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
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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 Jane on
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Hi - My son's recruiter gave me the website. I'll be forever grateful for this!
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My son told me about this before he left for boot camp. I just read that you are only 2 months old! Someone did a great job organizing such a wonderful site!
Congrats!
Betsy
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I found out about Navy for Moms while watching a Yankees Baseball game. I thought that I would check out the website to see what it was all about. I am very pleased that I have done so. I was a Navy wife many years ago, and I am happy to know that some things never change, but the people who are in the service have. I happened to be married to a not very nice person, hence, being a single parent for as long as I have been one. I am excited to be a part, even a small one, in this community. Sometimes I feel so lost without my best boy, but with encouragement from other Mom's going through the same ups and downs will help tremendously. Thank you for having a website and a community for other Mom's to be a part of.
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I found out about navyformoms last Monday night, March 31st, on a television commercial. Sorry I can't be more specific. I stopped watching and got right on. Funny thing, the first mom I connected with has a son on the same boat as one of my sons. Thanks for all the work put into the sight. I've been almost six years following my sons and wish this was available back then. I know how helpful this is for new moms. Keep up the good work!!
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Permalink Reply by Karen Gallagher on
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woo hoo I am so glad that I was the first one to greet you
funny the next day your son said to mine so you have 2 brothers that are nukes too ?
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I was feeling very depressed because my sailor son had just left today.So ,I started searching for poems to my son and found this website.Finally,a place where people can really understand my feelings.Thank you soo much!
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You're right Teresa... I would have also gone nuts these past two months without the supportive people here at NFM's.
I spent most of the first week after Em's departure crying at anything reminded me of her. Thankfully all the women I have encountered here have been supportive and a good sounding board for me.
Now that I am on the countdown to PIR on 4/18 I have a good grasp on my daughter being an adult member of society instead of being mommy's little girl. She will always be my daughter, but after 4/18 she will belong to the US Navy as a SAILOR
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I found the site 3 weeks in. I sure wish the recruiter would have told us. We didn't have anything like this when my husband was in.I have made so many new friends on here, I hope we can all stay in contact after PIR 4-18. I sure wish I was here Week 1-3.Oh well I'm here to stay now.
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I found out about you on two other sites. www.navy-parents.com and www.mynavyonline.com. Both are great sites and are willing to share other good sites with their members.
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Hi , I found this site on my local news station page,just checking the weather and it was on a little square and I'm glad i found it.
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I think GOD found this website for me! :) Hugs! Jan
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