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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.
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:
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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.
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GROUPS: Listed by Name of US Naval Ships (actual US Naval vessels in service)
Looking for other Navy For Moms members with sailors on the same ship/boat?
Here is a list in alphabetical order by name of ship. List doe NOT include groups with fewer than 3 members and/or groups which have been inactive in the last 8 months. Cllckable links have been provided. Just click on the name of the ship. Please post a comment if I missed your sailor's ship (with a link, if possible). Please note that if your son/daughter is in boot camp, his/her barracks are named after ships. The groups listed below are not Navy For Moms groups designated for barracks (please see groups associated with PIR dates). Edited & updated Feb 2017 by BunkerQB.
This list refers to the REAL thing - with sailors, guns, etc.
name of group last date of comment/activity
You may also find members with sons/daughters on a particular ship in one of the following groups, or start your own - it's easy and fun:
AMPHIBIOUS (GATOR NAVY) Active
CARRIER FAMILIES Active
DESTROYER MOMS Active
FRIGATE MOMS (last activity May 2014)
HELICOPTER SQUADRON 14 (last activity Jul 2013)
MN MOMS & MINEMAN MOMS (last activity Jan 2017)
PELELIU READY GROUP (AMPHIBIOUS SQUADRON 3) (last activity Dec 2014)
SUB MOMS Active
I have listed 168 groups associated with ships plus the above 8 groups. If you have a group that is currently active and would like to have the link to your group included on the above list, please post a comment with the link and/or send me a message.
BunkerQBee
Checked the information on the ships as they are listed with the Naval Vessel Register. You'll find it quite interesting.
Click here for a chart of ship classifications NVR Ship Hull Classification Symbols
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Soon enough you'll have grandkids, then the whole process starts over again. Congrats once again to your son.
Still no MCM's?
If your son is going to be a nuke too, he'll be going to A school, Nuke Power School, then Prototype before being sent out to the Fleet. If your son is not a nuke, he'll still have to some training before being sent (like he is going to be a Sonar, or Culinary, or ???
Make sure your son submits your name, address, etc. as family contact to the boat's ombudsman. After you get the name of the ombudsman from him, you should send you a note/email and ask to be put on any communications list/group (newsletter or Facebook private group).
Many subs do not have a Navy For Moms group but will have a Facebook private group (depends on the ombudsman who is usually the wife of a senior officer).
Good luck.
There are groups for some of the subs; for example, USS Jacksonville Families, and I know there are others, but that was the first one that came to mind. Once your son is assigned to a particular sub, you can check to see if there is a group for it. You may also want to join GROTON, CT. SUBSCHOOL & "A" SCHOOL MOMS since he will go there for training at some point. What will his rating (job) be? There are groups for many of the ratings as well.
MN Moms (click on this) is a group for minesweepers. There are only 50 members but join it anyway and post a comment asking if there are any moms/loved ones on the USS Devastator. If there are and you want to start a group, feel free to do so. It's easy. Just click GROUP, then click +ADD. After you create the group be sure to post the link here so I can add the group for the USS Devastator here. I compiled the list for everyone convenience but the groups have been started by other moms. Good luck to you and your son.
Can you add the USS Gonzalez please...
You could see if there is already a discussion within one or both of these groups, Destroyer Moms (DDG) and/or Norfolk Sailors - Family & Friends, and, if not, add a discussion and see if there are others with loved ones on that vessel. If there are several of you, then you could add a group since there is not one presently for that vessel. If you do create a group, be sure to post the link on here so BQB can add it to the list.
(The group names within this reply are clickable links.)
MCM Mine CounterMeasures
Any MCM people out there (see ships below) - please check in.
From the www.nvr.navy.mil website, I found the following MCM ships (links to Naval Vessel Register info on each ship NOT link to any Navy4Mom groups)
USS Champion MCM 4 (NVR specs)
USS Defender MCM 2 (NVR specs)
USS Dextrous MCM 13 (NVR specs)
USS Devastator MCM 6 (NVR specs)
USS Gladiator MCM 11 (NVR specs)
USS Guardian MCM 5 (NVR specs)
USS Warrior MCM 10 (NVR specs)
I did find one Navy 4 Moms group - MN Moms
Click here for a chart of ship classifications NVR Ship Hull Classification Symbols
Can you add a site for the USS Truman? My daughter is on that one and I would love any info you can give on it. Thank you.
Scroll up to number 69 - USS Harry Truman. When the ship is name after a person, it's filed in the Navy Vessel Register under their FIRST NAME. I don't know why.
Number 78 above no longer exists.
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