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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.
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."
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 isno 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.
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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Hi Mar.
We on the Jpan site are missing you. And worried too. Please share a word that you are doing ok and that your son is recovering nicely.
Hug TLynn
Hey, Marilyn! Bravo Zulu to J! YAH! What an honor....he will be so great in Japan. The pik is not up yet for us to see...only you can...until it is approved. We'll check back tomrorow. Thanks for including T with your group Sat. He said he had a real good time!
Chat with you soon! I want to see yours and Lori's piks from Williamsburg!
hello we have had a bad weekend. Please help me pray a hedge around my son. He has profesed that he is saved and says that when he is doing things he should not do he does feel guilty and after wishes he did not do it. Please pray that I can keep him away from that group of friends. I am not sure how to handel when he insists he going to go with them. I feel like I can not trust him. He dad is so upset says I should not let him out of the house by himself only to go to work. I just don't know how to enforce this he will go anyway. I don't want him to leave/move out. I just want to be able to keep the peace untill March and keep him out of trouble. Please help me pray. Thanks
HIIIIII, Marilyn!!!! Long time no hear! Lori is on vacation....hoping for a hurricane....silly girl! Hope you are doing well. Looking forward to meeting you in just a few weeks. How is J doing?
Hang in there, Marilyn. What a day both you and J have had! OH MY! You both have certainly experienced the ups and down of the Navy! So "up" for PIR and then this! But like you said...lessons learned. T was relying on his roommate's alarm clock at A School to get him up. I told him to get his own....he did and had a situation where he was sure glad that he had it! I'm sure J will take this lesson and use it for good....I'm praying that the Lord will block the Captain's Mast....I will say...they remind these sailors alot of that...and most are terribly fearful of it (T sure was/is!)....but I think just the warning is enough to keep them all doing what they need to do. Hang in there.....praying...
Well, Marilyn, I talked it over with my husband, and I think he's still leaning toward a hotel/motel instead of the Lodge. While he's considered to be "retired Navy," it was a medical retirement, and he doesn't think it'll count the same as a "regular retirement." We'll have two other families traveling with us, too, so it will probably be easier for us to be in the same place.
I wish we could get our hands on one of the DOD stickers, though! That would make pick-up and drop-off much easier. Ah, well...
Thanks SO much for your reply! I did join the Div 197 group, and posted a comment already.
Thanks, too, for the info on the Navy Lodge. I looked it up online, and found the number to call for reservations. I don't know if they'll have much left, considering it's only about 3 weeks to my son's PIR, but it's certainly worth a shot! My husband is retired Navy, so we should be eligible, too.
I think that we're going to rent a car and drive to GL so that we have mobility once we're there. I read in someone's post (I read too darn many to remember where I saw any particular fact) that there's a shuttle from the Lodge to the base. We'll probably go that route.
I'll keep your offer of help in mind, and if I need some, I'll be sure to give you a holler today!
Ann
Hi Marilyn-
Thank you so much for the link to those inspirational stories. Austin will be inundated with letters once I get through reading it all!
Tina
You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions. Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!
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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.
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.
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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:
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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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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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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.
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We on the Jpan site are missing you. And worried too. Please share a word that you are doing ok and that your son is recovering nicely.
Hug TLynn
Chat with you soon! I want to see yours and Lori's piks from Williamsburg!
Can't wait to meet you too!
Dianne
I wish we could get our hands on one of the DOD stickers, though! That would make pick-up and drop-off much easier. Ah, well...
Thanks, too, for the info on the Navy Lodge. I looked it up online, and found the number to call for reservations. I don't know if they'll have much left, considering it's only about 3 weeks to my son's PIR, but it's certainly worth a shot! My husband is retired Navy, so we should be eligible, too.
I think that we're going to rent a car and drive to GL so that we have mobility once we're there. I read in someone's post (I read too darn many to remember where I saw any particular fact) that there's a shuttle from the Lodge to the base. We'll probably go that route.
I'll keep your offer of help in mind, and if I need some, I'll be sure to give you a holler today!
Ann
Thank you so much for the link to those inspirational stories. Austin will be inundated with letters once I get through reading it all!
Tina
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Take some time, learn to use this site, you will get adjusted in no time. Welcome to the N4M and the Navy family, BunkerBee – my son is on a sub.
You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions. Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!
If you haven’t already, please make sure that you review our Community Guidelines to learn the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the community.
Also, check out this OPSEC Internet Safety Video
Enjoy your time here and we look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :)
-Colleen and Elizabeth