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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

**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.

Format Downloads:

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

Loading…
Any one else?

Views: 493

Replies to This Discussion

I sure hope so!
Eee! Phone call! Eee!

Got a phone call from my SR today!  It was the best!!!  He sounded tired but good.  He passed a physical test this week.  He is one of the lucky ones that don't have to have their wisdom teeth out :)  He talked to me for about 10 min and the girlfriend 40.  Good thing I like that girl :)

Mine needs his wisdom teeth out. Why do they do that if they don't bother them?

I got a very brief call last Friday. I'd love to have more time to talk to him

No--I only heard from him last Friday when he called to get a name and phone number for a security clearance(??--he always wanted to be a spy when he was younger...)

He was talking like there was someone standing close by, so he just told he liked it and he made the right choice--that was it.

Oh, and he did tell me that they fold a lot of clothes---and I would fit right in there

There probably was someone close by!  Maybe he will get to fullfill those spy dreams now! What is his Navy job?  Hopefully you will hear from him soon.

I hope so. I'm really not used to going this long without hearing from any of my kids.

He is going for cryptology tech. How about your son?

Mines a Suber...He's going for Submarine Electronics Computer Field (SECF). He's really excited about serving on a Sub!  Go figure!  :)

Mine wants to be on a sub. He's STG right now but is hoping he can get reclassified into STS through A school. (He's actually gunning for advanced electrical.) I think if I were living in a metal tube, I'd go stir crazy, but he really wants it and was disappointed by the STG instead of STS.

 

I can't believe how much better I feel today, just having talked to him last night.

I am so laughing right now! That's how I felt when he said he was going to serve on a Sub!  He's also 6'2"tall! He told me he was one of the tallest in the div and is always in the back!

I also feel much better today after talking to my son yesterday. I definitely slept better last night.

And lisap...you like to fold clothes???  Want to come fold mine??!

I hate to fold clothes--I think that with 5 kids that is what they always saw me do---that and drive!

SSMom--my son is in the back with yours--he's 6'4

Lisa, I had a quick call as well last week..my SR needed a number and address for security clearance too..And he sounded very much like someone was over him! Did you get a call this week? I had a quick call yesterday...not as long as some of the others but glad to have what I can get! And, same here with the folding clothes with 5 kids!! The laundry is NEVER "done"!

RSS

© 2024   Created by Navy for Moms Admin.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service