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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.
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:
**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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Ten days. How did we get to just ten more days to go until my son leaves me for a life unknown? Wasn't it just yesterday that he celebrated his 18th birthday?
No, he turned 18 in January, and on his birthday, he joined the US Navy under the Delayed Entry Program (DEP). I've got to give him credit. He wanted to do this himself, his first major decision as a 'man', so he waited until his 18th birthday when he could sign all the legal documents himself instead of having momma 'co-sign' with him.
So how did we get from January to just ten days to go until he leaves for boot camp? Certainly I haven't been sleeping all this time because I know that we celebrated my little boys 8th birthday, Valentines Day, St Patricks Day, Easter, Memorial day and the end of school culminating with my son's graduation from high school, days at the beach, bbq's, 4th of July, the beginning of school again. So where has all the time gone? Why am I all the sudden time conscious?
Because my baby boy is leaving me. Because I have no control over this. By leaving for boot camp, this isn't like any 'normal' child (something my son has never been good at anyway) that goes away to college. I don't have the opportunity to tour a campus, check out a dormitory, go through the hassle of purchasing books. I don't get to help him pack his most cherished possessions and drive him 100, 500 miles away and help him organize his new room. I don't get to eat a lunch with him in his new cafeteria and make promises of phone calls the next day after he's been to his first classes.
No, I get to drop him off at his recruiters before he departs for Atlanta. The next day, I get to sit in on his swearing in ceremony, to grab a few quick pictures, give even more hasty hugs and kisses, interspersed with 'I love you, I'm proud of you, be strong, you can do this', and then *poof*, my baby boy will be.........gone. Gone on his way to the airport for his first airline flight (trust me, my dear son, this is going to be nothing like the little Cessna's that you've been flying) as I'm on my way to the passenger seat of the truck so that I can just cry my way home. He will be gone to a state that he's never been to while I remain at the safe harbour of our home. Gone will be my right-hand man, my best friend, my fellow mischief maker, into a world where he will have to rely on his fellow crewmates to be his right-hand men, best friends, and fellow mischief makers.
Ten days. That's all I have left of the life with my son as I know it before we both take a major leap into a world unknown. Ten days to fill him full of 'I love you's', 'I'm proud of you's', and 'be strong' to last through eight weeks of boot camp. Ten days to cherish him as my young man before I next see him as a man, a SAILOR!
You all are very normal. It's hard to realize now but soon you will accept the fact that many of your sons/daughters will be in charge (or handling) of million dollar (or in some cases billion dollars) equipment/machinery. Soon you will understand the enormity of the responsibilities they will be taking on.
You can certainly be yourself on this site - cry, vent, bitch - it's OK. Just remember when you meet up with someone in public (non military), keep a stiff upper lip, stand up a little straighter - it's what your sons/daughters would expect from you.
That was very beautiful blog. I am not a mother (i am a wife) but I empathsize with you and my heart goes out to you. Keep coming back to N4Ms. You will find support here day in and day out for these next years to come. Your baby boy will come out a man and you will be more proud of him then you even knew possible. Good luck! Stay strong!
Honor, Courage, Commitment. <3
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