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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.
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.
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I have definitely have found solace in this forum. I was surprised to have some of my friends say that I was being dramatic when my son left… it hurt. They couldn’t understand where I was coming from, I suppose. All of us moms, dads, wives and girlfriends on here are going through the same things therefore we all can relate. My husband was telling me last night, " thank God you found this site, I was afraid that you would lose your mind if you hadn't", and I have to say, that I agree with him!!!
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Permalink Reply by go-dawgs-go on
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Judithmac,
Our friends will NEVER understand what it is like to send a loved one off to BC. It is nothing like sending them away to college. That's why I love this site, too. We all understand each other, and we are here to share in the tears, fears, challenges, and excitement. I'd be a basket case (worse than I am right now, HAH!) without N4Ms. Hugs to you. I get you, girl!
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Permalink Reply by DREW7062 on
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JUDITHMAC: Welcome! This is a GREAT site... We are one big happy family, when feeling down I get on here and just talk and all the MOMS we all console each other, we laugh, we cry, we share jokes, we have CATMOM509 who is just wonderful with beautiful scriptures and prayers, we have DIANNEP AND LEMONELEPHANT who knows everything lol seriously they are great...just everyone is always POSITIVE, whenever I'm feeling down I just talk and the response is great and if you want to talk to someone without everyone listening you can always send a private message to someone. We're all on this ship together so feel free to talk anytime, I promise you we will ALL LISTEN! Take care and feel better it will be okay and just watch how fast time flies. My son will be doing BATTLESTATIONS next Week. I'm praying they ALL do great! And remember at the end of the tunnel we - you and I and everyone here hopefully will have a SAILOR! I'm so proud of those young men and women. Good Luck
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Permalink Reply by frandnavymom on
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Judithmac welcome to N4M, this site was a god send to me also when my son went through boot camp 2 years ago and last year when he went on his 1st deployment. I joined the group for the USS Bush when he was deployed and it was wonderful to connect with other families who understood what you were going through, we gave each other support, advice and a lot of good info on things that were happening with our sailors. So wherever you son goes to next join that group and if he gets deployed join the group for that deployment duty station. Welcome to the wild but amazing ride of the Navy and be amazed on how much your son will change and grow throughout this time, God bless your son and your family.
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That is the aircraft carrier that was deployed to the fifth & sixth fleet area of responsibilities and was in the Persian Gulf doing the airstrikes against ISIS...it was a very scary and stressful time for all of us, they came home in November 2014 and he is stationed in Washington State now.
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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frandnavymom, Check your My Page.
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