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
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
Ship 12 (USS Triton) Divisons 029 & 030 (Brother Divisions)
Welcome to the discussion group for divisions 029 & 030
These two divisions are brother divisions and will be training together from the beginning through BS21 their final test. Your SRs, soon to be SAILORS, are becoming friends, and some of them may be heading to A School together.
Get to know each other, your SRs are!
Please still use the Main Wall of the PIR Group to post questions and concerns, we “veteran” moms don’t always get to into the discussion area as often as we would like.
Every single question that is asked is important
Every single concern is genuine
Every single member is important to us
We don't want to accidentally overlook any of them or you.
Hang in there!!!
Views: 3165
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by amandamomof4 on
-
that I do not know was there an I in the information you got from the recruiter?
It doesn't say in the form letter and we have not gotten a personal letter yet
I got the form letter here in AZ yesterday and it was postmarked the 11th
-
-
Permalink Reply by cddsamson on
-
I am from Az too! Recieved the form letter indicating graduation is 11/30/12. Where in Az are you?
-
-
-
i'm from Surprise :)
How about you?
-
-
-
my son left the 4th how about yours
-
-
Permalink Reply by ChiefDad on
-
The recruiter didn't say anything about an I.
My son is going on to Sub School. It's great to see that barracks is named for a submarine.
-
-
-
oh that is cool that it is named after a submarine, my son is going to sub school too.
hmmm I guess we will just have to wait for real letters to find out if they are intergrated divisions or not.
-
-
-
Amanda, please tell you son welcome to the "Brotherhood of the Phin". I was a submariner for 20 years, if you have any questions about the deep side of the Navy, please ask. Your son is about to embark on a thrill ride journey of unending training, qualifications, drills, and just plain hard work and in exchange he will be presented with unbelievable unique opportunities to see and do things that most people only hear about in books or movies. During my bubblehead career, in addition to being a submarine crewman, I also got to be a Deep Submergence Vehicle co-pilot, and underwater remotely operated vehicle (robot) pilot, a semi truck driver, and a Recruit Company Commander (now called a RDC). Just remind him to look for opportunities and be ready to take them on. Now lets cheer them on through the adventure of bootcamp!!
-
-
-
I will tell him ChiefDad.. I have not heard that particular expression before :) Did you retire recently or has it been a while.
-
-
-
The expression is an old one still in use. The "Phin" is a abbreviation for dolphin, the submarine qualification warfare pin is a pair of dolphins surrounding a boat. In this case the dolphins are the fish type and not the mammal. I retired 16 years ago.
-
-
-
oh I see I had heard/read about the dolphin pin just didn't connect it :)
my dad has done some sub runs and says it's pretty cool.
were you on fast attack or boomers?
-
-
-
Both. The boomers were great because the schedules were almost set in stone and you got a break from the action when the other crew took the boat out to sea. However, fast attacks have more exciting missions and get to see more liberty ports. There is now a third class of submarine (SSGN), four of the Ohio class boomers have had their missiles removed and are equipped to perform missions similar to fast attacks.
-
© 2025 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
