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Navy For Moms

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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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

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.

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The Journey

When our daughter joined the Navy in November, July seemed so long off. There was so many things to do. At that time there was Christmas to look forward to and then senior prom and then Graduation. I thought once Christmas was over time would fly.... well she just left for her senior prom and she has 13 days left of school. Time seems to be flying. Dont get me wrong... I am so proud of her and support her decision. She has a great recruiter and the support she has received through the DEP program has been amazing. Thanks for listening.... Just needed to talk to people that would understand the huge range of emotions we as mothers experience.

Dena

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Comment by lemonelephant on April 28, 2012 at 8:17pm: You may want to join the group, DEP-Leavin for bootcamp in July, to connect with others who have loved ones leaving in July and who may even end up training with your son. I also suggest you join New Members Stop Here and check out the Pages and Discussions there.

Your future Sailor may want to join http://www.navydep.com to learn the ins and outs from the DEP point of view. Craig runs that and will steer you to some good links on there.

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Comment by denako on April 28, 2012 at 8:20pm: thank you for the additional information. We both belong to the Navydep sight... it sure has helped me and my daughter get some answers. I will definitely check out the Dep - leaving in July sight.

Comment by lemonelephant on April 28, 2012 at 8:25pm: Ooops, sorry to post "son" instead of "daughter". Enjoy this time with her.

Comment by BunkerQB on April 29, 2012 at 9:57am: denako, if you open up this blog (click on title), you'll see on the upper right "options" with a down arrow. Click on the down arrow, then click "edit this blog" - from there you can change the title of this blog to something short - preferably less than 5 to 7 words. Otherwise, the program simply inserts the first 50 words of the text from body of the blog and use it as the title. Changing it would make it easier to find later on.

Comment by denako on April 29, 2012 at 11:24am: Thanks BunkerQB - I did not title the post so it added the body of the blog... I could not figure out how to change until your direction... thanks again, it was a little obnoxious :)

Comment by BunkerQB on April 29, 2012 at 12:02pm: Hahahahaha.......... yeah but we see many of them. THANK YOU for coming back and changing it - now it's perfect!

Comment by BunkerQB on April 29, 2012 at 12:07pm: By the way (BTW), we do have a Survival Guide for Navy For Moms Newbie (clickable link). You'll find everything you need to get started. Videos, PDF files of boot camp processing days, links to all the important groups plus tips on how to use this site. Keep in mind the videos and PDF files may take some time to download the first time you try it. It'll look like nothing is happening.

I noticed you haven't hooked up with any of the groups yet - you should do that. The Boot Camp Moms group will take you from beginning to end. Just open up Survival Guide - all the links all there. I also posted the link to the Survival guide on your page (so you can always find it) - you should periodically click MY PAGE on the menu bar - you'll be surprised what you'll find.

BunkerQB

Comment by Andysproudmom on April 29, 2012 at 10:09pm: My son signed up for the Navy in October and is also a senior who will leave for boot camp July 2nd. He has talked about joining the Navy seriously since he was 14. He never once changed his mind. He hopes to make it a career. He is so proud to be serving his country and feels blessed to be able to do that. It takes my breath away somethimes that he is so passoniate about this. My other 2 children who are older than him are great kids but like most kids change their minds a half dozen times on what they want to do with their life. But not my Andy. He is steadfast and determined. It has been a journey that's for sure. I hope that the next couple of months bring you much joy and that you can spend as much time possible with your daughter. They grow up so fast and July will be here soon. Anyway welcome to the site. it has really helped me to get prepared especially emotionally as I can get teary-eyed at times as I'm sure we all do.