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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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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Good morning FMF moms! FMF dad here, congrats to all the new FMF Corpsman. My son earned his last year in the sandbox. He's been stateside a year in November already, time really does fly. He got new orders soon after getting home and is now blueside close to home and we love it, but he warned us not to get to comfortable thinking he won't be deployed again because even though he wears peanut butters now he's still FMF and would be in demand. The only constant in the Navy is change. LOL.
Tenn Navy Mom....OMG! That video needs a TISSUE ALERT. Thanks for posting it.
Definitely Mamawalrus. We do need to stick together. These guys are a special breed of corpsman. We are always here for each other no matter what. We are a special breed of moms. We give our kids to the Navy and the Marines and pray for the best.
Taping a box together tonight :)
Can you PM me the address as well? We have to stick together as this is a special kind of Sailor and us moms supporting each other is a big deal to me. I want our Sailors to feel that as well and know they are appreciated.
Marcy that would be great. I so love these guys. They are all amazing. I have the utmost respect for them. I'll pm you the address. It will go to my son and then he'll pass it out from there. Thanks a million in advance.
I am so fortunate that my corpsman is not in harm's way. Please tell him they're in our thoughts and prayers all the time.
MedicMom, would it be ok with you if I sent off a box to him and his guys?
Thank you Tenn Navy mom. Actually I am doing pretty good so far. I have put my faith and trust in God and his Marines. Praying that he stays safe. He is very homesick. I practically chat with him every other day right now. Helps a lot.
Thank you Tenn Navy Mom for getting me back on here. I need to stay on here more for the support of you all. My son just earned his FMF last week and will be getting pinned on his deployment in the next week. I had not talked to him since Christmas but he did send me a few message via FB. BUT today I was awakened by a phone call from him at 5:45 this morning.. of course it was the next day his time. LOL Talk about being surprised. It was so nice to hear from him finally. We had not talked with him since Christmas.
I hope everyone is doing well..
Medicmom....good luck to your son. Do you know when he is going to retake board ?
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