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
I got a call
We are blessed today with my daughter's voice. We finally got that call that we have been waiting for. She was crying and saying she is homesick. It broke my heart but I didn't cry. I wanted to be strong for her. We just gave her a lot of encouragement. She made friends and one more test to go for promotion. She was telling us that she got her dog tags yesterday and uniforms. We probably talked for about 10 minutes. I can't wait to hear from her again.
Views: 161
-
Comment by lemonelephant on August 24, 2013 at 2:39pm
-
That is great that she called. It is common for recruits to be homesick this early, but you did the right thing in encouraging her. Keep those cards and letters going her way and in 7 Fridays you will be hugging your brand new US Navy Sailor.
BTW, check your My Page.
-
Comment by Cassie's-momShip4Div380 on August 24, 2013 at 2:51pm
-
Thank you lemomelephant. I would love to give her that big hug in 7 days but her PIR is in October. I can't wait to see her. I read something that they wear their white during summer and blues in winter. Is that mean she will be in her blues when she PIR?
-
-
You can hug her "in 7 Fridays" as I said. Yes, she will be in dress blues for her PIR. They typically change over to dress blues the first full week of October, so her TG should be the first one in dress blues unless the command chooses to change over at a diferent time.
-
Comment by Kaylas#1supporter on August 24, 2013 at 9:24pm
-
lemonelephant isnt six more fridays??
-
-
im sorry it is 7 i was getting ahead :(
-
-
Yes 7 Fridays I was thinking 7 days thats how bad I want to wrap my hand around her.
-
-
:o)
-
-
lemonelephant when do you think is the next call will be. She also mentioned that she has a letter to mail but she can't send it yet. What is that mean? I( know its not stamps issue. I bought her a lot of stamps.
-
-
Calls come when the RDC schedules them. Don't expect a call, but have your phone available between 8 am to 8 pm Central Time M-Th and Sa and between 1 pm to 8 pm F and Su and be pleasantly surprised if you get a call. The RDC sometimes post in the compartment when calls MAY be so recruits are sometimes able to give loved ones a possible time, but that is not always the case. See Phone Cards and Phone Calls. Recruits can only mail letters on Sunday at first, so even if she has been able to write since last Sunday, her letters won't be mailed until tomorrow on the way to dinner or Monday on the way to breakfast. See Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit.
-
-
Thank you:)
© 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