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:
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
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How did you find us?
I am so excited. :)
This is the best snowball ever! I’ve been so curious…how did you find out about our community? Some moms have told me about the http://www.nstc.navy.mil/rtcgl/family/index.html site… Is that were you found us... or was it through another source? Thank you!
UPDATE 4/20/2008: Hi Everyone! I brought this forward because I really want to know! :) How did you find out about us?!
UPDATE: 2/17/2010: Hello N4M's. We are interested in where all of our members founds us! Stop by and leave a message.
Thank you for making this community what it is today!
Elizabeth and Colleen
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Permalink Reply by clockard on
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N4M came up in a Google search when my son was still in DEP. I was so happy, especially when we had a group for our PIR date. We spent many hours together waiting for phone calls, especially during Battle Stations. Made some good friends and still keep in touch with some of them a year later.
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The local news station picked up a story about a new online support group for Navy Mom's, but I only caught part of the story. Two weeks later I saw the first commercial and have been on every since. The support and friendships have been invaluable.
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I saw an ad in a magazine. So glad I did because the days leading to and boot camp itself were difficult times for me and everyone on here helped me through it!
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I found it on RTC's website. I am reading everything "Navy" I can. My son-in-law separated from the Navy in September after 5 years. His last deployment was on the Eisenhower. He had many good memories and they took care of the family very well. Now my oldest son, Andrew, graduates 4/9/10 planning to make it a career but at least 6 years. I am so excited but scared too. I can't wait for graduation! Thanks for all the information and just for being here so I have some friends going through it too!. I actually signed up about 2 weeks ago but I have worked almost 2 weeks straight. I want to know all about graduation and what to do and who can come, I heard about an overflow room in case you can't all get in to where your sailor is. My mom wants to come with us too. Good to meet you all!
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Found this site just flipping through a magazine. I grabbed my attention and curiosity so I decided to look into it.
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Permalink Reply by javajo50 (MM Power School 1103) on
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My son gave me the info for your website and I'm so glad to have found it. When he leaves this summer for boot camp, I KNOW I'll be depending on all the moms out here for support.
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Permalink Reply by linda6321 on
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My daughter told me about it. I believe she learned about it from her recruiter.
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My son did OCS. I knew very little about it, so I googled OCS and found this site, and the parent's group for my son's OCS class.
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Permalink Reply by Aim on
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My sons recruiter told me about it. I find I am in the dark about a lot of things. When I try to talk to my son I sometimes feel like I am talking to a brick wall :(
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Thank you for this wonderful site! I am a DEP recruit waiting for bootcamp in October and my recruiter suggested my mom check out this site, but she's not really feeling me being in the Navy right now and so she's not really on board. I decided to check it out instead and have found oodles of information on what I should be expecting and hopefully my mom will come around before bootcamp, so she can be reassured somewhat and fix some of her misconceptions.
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My daughter is a DEP recruit, as well, and she finds lots of useful information here too. She leaves for bootcamp in September. I am sorry that your mom isn't on board with you joining the Navy. I know that when the time comes I will miss my daughter, big time, but I am proud of her taking this approach to a career.
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My daughter knew of my INTENSE reluctance to see her enter the Navy because of a lot of worries (sexual harassment, etc.). Her recruiter - his boss, and his boss's boss (sorry, I don't have the ranks figured out yet!) all told her to LIE on her application. When I found out, I was really scared for her (my husband kept telling her she would end up scraping barnacles off the bottom of a ship) because internet research said the LAST thing a recruit should do is lie on the app. She went to her recruiter the next day after signing up at MEPS and insisted he change her app to reflect correct information, however, because of the uncertainty surrounding her app, I nursed a really bad case of DISLIKE for the recruiter and the whole Navy in general. For 4 weeks (while she was in DEP), my husband and I tried to talk her out of going, but she really wanted to do it. Long story short, my daughter gave me the Navy for Moms website address, knowing of my worry. I'm glad she did, because after she disappeared into the "Bootcamp Black Hole", I was DESPERATE for information on what she might be going through and when I could expect a letter from her. I overcame my initial resentment of the Navy (a "guilt through association" thing because of her recruiter!) and logged onto this website. Thank you! Having this resource available to me made me feel like I was closer to her and took a lot of the worry out of those first few weeks she was gone. I think I spent hours and hours just researching this site and reading other posts from other moms for comfort. THANK YOU NFM!!! EXCELLENT JOB! (P.S. I am very PROUD of my daughter)
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