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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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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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Comment by Storymom on December 31, 2016 at 5:39pm

Comment by Storymom on December 25, 2016 at 12:10pm

Comment by Storymom on December 23, 2016 at 6:19pm: Our Navy boy got in last night at SeaTac! Hurrah. We got him for just a week this time♥

Comment by Storymom on December 23, 2016 at 6:18pm: momof2sailors; so very sad...heartfelt sympathy & hugs to your dear son & that loving family. ♥ Send your boy a card or two of support and lend a listening ear if he does want to talk it out -hope he does? I'm sure the Navy offers counseling, memorial services, grief services, during times like this as a Squadron or unit? Wish you could be with your guy to really see how's he handling it? this is heart-wrenching....

Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

—Rita Schiano

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

—Sarah Dessen

Comment by momof2sailors on December 14, 2016 at 2:32am: I just got back yesterday from seeing my son and pinning him. Everything was good until last night. I found out that after my son dropped me off at the airport yesterday and he got home only to find out that one of his shipmates (a friend of his) they think committed suicide. Will now more after the investigation. It was another shipmate that found him. I feel at a loss for words to say to him. I just want to put my arms around him and shield him from the pain. He won't talk about it. A friend of his mom reached out to me to get his phone number so that her son could call him.They were stationed together in Japan. The squadron are all off work till Thursday so hopefully they can try to work thru it. And seek counseling if needed.

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Comment by ibmom on December 6, 2016 at 8:38am: Posting so I won't be deleted. Our son is still at Whidbey.

Comment by Storymom on December 5, 2016 at 11:50pm: omment by Storymom just now
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** Connectwithnavy...Welcome! your grandson must be stationed in Bangor then? have you joined that group on here too? (Kitsap, bremerton, Bangor group??) that might be helpful too. And maybe a nuke group? Just great to be in groups that are related to his work, deployments and type of craft too. Here's the sub moms group:http://navyformoms.ning.com/group/submoms And the local Kitsap/Bangor/Bremerton group: http://navyformoms.ning.com/group/hunkerdownhereif

Comment by connectwithnavy on December 4, 2016 at 4:39pm: Thank you for allowing me to see the conversations of members of this group. If there's a group for USS Kentucky sailors, please advise (I'm sure there's not a USS Kentucky Grandmothers group, but I keep hoping).

Comment by connectwithnavy on December 4, 2016 at 4:34pm: I'm the grandmother of a sailor on the USS Kentucky Gold Crew. I do not live near his parents so I get limited information. Please allow me to join and keep up with the activity of my only grandson (I miss him, but am proud that he is serving our country).