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:
Events
**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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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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AnnaK
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Comment by Lynne on November 9, 2010 at 2:50pm
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Absolutely not...we have many moms, wives, girlfriends who have recruits, soon to be recruits, sailors in various stages on this site. You are welcomed here regardless of your status and your sailor or recruits status. If you know where your sailor will be deployed simply put that information in the group tab search box and many groups may come up, if he/she is being deployed onto a ship again enter that information and there are groups for specific ships...also specific rates have groups!! Welcome to Navy For Moms. This is a great place to find help, support, friends, and information. Knowledge is power and you will be very surprised about what you will learn!!
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Comment by Anna on November 9, 2010 at 4:05pm
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Thanks, Ladies, for the quick response. My son is an HM2 and is heading to Afghanistan right after becoming a new father of twin boys. I need to be there for his wife and new babies, but am having a hard time coming to terms with my own pain. How do you breathe?? Or, keep from being angry at everyone that says stupid stuff??
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Is there a group for Corpsman Mom's? He is now attached to a Marine unit and will be at a MASH site when deployed.
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Thanks, Kathy. Just don't want him to come home different......you know. To loose that innocents for life. Sorry.....getting way too deep too early. :-)
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Thank you, Denise. Will check out the group for Cormpsmenmoms. :-)
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You breathe one day at a time...you make a calendar and mark them off one day at a time, you take time for yourself and focus on planning for the future, you make a scrapbook of his wife and children so he won't feel like he missed so much, you keep a journal of funny little stories that happened while he was gone and you send him a copy now and then and keep the original for him to have when he gets home...you ignore the ignormaouses because they aren't worth knowing...if you are really irritated finad a way to gently remind them that your son is part of the reason they can say the things we do...but more than anything insure you have someone to talk to...join the groups that were suggested, send those boxes, perhaps find a way to volunteer and help military organizations in your community...pay it forward...be Navy strong and Navy proud...and your son will be too!!
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Thanks, Kathy. Great ideas on pre-preparing boxes to ship. I have until Feb before he leaves.
And, Lynne......your thoughts, ideas and kind words bring tears to my eyes. I am already having a hard time concentrating on work and putting the need to be here over work. Good thing my boss is out of town this week. Just not sure how I will explain why all the projects she gave me to do while she was gone....didn't get done. :-)
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