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:
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- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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.)
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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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IMPORTANT: Revised Community Guidelines and Policies!
Message from Rear Admiral Robin Braun
N4M Members,
As I mentioned in my previous message, we have been conducting a very thorough review of the Community Guidelines to ensure we continue to provide our members the most rewarding experience possible while respecting the freedoms our Sailors serve to protect.
As you know, the purpose of NAVYForMoms.com is to bring together Navy parents and the parents of recruiting-age young men and women to discuss the multitude of leadership, training, and career opportunities our Navy offers and the great pride Navy parents have in their children. NAVYForMoms.com exists to allow families an open forum to discuss what life in the Navy is really like.
Today, I am pleased to announce the completion of this review and the adoption of new Community Guidelines for the NAVYForMoms.com website.
The goal of the new Guidelines is to facilitate open discussion without compromising the purpose of the website, namely the exchange of information relating to service in the Navy. As I noted in my previous message, your personal freedoms are extremely important to the Navy and my hope is that these updated Guidelines provide the best possible balance between the defense of those liberties and the integrity of the website.
I encourage everyone to review the revised Community Guidelines and to become familiar with acceptable use on the NAVYForMoms.com website. The new Community Guidelines may be reviewed here.
I would like to draw your attention to the discussion of off-topic posts and the need to keep discourse civil. These rules are intended to ensure that members get the quick and useful answers to their Navy-related questions in the friendly and collegial atmosphere that has come to define NAVYForMoms.com.
Please know that NAVYForMoms members’ suggestions played a critical part in the revision of the Guidelines, and we will continue to rely on your honest feedback as we strive to provide the best possible user experience.
As always, I would like to thank you for your continued support of the Navy family and our men and women who serve our great nation.
Rear Admiral Robin Braun, USN
Commander
Navy Recruiting Command
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Comment by TexasDocMom on July 9, 2009 at 9:34pm
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The Mentalist is coming on...it's a new one, nothing else matters....
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Comment by diane {Shawns mom} on July 10, 2009 at 12:39pm
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Kathleen, read your blog...Went to leave a comment and my computer went insane..So I will leave it here
LOVE IT LOVE IT...You write beautiful. You write from your heart. I am in a sense speechless but want you to know....I feel the SAME WAY! ♥
thanks for taking the time.....enjoy it enjoy it!!!
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OH Ingra....don't open a can of worms....LOL
I like her blog...I don't and wont go there.
I like Kathleens writings in her blog..the sisterhood...the chain...the connection we all have. And that we all bring something to the "table" ...
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I Love the chain idea...love it...
Kathleen where in the south...We are having those storms right now too..
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NO worries Kathleen...I love your blog and your ideas of a Navy mom chain..We are all interesting people....
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I went to Sonics and got a Cherry Limeade...YUMMY
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I think these new guidelines show talent for someone looking to write for politicians or teenagers, ambiguous is the perfect word for them.
This will allow people to be warned and banned at the admin's whim, depending on his/her mood or goals of the day and how these words are interperted. The perfect solution!! I'm sure the ad agency is feeling pretty proud of itself this morning.
Congrats to CE for successfully blocking the 1st Amendment rights on a military mom's (and their "loved ones") board! Where's the party?
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Comment by Debby on July 11, 2009 at 3:32pm
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Many battles were won and in the end...the war was lost..
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Kathleen you did a great job and should be applauded for taking this on for so many of us.. I am mixed on this outcome.. I agree Ellie needs help and as someone who worked as a moderator for a large news agencies chat forum many years ago I know its no easy job... however I feel the new guidlines are a start but are still leaving room for abuse.. I see it happen on other groups and on the general discussions all the time.. I will sit back and reserve final judgement of victory when I see this rule applied to all of us and not just a chosen few...
Again thank you for leading this I know you went through a lot of BS to get this done and you should be proud of what was accomplished here.. Please dont think I am trying to take anything away from anyone who fought...
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Thank you, Kathleen.
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