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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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.

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

Events

**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed.  Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).  

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED.  Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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Awesome Thomas' Proud Mom
  • 70, Female
  • Ohio
  • United States

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A little about me:
I live in eastern Ohio with my mother. My only child - my son is an Air Traffic Controller assigned to the USS Makin Island. I was born and raised in Ohio but moved to Tampa, Florida in 1971 and lived and worked there until Jan. 2007 when I retired from a County government job after 32+ years and returned to Ohio. I am currently employed part time at our local senior center and I also volunteer there.
I am here to support my
Son/Daughter
Stage of (Sailor’s) Navy career?
Enlisted
When I heard “Navy,” I...
Was proud and encouraged it
The Navy offers opportunities that...
Patience and communication are probably the two most important things I have learned. The Navy has their own timetable and no amount of fretting is going to change the way things are and eventually things will all turn out ok although not necessarily on my schedule. He has now completed boot camp, A school in Pensacola, duty assignment in San Diego, back to Pensacola for C school, then to Mississippi to board his ship for their trip around South America to San Diego for their commissioning and now preparing for deployment. I have survived and he has thrived. He has become so much more mature and each day I am filled with more pride in his accomplishments and in witnessing the wonderful adult he has become, more pride than I even realized I was capable of feeling the day before.
Our Navy experience so far...
It was positive and maturing. Our relationship has grown stronger.

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At 4:27pm on April 28, 2008, Navy for Moms Admin said…
Hello Laurie :)
Welcome to our group!
We are glad you have joined us : ) My name is Catherine the Admin, and I am here to help you with any questions and concerns dealing with the site. For your Navy questions, I encourage you to take advantage of the wisdom and knowledge within the community (in the groups and forums) and start asking (and reading and sharing) away! Also, when you have a chance, please check out our videos and photos.
I have written a few house rules for this site. Please read these links:

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Admin Tip: Keep it Civil!

Admin Tip: Be Best Friends w/ the Search Button

Enjoy your time here and I look forward to reading more about you.
Sincerely, Catherine

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