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

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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darlene a.
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A little about me:
Married, mom of two adult children, mother-in-law of two, grammy of two, "pack leader" to two German Shepherds. Proud Navy mom of son heading off to OCS Aug. 22nd.
I am here to support my
Son/Daughter
Stage of (Sailor’s) Navy career?
Waiting to leave for Boot Camp
When I heard “Navy,” I...
Was proud and encouraged it

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At 11:14am on August 28, 2010, tbear48 said…
(con'td Part 2) i guess there is a text limit on these chat boxes! well, long story short - we were frantic to try and figure out if it had been him, pretty sure it was not as we have not heard a peep since. they wouldn't be calling from newport from a jupiter, FL cell phone . . . would they?? not with bad news? do they even let them call if they've - god forbid - wound up H group or worse. i don't even like to say it out loud - lol!! does your hubby know how that works? i don't think i've done this much praying in my life and never thought i would be this happy to NOT get a phone call from my son!!
At 11:04am on August 28, 2010, tbear48 said…
darlene - just wanted to let you know that yes indeed! our husbands have chatted on NDs and mine knew right away that your husband is mike (aucoin - how do you pronounce that? ?). my husband's name is also mike!!! last night a phone call came through from jupiter, FL and my husband just about went into cardiac arrest b/c we couldn't pick it up -our computer was disconnected (rebooting) and so was our phone - tho on the t.v. screen we could see that a call was coming in. our tv/computer/phone lines are all bundled into our cable service and when the computer is unplugged . . . so is the phone - but somehow the t.v. still works!!. ANYWAY! he was terrifed that we were getting the "dreaded" phonecall from our son b/c the first time he called us, he was using a phone that had a FL area code. (to be con'td!)
At 2:04pm on August 27, 2010, tbear48 said…
hi darlene! well! we have so much in common! lol. i too am pack leader (tho husband may disagree with who reeeeally is the pack leader around here. . . ) of two chubby french bulldogs - sophie and bebe - have two kiddies - 1 of each and it's my son who is in OCS. neither of mine are married yet and no grandkid - i expect i will be quite elderly before that day comes!! my husband and i compare notes at the end of the day as to who we've "spoken" to on navy dads and navyformoms - and i bet they have connected!!! (what's his handle???) i am also still fumbling my way through learning how to navigate on these sites! you are not alone!!
At 11:43am on August 23, 2010, Navy for Moms Admin said…
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 OPSEC Internet Safety Video

Enjoy your time here and we look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :)
-Colleen and Elizabeth
 
 
 

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