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
Hello! I have a few questions and I would value your input. Thank you!
I'm sorry to bother all of you with this long post but I would love to get your feedback and advice, if you have the time. My name is Emily and I am currently almost 21 and entering my 3rd year of college with plans to graduate in spring 2015. Please allow me to give you some background information.
I am an only child who comes from a single parent household. My mom raised me and because it is just the two of us we are very close. I've known since the age of 7 that I wanted to work with animals and help people with special needs, those suffering from a mental illness, at-risk youth and individuals who are disabled. Which i am excited to do.
At the age of 10, I told my mom that I was planning to join the military (at that time I wasn't sure which branch & now I know that it will be the Navy). My mom is an extremely supportive but overprotective mom ( which isn't bad at all), but when I told her that i was going to join, she made me promise not to join. So I put that on the back burner and finished high school, got into the college that I'd always wanted to attend and I am loving it, but I know once I graduate I have to do more with my life and the Navy is something that I know I was meant to be a part of. I can't stop thinking about being a part of the military and the Navy so I guess my question ( to all of you mothers and family members of Sailors and SR's) is this; I ultimately know that I'm going to join, but I still want to honor my mom and her wishes, as well as earn her support, but I know that this decision that I've made will not be one that she will support in the beginning and maybe never, how can I honor her and make her understand that this is something that is a necessity for my life.
I know this: if I don't join and make a difference I will regret that decision for the rest of my life.
Thank you for all of your help,
-Emily
Views: 243
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on
-
Why do you feel you have to be in the military to make a difference? Based on what you said you enjoy doing, why not major in child psychology or if you are so inclined, go to medical school and become a psychiatrist? If you do go forth, how about getting your degree and apply as an officer and work in the medical field?
-
Permalink Reply by EmilyFutureSR on
-
Hello,
Thank you for giving me your advice. I know that I don't have to be in the military to make a difference, I know that what ever I do in life as long as it benefit others and helps them then a difference in their lives will be made. My current college degree path is for Equine Science with a business minor, and I will be getting certified to facilitate therapeutic riding. I am thinking about joining as an officer because I will have completed 4 years of college and received a bachelors degree, but I don't think that my degree could be applied to anything that would benefit the Navy. Thank you!
-
Permalink Reply by Angie on
-
What is your GPA? What do you think you could do in the Navy with that type of degree?
I recommend you go talk to an Officer recruiter to get a realistic idea of what you can and can't do in the Navy with that type of degree. Just 'cause you have a degree doesn't mean you can go into an Officers program.
I saw, lots and lots of people who went enlisted due to the degree they had wasn't one that the Navy wanted or needed, and/or they didn't have a great GPA.
-
-
Thank you! I will look into that.
-
Permalink Reply by Anti M on
-
What are your mom's specific concerns? Find those out and address them; what she fears might not be realistic.
-
-
Thank you Anti M, I will try to figure out what I think that she would be concerned about and make sure that I have answers to her concerns.
-
-
What do you want to do? What kind of job do you want to do in the Navy? With what you said you want to do, you have to be an Officer...also working with animals is out of the question, only ones who work with animals in the Navy are the MA dog handlers.
I recommend you figure out what you want to do and get your ducks in a row so you can talk to your mom on a logical level not just a I might do this but not sure how I do it.
-
-
Thank you Angie. I will make sure that I have a few jobs and ideas in mind so that I can be better prepared to talk to my mom.
-
-
You need to go to more than Navy recruiters. Please at least talk to Army recruiters, the only reason I say this is with the college background you have you can be eligible to go into their Veternarian program, but its only through the Army. the army actually has many Vet Clinics on Navy bases for the military dogs,and open to military personnel on the base. I wanted my sailor to look into the program for Army after she finished her Navy enlistment but she didn't want to stay in the military. Just an idea, you would get the education for animals, and possibly translate that to helping people with service animals. My daughter is also big into horses, and wants to focus her education on large animals, the Navy may be the wrong division of military for you. Your education could possibly be paid for. There is really nothing in the Navy for any types of work with animals, but I am sure about opportunities in the Army.
-
-
Thank you Kathy! I will continue my research so that when I talk to my mom I will be able to address her concerns better. I will do more research about the branches and see if be army would be a better fit. Thank you!
© 2025 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
