sarah's mom. Ship 07 DIV 077 on February 25, 2013 at 11:00am: I meant to say , that I hope that she will try to skype with us.

Comment by Sarah's mom. Ship 07 DIV 077 on February 25, 2013 at 10:13am: We have not skyped yet, but I she will try that with us

Comment by spyder013 on February 25, 2013 at 9:37am: Sarah's mom - hopefully you hear soon! Do you guys Skype? Just remember the old saying... "No news is good news"! Frustrating though, when we hear so little. Maybe it's practice for when no communications are allowed? Then this website is going to be a mess....lol
Have a great day everyone!

Comment by Sarah's mom. Ship 07 DIV 077 on February 25, 2013 at 7:19am: I appreciate all of the information posted out here. This website is a Godsend to me, as my daughter has not contacted me lately. This is her first deployment, so I am nervous as well. I appreciate the support and the sharing. It helps keep me sane knowing that we are all going through the same thing=aka worrying and wondering about how our sailors are doing.
Thanks to all of our Navy moms and their sons and daughters.

Comment by Tmon on February 24, 2013 at 10:31pm: I have to say that I am so happy to have a group to share the worry, concern as well as the pride at what amazing children we have raised. My son is also not a good communicator so I cherish all of the news you all share. The good and the bad. Thank you all for your support.

Comment by spyder013 on February 24, 2013 at 9:32pm: Sorry my phone has been misbehaving while I was coming back from MVP. Anyhow, I totally agree with all of you! WE need a place to feel safe and share our worries as well as the good stuff we can share. This is a first deployment for probably many of us so we need advice from those of you who have had previous experience;)! Thanks for understanding our fears.

Comment by Sharpie's Mom on February 24, 2013 at 8:21pm: Joirenee....we worry, we're Mom's, that part of the job description...it's just comforting to be part of a group that understands how we feel.... :)

Comment by joirenee on February 24, 2013 at 7:35pm: Absolutely no problem! I suppose I am still new to this website and having my son actually on a Navy ship. I probably should not have said anything but I waited a couple of days and still felt the need to say something! I am glad you were not mad at me for expressing my thoughts. I was just so freaked. So I have to weigh the balance--would I mind getting scared occasionally but at least know something and stay on this site or do I want to be dumb to everything that is happening with my son's ship and thereby not get freaked sometimes? The answers is ALWAYS that I would want to know even if it may be a rumor so let me apologize and I will toughen up knowing that, occasionally, because we are Moms and we worry, rumors will fly. And, like you, I would like to have a place where I can cast my fears and worries to fellow moms and know they will understand. Keep the info coming girls!