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:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Latest Activity
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.)
N4M Merchandise
Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
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
Badge
Here We Go
Hello all - this is my first post. My boy leaves for the Navy tomorrow, he's so excited! As a single mom, I feel a sense of accomplishment......I'm also freaking out a little bit and I keep cleaning the house and rearranging furniture. I bought him a steak dinner and told him how proud I am of him!
Views: 233
-
Comment by CryptoDad on March 15, 2015 at 6:17pm
-
Going to his swearing in? Do it if at all possible.
-
Comment by Aimee and Wine on March 15, 2015 at 6:54pm
-
That's funny to me, I clean when I'm nervous too. . . My son leaves tomorrow also. You deserve to feel proud, mom, you raised a son that wants to do great things!
Good luck tomorrow & I agree with CryptoDad- go see him swear in if you can!
-
Comment by Nates_Mom on March 18, 2015 at 9:32am
-
I asked him about that and he said he did that months ago, but then on the way there he said he did an official swearing in. To be honest, when I met him at the hotel the night before he left he looked at me and said, "Well, I think I'm going to hang out with the other guys now." and that was my cue to beat it. It felt like a proper sending off at that moment. Why do we go through this two-stage cutting of the umbilical cord in life? Anyway, after his "I'm here" call last night, I can rest knowing he's in an awesome environment from here on out. I also didn't realize how exhausted I was, I nearly missed the alarm this morning.
-
-
Sounds like he has a great outlook and he's ready!
Agreed on the exhausted part! I'm pooped.
-
Comment by LunchLady on March 18, 2015 at 6:10pm
-
Hi. I'm Leesa. My son, Steven, also left on Monday morning for MEPS and for basic on Tuesday. Got my call last night around 7. He sounded good. I am a worrier. I think about him all the time. Hope he is doing ok. We live in Missouri. Where are you located?
-
-
I'm in California Leesa.
-
-
I have only been to California once and that was last year. It is beautiful there. Have you received Nates box yet? Got Steven's today. My older daughter opened it and had everything put up before I got home. I'm kind of relieved that she put the things away. It has been a long week. I keep wondering how he is doing? Where will Nate be going for A school?
-
-
Hi LunchLady - I just got Nate's box yesterday. I laughed when I opened it - it was just his jeans, jacket and cell phone along with his traveling papers. I imagined him standing there in his underwear and t-shirt packing his belongings. He didn't even put the right street address on the box since we've only lived in this apartment for 8 months. It was good to get it though - kind of puts things into motion mentally. Now I just need that letter so I can book my Chicago trip! Nate will be going to Pensacola, FL for A school. Where is yours going after graduation?
-
-
Finally. My son was not shy about walking around in his boxers. His sisters didn't understand why he got to do that and they didn't get to walk around in their bras and panties. Lol. Siblings. Miss that interaction. It was probably a funny sight with all the new enlisted in their boxers putting everything in the box. Hardest item for my son was probably his phone. My son is headed to s Carolina for A school. Pensacola would be a nice place to be also. We vacationed there once. Beautiful place.
-
-
Woo Hoo Graduation on Friday! Wow was that fast!
Comment
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
You need to be a member of Navy For Moms to add comments!
Join Navy For Moms