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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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
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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
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Can prospective members now join? UPDATE
UPDATE! Administration and oversight of Navyformoms.com is in a period of transition from the agency that created it in 2008 to the agency that replaced it in 2015. They are making every effort to approve new members (a batch was approved today, in fact!) and absorb all the functions handled by the previous agency.
Marcy, 6/30/2016
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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Concerneddad, If they have not been added as a member, then they can view much of the site because there is A LOT of the site that is public and one does not even need to be a Member of N4M to join it.
To see what is visible, sign out and then click around the site and see what I mean. Even some of the groups for Spook and special ops ratings are public--not a good thing in my opinion, but then I've had that discussion with some of the Admins of those groups and they disagree with me.
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Permalink Reply by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on
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Lemonelephant is correct. If you see something that concerns you, bring it to the attention of the group and its admin.
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Permalink Reply by Concernedad on
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Well I really don't take the time to monitor the site for inappropriate posts, but more importantly, I may not know what might break OPSEC. It may be a simple post about someone picking up their husband, or not being able to reach their daughter in wherever. We talk on here as friends, however, it's tough to say sometimes what might be considered giving out information.
With all that said, I know on the Dad's board, you must get approval to post on the Spec Ops board. Also, on Facebook, most of the boards are private and you must prove you have a loved one in the military. I'm all for helping out the newbies as I once was one with tons of questions, however first and foremost should be the security of our loved ones.
Again, this is just my opinion
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GOOD NEWS!! I just received two responses.
"Hi Marcy. Thanks for contacting us. Your information on the change in ad agency is correct. Y&R has taken over recently and they are working very hard to absorb all of the functions previously managed by CE. This process has been challenging for all of us. I will research the current situation with navyformoms and see what can be done. I anticipate having an answer in a week or so. Thanks again for reaching out."
"Hi again Marcy. I was able to see there are a lot of people awaiting approval to join the group. I was also able to see that about 50 people awaiting approval were approved today (because of you reaching out - YEAH!) but the group is now literally full to capacity. The only way to add more is to remove some inactive members. I have a team researching to see how we may increase capacity or determine who some of the inactive members might be, but this could take weeks or again months. Thanks again for shining a light on this issue."
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