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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

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:

RTC Graduation

**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.

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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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Michigan Moms (and Family)

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Michigan Moms (and Family)

Seeking all Michigan Moms!!!!!!!! Got a question... want to chat with others from Michigan.. Moms, then join us!!!!!

Please, if you no longer want to be a part of N4M's consider NOT deleting your profile as everything you have ever posted will disappear when you delete it .  You can leave a group but don't permanently delete your profile!

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Latest Activity: Mar 19

Welcome come on in start a discussion, ask questions and answer a few too!!!!!!!



HAVE FUN !!!!!!

RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:

In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.

Discussion Forum

Baseball Game/Military Appreciation

Started by Kim F. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Jul 23, 2018. 11 Replies

Parents with SR at GL

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Ride home from Great Lakes on December 19-20, '14?

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Comment by Shanny on August 6, 2020 at 8:54pm
SubMom: I think the worst is that I am used to getting a text or snapchat back within no longer than an hour. Even when he was mad at me and not "speaking" to me, if I texted him he answered. So not hearing from him for a week is so strange to me... I think it would be fun to get together with others who understand what we are living.
Comment by SubMom on August 6, 2020 at 8:37pm

Shannon - I’m from Pensacola (I think I told WaterLily). It’s been awhile since I’ve been home but I always go to the base and visit the air museum and the beach (obviously). I’ve lived in Michigan 28 years and this is home but Pensacola will always have a place in my heart. I hope things get easier for you as your son moves through the pipeline. Mine will go weeks without acknowledging texts or calls. It does help for when he’s deployed and we have NO contact (he’s sub). Maybe when things get back to normal we can have a get together With all the Navy moms in Southwest Michigan. 

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on August 6, 2020 at 10:47am

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Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on August 5, 2020 at 11:15am

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Comment by WaterLily on August 4, 2020 at 11:05am

Shannon, oh I do remember how internally frustrated I felt when people would ask me how I was doing and how my recruit was doing.  I knew they were just trying to helpful but it was painful.  I wanted to say, "How the heck should I know how my son is doing?!  He's not allowed to talk to us for awhile!"  And then the parents of his classmates going off to college would try to say how they knew exactly how I felt.  Ha!  Not even close.  They just didn't get it.  But I would always remind myself that my recruit was tough enough to go through the trials and tests of boot camp, so I could easily endure that time of no-contact separation as well.  I did lots of gardening (digging in the dirt makes me happy) and cooking (food makes me happy LOL) and each day did seem to get better.  It doesn't get easier.  But we get stronger.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on August 4, 2020 at 10:43am

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!

Comment by Shanny on August 4, 2020 at 10:41am

Hi WaterLily!!  I am also from West Michigan (St Joseph County).  They are pretty military supportive but not involved of that makes sense. I have lost a few long time friends over my SR being military and very conservative in his views but they were from outside the state. 

he is currently supposed to graduated around September 25th if all goes as planned. I haven’t made it a week yet but each day seems a tiny bit better until something happens and I need to tell him. I may have sent about 3 or 4 snapchats to him not thinking they will be unseen. His A School be Pensacola But as I am learning, things are always subject to change. 

SubMom:  Hi!!  So nice to see some relatively close moms on here!  It sometimes seems like no one locally gets it...  and if one more person asks me how I am when I am walking into the post office or gas station...  I may snap lol  How am I?  Trying to stay busy doing stupid little things to avoid going crazy...  that’s how I am. Ok not really but there are times that has been an answer I have considered

Comment by WaterLily on August 4, 2020 at 10:30am

Hi Shannon!  I'm not on here every day, but I try to keep track of the comments.  We are from West MI and my son was in DEP for almost one year before heading off to boot camp July 9.  He graduated early September, went to schooling in Pensacola, then transferred to Great Lakes for a different school in early March right as things were beginning to lock down.  That section of schooling was disruptive, and he never really knew if his school would get shut down or not.  Sailors were often going in and out of quarantine but he was able to continue on with his class and was given transfer orders to join the fleet late May.  So he's been in for over a year now, and only in the fleet for a few months.....but I remember that boot camp time like it was yesterday. 

Things have changed so much over the past year, but the separation emotions are all the same I'm sure.  We're here for you when you need shoulders to lean on!  Michigan is not a very pro-military state so any support network we can create here is so helpful!  

Comment by SubMom on August 4, 2020 at 6:39am

Shannon - stopping by to say hi from Plainwell. Best of luck to your sailor and you on this new adventure called Nuke life. Our son has been in the fleet for about half year now.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 31, 2020 at 11:55am

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