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:
Events
**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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ArgoAway
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- Grover, MO
- United States
ArgoAway's Groups
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Naval Aviation
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What's an Ombudsman and …
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SAILOR RESCUE LIST
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Moms of Officers
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- A little about me:
- Married over 30 years, my husband and I always shared the same priorities--top of list, always, were our children. Every single day since becoming parents, we shared our son and daughter's childhood with them. The time, magic, hope, dreams, discussions, excursions and adventures we shared together as a family, were the most important and incredible years we experienced, and both my husband and I knew how lucky we were and appreciated those years as very special gifts to our own lives.
Our daughter, an extraordinary young woman, is now an 8th grade math teacher at a school, in a district, that reinforces everything wonderful she believed about education and the people who chose the same path she did. She is also the junior varsity volleyball coach for the high school girls team.
Our son (and his wife) explored a different path. Different from every future he considered throughout public school and college. After graduating with a degree in political science, our son knew he wanted to do something for our country and determined that the first thing he should consider was to literally serve the country. He enlisted in the Navy, graduated from the nuclear program, recently attended and achieved graduation from OCS, and received his commission in Aviation. He is now training to become a pilot.
He is accurately, in the lyrics of Jimmy Buffett, "The Son of a Son of a Sailor." His paternal grandfather also served in the Navy. He would have been so proud.
- I am here to support my
- Son/Daughter
- Stage of (Sailor’s) Navy career?
- Officer
- When I heard “Navy,” I...
- Was concerned or afraid
- The Navy offers opportunities that...
- It has been very difficult to retain the close relationship we once enjoyed with our son. He is dedicated to his life in the Navy, which of course has included a lot of hard work, study and fitness. He married his college sweetheart and enjoys any time they find to share together. I have lupus and other immune problems and rely on a service dog. Travel for us is a little more complicated but we would be proud and delighted to visit him anywhere!
- Our Navy experience so far...
- It was positive and maturing. Our relationship has grown stronger.
ArgoAway's Photos
"This Is What Lupus Looks Like" video by L.A. Lupus Lady
Recently a Facebook-Twitter friend contacted me about participating in a lupus video she was putting together. I was honored to be asked, and sent her the requested pictures of myself with my service dog, Elliot. Please enjoy the video and pass it along to your friends. Thank you, Jason the Argonaut. P.S. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX0vS45ntsg by Amanda @LALupusLady on Twitter and L.A. Lupus Lady on Facebook
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
~ Albert Einstein
"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
~Albert Einstein
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
- Albert Einstein
From the Washington Yacht Club
"It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."
~Sir Francis Drake
"The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance."
~Annie Van De Wiele
"Ships are the nearest thing to dreams that hands have ever made." -~Robert N. Rose
"For me, my craft is sailing on,
Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.
Whate'er the final harbor be
'T is good to sail upon the sea!"
~John Kendrick Bangs
If there are any other moms of married sailors - I would sure like to connect! Especially if they are in the earlier stages of marriage and uncomfortable with including mom and wife.
Thank you.
Welcome to Navy For Moms!
You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions. Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!
If you haven’t already, please make sure that you review our Community Guidelines to learn the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the community. Also, check out this Internet OPSEC Safety Video.
Enjoy your time here! I look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :)
-Colleen