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 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.

Format Downloads:

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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Sherry James's Blog (10)

United States Navy headed out to Haiti to assist in recovery efforts





We learned first thing this morning that my daughter and her shipmates will be headed to Haiti to help residents of Haiti recover. I'm both grateful and proud that the United States Navy has been selected to assist in recovery after the horrific earthquake disaster that hit the island yesterday. Please keep these men and women in your thoughts and prayers for their safety, protection and encouragement. Another good thing, I'm sure these… Continue

Added by Sherry James on January 13, 2010 at 4:57pm — 7 Comments

Well, it may not be an appointment to the Naval Academy but ....





When I first read the letter from the Naval Academy Admissions Board I couldn't seem to get farther than the first few words, We are pleased to notify you that the Admissions Board has selected YOU..... OMG, how excited I felt and my son was clearly pleased as well (but of course had his teenaged coolness prevailed). Once I got past the first few words I realized that he had NOT been accepted into the Naval Academy as a "direct admit," the… Continue

Added by Sherry James on March 13, 2009 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

Good News Son's Congressional Nomination!!



Wow, it's finally here in hard copy form! The official letter from our congressman nominating my son to 2 service academies! It's beautiful (suitable for framing, hmmm) printed on ivory bond paper and with a real signature at the bottom instead of one of those signature stamps. I am grateful to the Lord and continue to pray that my son will receive an appointment to the Naval Academy as we continue to wait. What an exciting time in our… Continue

Added by Sherry James on February 17, 2009 at 9:38pm — 8 Comments

Today's my birthday!!

Added by Sherry James on February 15, 2009 at 12:28pm — 4 Comments

Spring Meeting in the Planning Stages

Hey Metro Detroit Moms,

Well, what do you guys think? May be we should start connecting with the other moms/wives/girlfriends from our group and plan a mid March get together at Nello's Diner in Royal Oak again.

Let me know how you feel about March 15 or 22nd.

Added by Sherry James on February 5, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Celebrate A New Beginning in America!!

Added by Sherry James on January 20, 2009 at 4:30pm — 3 Comments

Yes, We Can ..... And We Have

Added by Sherry James on January 20, 2009 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

FYI: What is a Surface Warfare Officer (SWO)? What is Their Role and Their Assignments?

What is Surface Warfare?



Surface Warfare is the community within the Navy that involves the use of the surface fleet's ships for the missions of forward naval presence, sea control, and projection of power ashore. Surface Warfare Officers (SWO's) are the men and women who, as junior officers only a year out of college, lead the sailors within the many specialized divisions of a ship's crew. Many of these young officers aspire to someday command their own ship.





What… Continue

Added by Sherry James on January 9, 2009 at 8:34pm — No Comments

My Mama's Work with Her Grandchildren was NOT in Vain!!



Our Christmas trip started with several inches of the fluffy white stuff reeking havoc on the Michigan highways and at Detroit's airport. Our flight out was delayed for over three hours and I really think we were the lucky ones that made it out of the airport and down to Norfolk, VA by way of Annapolis/Baltimore, MD.



Thank goodness for the warm welcome arms of those Navy/Marine buds that your kids make along the way in their career. A… Continue

Added by Sherry James on January 1, 2009 at 11:57pm — 1 Comment

My FIRST EVER NavyForMoms Meet and Greet!!

Saturday morning and I was a little nervous about this first meeting and wondered how well it would go. Would everyone that had RSVP-ed for the breakfast Meet & Greet show up? And if so, how friendly would they all be? And, more importantly, would Elle, the new Navy For Moms Admin and my "surprise" special guest be able to make it with her busy schedule? Could we plan another get together?





The answers? Yes, very friendly, yes and yes. Everyone who had RSVP-ed showed up at… Continue

Added by Sherry James on December 8, 2008 at 2:00pm — 4 Comments

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