This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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.
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:
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Now hear this! Now hear this! This is a group for you Dads out there. If you've been to other groups and just can't find the information you're looking for, this would be the place to ask.
And gosh darn it, men have feelings and miss their sailors too!
So come onboard and batten down your hatches.
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Latest Activity: Dec 5, 2017
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Thanks, Concernedad. Good to know!
Oh yeah, and it's free!
My daughter was telling us about Google Voice. This should be a great option while our son is in Bahrain. You can create your own phone number and leave messages on it, and it turns them into email form. It can go direct to their phone or computer. You all might want to check it out if you haven't already.
One of the great things compared to his last couple of years at home is that our son seems to love to tell us about his school and life at Goose Creek. It's like talking to a real adult. You can tell he's found something meaningful to do with his life and is feeling great about that. So far it's only been through Skype but we hope to get him back home for a visit between A school and Nuclear Power school sometime in October.
DramaSoul, way to go. These times are the special times...Times we will remember...Celines song is overwhelming when it applies to our lives. I put the song on while I am writing this. Where is my hankershift.
Had the best Friday yesterday. With my son home on leave, we went to the gym together (we did VERY different work outs). Then we went to see "Star Trek Into The Darkness" which we both enjoyed. After a bite to eat it was home again. Just so much fun to hang out with him and talk.
Yeah, I've got my sailor home on leave now, and with my daughter also home visiting, it's the first time we've all been together in 3 years. So proud to say both of my kids have turned out great. However, once leave is over, he's headed to Bahrain, so I'll have something new to worry about.
I've been thinking it's a little quiet over here too. Seems like most fathers don't seem to mind going on whatever other group is specific to their child's status or rate. Anybody dealing with anything specific to being a father of a sailor. I've just been so proud to see the change in my son. I hope at least some of it was from what we taught him but he wouldn't give us the satisfaction of seeing as a snotty teenager. But the maturity he displays now following bootcamp and the first few weeks of nulcear A school has been tremendously gratifying and makes me feel much better about his future.
FTLW...love the comics! :-)
Concernedad...well...do you have something to offer besides comments that it is deader than Horatio Hornblower? Just sayin'.
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