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Navy For Moms

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.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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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Graduation Info
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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy Speak

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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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Dads on Moms.....com

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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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Comment by abbyblue on July 3, 2012 at 9:32pm

Comment by abbyblue on July 3, 2012 at 9:30pm

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 3, 2012 at 7:39pm: Badda bing, badda boom......

Comment by JackFlash on July 3, 2012 at 7:24pm: See? Told ya.... Mermaid Mafia.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 3, 2012 at 6:40pm

Comment by Craig on July 3, 2012 at 4:05pm: Concern - No I didn't leave my Gonads at the door. However, I do have Acute Angina....

Comment by Rod on July 3, 2012 at 3:10pm: Concernedad, dont know whether you had a chance to go on the boat, but I have some interior pics on my page. I sent you a friend invite, if you want to go and look at them.

Comment by Rod on July 3, 2012 at 3:00pm: He is an Aviation Boatswain Mate Handler second class. The handlers work on the hangar deck and on the flight deck. He is the Petty Officer in charge of Hangar Bay 2 of which there are 3 and is also a Director. The handlers are essentially the "parking garage" guys. Depending on your qualifications you may just chain and chock the planes when they are in place. As you gain various quals (15 or more), you may drive the tractors that pull the planes out under direction of a Director (yellow shirt) if you are not a yellow shirt then you are a blue shirt. Or you may run the elevators. There can be more than one Director either in the bay or on deck.

There are three types of ABs - Handlers (blue shirts ABHs), Equipment (green shirts or ABEs) and Fuel (purples or grapes ABFs).

In addition, one big qualification that is now required is to get your AW (Aviation Warfare) pin. Once you get that you can also qualify for SW (Surface Warfare). If you are not an aviation rate then you work on SW and vice versa. Therefore my son full title is ABH2 (AW/SW).

Does that help or did I give you to much info.?

Comment by Concernedad on July 3, 2012 at 1:29pm: Rod, guess I could Google it, but I'd rather hear from you. Not being military myself, the acronyms get away from me. Can you be just a tad more descriptive of what your son does?