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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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
Latest Activity
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
should i be concerned??
my son left for Boot Camp yesterday, September 5th.
He texted me at 9pm, letting me know he landed in Chicago ...
that's it -
no phone call, no scripted call (don't know what that is anyway)
he had to have been given a chance to call .... I understand that maybe he didn't WANT to because it has been an emotional few days but ..... if that's the case, forget Boot Camp --- I'm going to ring his neck!!
anyone have feedback?
Views: 105
Replies are closed for this discussion.
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Angie on
-
There could be many reasons he didn't call...he is a grown adult it was his choice
-
-
Permalink Reply by Anti M on
-
Sometimes the ones at the "back of the line" don't get a chance to call. Might not have been a choice. Don't assume he chose not to talk to you.
Never assign blame, to either the Navy or the recruit, because you don't know what was going on. In processing is chaos. Chalk it up to "stuff happens" and move on.
-
-
Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
-
As Anti M said "stuff happens" and some recruits don't get to make that "I'm here!" call for various reasons. The RDC's sometimes ask later if there is anyone who did not get to make the call and then stand over them as the make the scripted call, but many choose not to do it because they do not want to be singled out at that point and they also figure that their loved ones know that they made it. The only guaranteed call is the "I'm a Sailor!" call in the last week of BC. Some do get to make an "I'm still alive!" call in week 3 or 4, but that call can be lost for many reasons. At this point, don't expect a call, but do have your phone available from 8ish am to 8ish pm Central Time and be pleasanty surprised if you do receive a call. Calls usually come in the mornings on weekdays because the "I'm a Sailor!" calls are in the afternoon and evenings, but they can come anytime during those hours on the weekend. Remember "No news is good news!"
Be sure to check out the info in your other Discussion, son left yesterday, 9/5, for boot camp (clickable link).
-
-
-
thank you lemonelephant - you're right, no news is good news --- you are quite knowledgeable on this site. I've noticed you have given quite a bit of feedback to all of us moms :). thank you!
-
-
-
You are very welcome.
-
-
-
p.s. -
i accidentally posted to the general discussion forum ... again, i am new to this
-
-
Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on
-
OK. He is probably overwhelmed, tired, a bit scared, missing home and his family. He has to follow orders. He left yesterday and texted you at 9 PM. It's now 5:57 EST and you "GOING TO (w)RING HIS NECK!" ?? Really?? I assume you said this with tongue in cheek.
Come on mom. He signed up to become a US Sailor and not to go to summer camp. No. There is no guarantee that he gets a chance to call. It sounds like you suspect he might be a little emotional and may have chosen not to call even if he had the chance. That is OK. He simply may not want to break down in front of 25 guys standing around waiting to use the phone.
You are in the right place. You are a brand new newbie. It's OK to vent. We get it. We have all been there. We have plenty of crying towels on hand. At the same time, this is your beginning of a journey as a Navy mom. There is no time like today, right now to start getting tougher. You are going to need it, especially during deployment when you don't hear from him from long, long periods of time. Yes, one time we didn't hear from our sailor for 7 weeks. No letters. No calls. No texts. No emails.
Browse around and join some of the groups, especially the Boot Camp Moms group and your PIR group as soon as you get the FORM letter which will give you an address, his ship and div numbers, his PIR date and the password to print out the parking pass for PIR. This letter will also list the 4 people on his guest list for PIR.
You'll find lots of support. Many shoulders to cry on and a few words of wisdom from those of us who have been around the block a few times.
Be proud of your son. Be proud of yourself for having rear a child to young adulthood who qualified to go to Navy Boot Camp. Take care.
-
-
-
ok, listen -
of course i said "wring his neck" with tongue in cheek.
this is my first time with all of this --- i was told i would get a call when he arrived to GL ... THAT'S ALL
i'm not freaking out ... i just posted to the forum asking for feedback being this is my first time dealing with this. All the veteren moms out there that have been dealing with this for some time now, great. ---- But take yourself back to when you were at my point. I'm not going to be told to calm down. I know he' a big boy. and yes WE ARE VERY PROUD OF HIM. i just put the post out there and since have been told to "get over it" "Come on mom" "It's his choice not to call" ---- i am tough .. i just asked a question.
forget it ... i'll just keep navigating the site like i have all this time --- i'm not going to have people knock me when i am UNDERSTANDABLY having a tough FEW DAYS ... not MONTHS or YEARS
-
-
-
NO ONE IS KNOCKING YOU. "Get over it" ?? I didn't say that. NO. You need to absorb it. Learn to live with it. Let the pain, the hole in your heart, the emptiness become a part of you because trust me when I say - it'll get tougher - not easier.
Anti M, Angie, lemonelphant and I have contributed thousands of hours to this site and posted thousands of times. We post because we CARE. We are just moms like YOU - 5 years ago when my son joined the Navy and today. No more and no less.
It sounds like you don't need us. We didn't post the proper supportive responses (except for LE), so you are flipping us off.
-
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
