This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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.
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 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.
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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Welcome to the deep, silent world of submarines! If you're new to this world, start by reading the "Pages" of info found in the right-hand column, below the strip of member avatars.
We welcome your questions. But, while you're here, maintain silence... don't slam doors or the lid on the toilet!
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Allen Texas - but from the Oklahoma side (Madill)...small world baby dukie's mama!
FlowerPowerNavyMom, Small world.....I grew up in Lowell. Now in western suburbs of Chicago!
Western Michigan
Jeanette, what is a a CS? Thank you everyone for your comments. I know I am not the only out there missing their Sailor. I am not an empty nester per se. I still have a daughter at home. She will be going back to school to get her masters degree to become a nurse practioner. She is an RN with her BSN and specializes in oncology. She works nights (12-13 hour shift), so when she is home she is usually sleeping. As she is doing right now on the sofa. She seems to sleep where ever at times.
I love that they have this site because it does help to have other people out there that understand the same things we are all going through.
I live in Southern Oregon. Where does everyone else hail from?
There is no point in even trying to explain the difference between missing your child who is away at college and a loved one who is out on deployment and you haven't heard from him/her for over 6 weeks - yes, that was the longest period of silence we experienced while our son was out somewhere. Most people don't get it or they are just too wrapped up with their own separation anxiety to consider circumstances of others. I find the easiest thing to do is come up with a quick, "Nice to see (talk) to you. Got a lot of stuff to do today, better run. Bye." Don't draw it out. Go home, get a glass of wine, cup of tea. Call up a Navy mom. Get on Navy4Moms. You'll feel better in no time. I am lucky to have a group of Navy moms nearby. We get together at least 3-4 times a year, often 6-7. Sometimes it's elaborate, other times very spontaneous and casual. Try and connect with other moms/dads in your geographical area. It takes some effort but so worth it.
Jeanette, I don't cry easily but for some reason your post had me in tears. My son is packing (or should be...) for his move-in tomorrow to his dorm room. We will be empty nesters. It wasn't hard to say bye to our older son (sailor) when he left for college, when he left for boot camp, that was hard. And as others have commented, many doesn't seem to realize the difference, between have your son go to college or military. A friend of mine has been talking about how hard it is that her daughter is leaving for college for weeks, she still has her other daughter at home. Her college daughter will come home for fall break, Thanksgiving, Christmas etc. And mom can go visit her at any time. When we waved bye to our sailor son we knew we wouldn't see him for 2 months, we couldn't call him and never knew when he would be able to call us. In 16 months he's been home once, for Christmas, and I don't know if that is even a given for all sailors (to be able to come for an extended leave, 2 weeks).
Mine, CS-Gold!
Lori, I had to smile about your college comment, the talk is definately out there. Personally, this is the first year I strongly felt the empty nest loss. Moving my daughter into an apartment instead of a dorm, which meant furniture not just stuff seemed real. Then when I came home to clean after the moving tornado, I opened my eyes and the only bed left at home from our 3 kids belongs to my sailor. Took a couple days to process that one!
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