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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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
So hard to do things alone!
I have been married with my sailor for 2 1/2 years; which seems like only 1 year with all the time he has been gone :(
We have a beautiful 15 month son and have been living in VA for almost 2 years. We moved from CA on April 2009, which was very hard for me because I knew that my family would not be able to be with me on my son's birth and all the holidays we are used to celebrating together.
I am an alcohol and drug counselor and have been working since I was 18 years old. Moving to VA put a huge frustration in my life due to not being able to find employment. I have been a housekeeper since we moved to VA because I did not succeed to get a decent employment. I did everything I could but unfortunately VA is a state that is not military friendly and employers don't want to hire us.
I have a disability since I was 24 years old due to bone cancer but I have never let that stop me from succeeding in reaching my goals. It is hard to walk with a total femur/hip replacement, especially now that I have a very active son I have to run after all day :)
I just had my 5th hip replacement surgery and with the holidays coming and my husband going underway, makes it hard for me to be happy about the holidays.
I feel that I have exhausted all of my options in order to feel that I am a solid support for my sailor. I wish I could help financially but even the government has denied me disability because I have worked in the past.
I feel alone in this Navy journey and the only thing I want is to give my son a happy home and give my husband the support he needs!
If anyone knows about something I can do in order to make and income working from home and/or about anything I can do for a disability income, I would really appreciate the help!
We are not alone....We should not feel alone!
Views: 21
-
Comment by Lynne on December 3, 2010 at 5:02am
-
Every state has an agency that is primarily funded by the federal government to help people who have disabilities maximize their ability to obtain employment. If you are a chemical dependency counselor the first thing you need to do is check into licensing laws and see if your license transfers from CA to VA. You can also contact the Virginia Disabilities Resource Department. This is their website: http://www.vadsa.org/careers.htm This is the specific part of the site that is dedicated to helping people obatin and maintain employment. You will be able to find the closest field office to you. You should be able to go there, have a case manager assigned to you, and have someone assigned to you to help you become successful in your job hunt. Good Luck. I'll keep you in my prayers. Stay the course!!
-
-
One more thing...don't give up on the disability route...it is tough to get...and I am sure you would rather work than not...but sometimes you have to apply multiple times than approve...most of the time your best bet is to contact a disability attorney who will charge you a contingency fee, this means that they ONLY get paid if they get you your disability...and it is a percentage of the disability. So let's say you filed for disability on December 1st...and you are approved on February 1st...you would receive payments beginnng December 1st and many of these attorneys will charge 40% of those first 3 months. Now I know that is high, however 60% of something is better than 60% of nothing and no I am not an attorney. I just know it is very hard to get disability, unfortunately they put lots of road blocks in place. But, good luck with it!!
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