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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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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

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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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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I Want it to Stop

I was amazed today to see that there are over 38,000 members of Navy for Moms. I've been a very active member for over a year. There probably hasn't been more than 3 days in a row that I haven't posted, read comments from groups I belong to, and sent private messages. I have even started a couple of groups that have been quite popular. I've met many, many wonderful Navy family here, and even met a few in person who I consider my very good friends. This is a wonderful place to belong, but today I don't want to be a Navy Mom.

Today, I want my son to come home. I want him to live in the same city as our family, to be here for his birthday and holidays. I want to stop worrying about someone killing him. I want it to stop. I want to stop being a Navy Mom today. This is the first time it's happened. I've been so proud, so supportive, so....HooYah til now. I don't know why it's happening. Maybe I'm hormonal or something. Maybe phone calls are just feeling too impersonal. Maybe I'm feeling the loss of my dad and my son's presence in the same year. It's not that he has always been with me. He was independent before joining the Navy, had a very nice girlfriend, good roommates, good job and all. Tonight I would love to wake up and find that it was all a dream. I suspect that I'm not the only one of 38,000 feeling this way. I'm sorry If I'm wrong. It would help if he was happy, but that isn't the case. It would help if it felt like he was making a difference, but he feels he isn't.

In the morning I'll most likely feel better. I'll chat with my friends and go about the dailies of life and try to forget how far away he is and for how long. I'll be thankful that my children are healthy and have a bright future. I'll be happy to be a Navy Mom again.....tomorrow.

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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on September 2, 2010 at 8:27am: I so understand and our son has been enlisted for 2.5 years now. He's in the middle of a deployment and calls home from the middle of somewhere and we always ask...so are you ready to come home yet ? And he says ---- nope, everything is good! So I guess we will let him be a sailor for a bit...longer!

We all have our days :-)

Comment by Joanie Tyler's Mom(133 Bees) on September 2, 2010 at 10:21am: Hugs to you and prayers going up for you....I think we all reach that point at some time....then we settle back in and go a while longer....know we're here for you as you need to vent....Stay Strong Navy Mom...you can do it!

Comment by Cat(Mom of an AO) on September 2, 2010 at 11:23am: I love you TEE. Big ((HUGS))) to you. Stay strong my wonderful friend.... and Happy Birthday today to you know who.....

Comment by BunkerQB on September 2, 2010 at 12:45pm: Sigh. I get those days. We just have to work through them somehow. Makes no sense sometimes but the feeling just hits you like an unstoppable wave.

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on September 7, 2010 at 12:56pm: Thank you for all of your caring comments:) Today, being a Navy Mom is not so bad, especially with such wonderful company! Tomorrow? Who knows what that will bring. (((HUGS)))
Tee

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on February 16, 2013 at 2:47pm: AZruralgirl, I'll send you a private message with "the rest of the story." Look for it in your "Inbox" on the right side of the screen. Give me a bit to get it to you.

Tee