This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

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 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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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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10.13.2011

Im new to this site, so im still getting used to it and fixing all the tweeks. The reasoning for making this site was mostly made this so i could have support for when Aeron is away or deployed on a mission. I looked around the internet and this was the best Navy support site i could find. It seems like a simple easy way to meet other wives/moms/girlfriends of Navy guys and hear theyre stories. Im young, im only 19 years old..however my life is moving quickly. My boyfriend and i are…

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Added by amheroxm1 on October 13, 2011 at 7:38pm — 1 Comment

Pensacola Florida

I plan on visiting my kid in Pensacola once she's stationed in Pensacola for A school.  I'm not familiar with the area and am looking at the hotels within the area, does anyone know which hotels are near the Navy school?

Added by Chemobear's Mom on October 13, 2011 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

Happy Birthday America's Navy!

For 236 years, the Navy has answered the call to those in need. Thank you to all of brave and dedicated men and women who have served. We salute you!

Added by Navy for Moms Admin on October 13, 2011 at 1:16pm — No Comments

Mail Call!

I just graduated from boot camp on June 3rd. I was hoping to share a little info with the mom's here. The mail that you send them the first week won't be read until their RDC's allow them to receive it. Most likely close to the end of week 1. They also aren't allowed to send out mail except for Sunday's. That doesn't start until the weekend of week one which should be the 23rd of this month. Once they are allowed to receive mail they can get it and read it EVERYDAY! So… Continue

Added by luseika on October 13, 2011 at 11:49am — 9 Comments

she did it!!

My baby girl is a sailor and is in Pensacola,Fl for her A school.  I'm so very proud that makes three now hoo yah!! my daughter and my twin nephews.  Hope every one had a great time seeing their sailors, mine was a grad and go but i enjoyed it to the fullest then i cried when she left.

Added by iluvalysa on October 13, 2011 at 11:10am — No Comments

Got the Box!

...with his cell phone and clothes.  Looking for the first letter. 

Added by the folks on October 12, 2011 at 10:22pm — 4 Comments

Still Wating!!!!!!!!

Well I'm still waiting for a letter from my son i check the mail box every day and still nothing he has been gone 22days now i'm taking it better now but i miss him and wants to hear something from him Ohhhhhh this is sooo messed up argggg.

Added by rainmom on October 12, 2011 at 8:06pm — 1 Comment

Almost missed him...

My phone is conspiring against me.  I'm sitting at my kitchen table cuz I know he's going to call. I normally get a great signal at the table.  The phone never rang, until his dad called me and told me he was tried to call and it went straight to voice mail!! EEK!  Dad had him call me again and I got to have a nice long conversation with my SAILOR!  It made my day.  He's going to call again on Sunday when he land in Florida.  (Guess we didn't so bad when we raised this one-LOL As you… Continue

Added by Nancy on October 12, 2011 at 7:03pm — No Comments

The Beginning

 

I never thought i would find the man of my dreams so early in life, but here i am almost 18 and engaged. When he told me he was enlisted and would be leaving in October i told him there was no way i would start a relationship with him. But now here i am waiting, for what seems like an eternity, to see him in his uniform at graduation.…

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Added by Mary on October 12, 2011 at 1:13pm — No Comments

The Box has arrived

I received "the box" yesterday.  It is amazing how great it is to receive a box with dirty clothes and smelly shoes in it.  For once I was happy to smell those aroma's. I hurriedly searched the pockets of everything, but nothing. Dalton's girlfriend was able to get his address from the recruiter. We both have already dropped letters in the mail.  Now just waiting on the form letter. I finally have slept six hours in the same night without waking up and crying.  Being a single parent all those… Continue

Added by Navy Mom 0324 on October 12, 2011 at 7:49am — 3 Comments

Feelin' Stronger Every Day!

My son left for GL last week to start his 8 weeks of BC.  I've been feelin' really down because I miss him so much.  He was my son and my best bud.  Today I was driving down the road and the song "Feeling Stronger Every Day" by Chicago came on the radio - yeah I listen to the classics :-)     It amazed me how much these lyrics fit our situation.  Anyway - this song made me feel great and I am sending you a link to listen to it. 

 

Grooveshark.com is a free site that my Navy son…

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Added by shannonlee123 on October 11, 2011 at 10:52pm — 3 Comments

I GOT THE LETTER!!!!

I was so excited when we got the letter!  I cannot wait to get to graduation.  I can't wait to see my son.  I did cry when I read the letter.  He is fine and says things are getting better.  He misses us and misses his sisters. It was short.  I called my mom and read her the letter.  She couldn't understand me, I was crying to hard. I was sad and happy at the same time.  I miss him!  We all wrote him already and I'm printing pictures.

Added by bspires6 on October 11, 2011 at 10:13pm — 1 Comment

I GOT THE FORM LETTER !!!

I think I shreeked at the mailbox!  Finally the letter!  The recruiter was right - Ship 07 Div 009 - PIR - Dec 2nd !  Let the reservations begin!!!!She says " I have never heard so many curse words in my life at the rate that they say per day." She sounds good and asks us to "pray for her"  HAPPY DAY TODAY!!!!

Added by Phillies on October 11, 2011 at 5:11pm — 7 Comments

Oct 11 2011

I'm amazed by how much I miss my son... Even though there have been lots of letters back and forth, it's not the same as seeing him everyday.  A year in DEP changed him a lot, can't wait to see how basic training has changed him. 

So far, I've missed both phones calls from him.  They've been on Saturdays that I'm at work.  The last time he tried to call me on my cell, but because I don't answer my cell phone at work, I missed it.  I haven't talked to him since the day he left.  :-( …

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Added by Nancy on October 11, 2011 at 1:33pm — 3 Comments

Finally - "Box" arrived - safe, smelly and sound :)

Well, the day arrived...the one I've read about, looked forward to, and yes, even dreaded.  My oldest son called me at work to let me know that there was a box from my youngest son.  He told me he put it in the living room and asked me if I wanted him there when I opened it, "in case I freaked out".  I laughed and told him no, I would be fine.  And then the craziness in my head started LOL  Would I be happy, like so many mom's have been...would I be sad, also like so many mom's have…

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Added by DisneyDebi (02/903) on October 11, 2011 at 12:22pm — 3 Comments

Life after boot camp

We know that it is hard for all you navy moms whose sons and daughters are headed to or already in Boot Camp!  And of course after they have graduated, they will be transferring to a school's command somewhere else in the country.  The most important thing you can do for them, besides staying in communication with them, is to pray for them.  It's not always easy for them to be far from home either.  That's where we come in.  If any of your sons or daughters transfer to Virginia…

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Added by John and Yvonne on October 11, 2011 at 11:59am — 3 Comments

Three weeks of no contact? Really?

My son arrived last Thursday at Great Lakes for boot camp.  That night about 8:30PM I received his last phone call and it broke my heart.  He sounded so defeated and distant, my imagination ran away with me.  What could he possibly have gone through in the last several hours that changed him so much?  When he left he was so excited and looking forward to everything and then he just sounded so despondent.  I know he was reading some script but WHAT HAPPENED? My son is an emotional rock and…

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Added by shannonlee123 on October 10, 2011 at 5:07pm — 10 Comments

Thank you JESUS!!! I got my first phone call last night!!!

It was bittersweet to say the least.. I answered the phone and my baby was on the other end..."Hello Mama"  My heart just sank... a huge knot swelled up in my throat and I could hardly speak.  He sounded exhausted and rightly so..said that he just came off watch and they don't get but about five hours of sleep a night.. he said he was doing well...passing all of the tests and inspections with perfect scores... I heard his voice crack and then he started to cry under his breath...I then asked…

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Added by NukeMom on October 10, 2011 at 3:25pm — 6 Comments

ALL ABOUT MAILING & SHIPPING

 

 

WHAT THE INITIALS STAND FOR - NMAILING ADDRESS

APO stands for Army Post Office and is used by Army and Air Force (generally but not always).

FPO stands for Fleet Post Office and is used by Navy and…

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Added by BunkerQB on October 10, 2011 at 1:00pm — 10 Comments

A long weekend

 

First weekend without my son - it was a tough one.  Especially Sunday - our family is all part of a fantasy football league and Sunday's were busy and loud at our house as we all watched the games, to see how our teams did and how we all did against each other.  It was so quiet at home this weekend.  His brother and sister were gone this weekend so there was no one around to watch the games with me.   Did some cleaning, some organizing - laundry - the usual. 

 

Didn't…

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Added by DisneyDebi (02/903) on October 10, 2011 at 12:13pm — 4 Comments

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