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
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
16-10, March 28th, 2010 class
Views: 501
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by snowmc on
-
So true...I remember around week 9, my son called on a Wednesday...missed the call and thought I was going to have a heart attack. Managed to call him back and found out they had been given extra phone call time. If he had been standing next to me, I would have Gibbs slapped him...lol!
-
-
Permalink Reply by MrsKH on
-
My son is in 15-10 and I did not receive my first phone call until this past Saturday. Sometimes there are long waits to use the phones. There is no guarantee the DI will allow them to call either. He did write me a letter after he had been there two weeks. It is true that "no news is good news." You could make it easy to hear from your LO by sending a fully addressed and stamped envelope along with a fill-in-the-blank and/or multiple choice letter. Something that would be quick and easy to do is good because they will have to skip sleeping in order to find time to write. I hope your LO continues to do well. I used to read the postings from the H-class moms because they have a lot of contact with their LOs. I felt like I could get quite a bit of info from that. It made me feel a little more connected to at least get that secondhand information.
-
-
-
I did receive a call tonight, but not bad news. He needed me to look up his checking account and routing number. When I asked how he was doing, he said "I can't talk about that now this is not a personal call". OK, so we stuck to business and that was it. I was just glad to hear his (hoarse) voice.
-
-
Permalink Reply by pgrlisa on
-
I got a very brief email today saying that my LO is still in the class and everything is fine. She was allowed to have email earlier than the rest of the class because her husband is in Iraq and she can't call him. The good news is that he is on the way home!
-
-
-
How wonderful for your family! Please thank him for his service!
-
-
-
Send on my thanks to him as well - from the heart! I'll bet your LO is excited he is coming home! In time for commissioning?
-
-
-
Glade to hear ya'll are starting to get a few calls. This coming weekend will more than likely be the first big call weekend. If you do not hear from your LO hold fast you will. Keep those phones close this weekend.I know I did not get a phone call till weekend # 4 one email before that. It all depends on the DI. Soon to be two weeks down for ya'll so their on their way....
-
-
Permalink Reply by CarolinaWife on
-
15-10 started getting mail during the middle of the first week. It was sporadic at first, but by the second week it was coming pretty regularly!
-
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
