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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:

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:

RTC Graduation

**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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Sub Moms

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!

 Please, if you no longer want to be a part of N4M's consider NOT deleting your profile as everything you have ever posted will disappear when you delete it .  You can leave a group but don't permanently delete your profile!

Group Administrator: Kaye S. Kaye S.

Members: 1304
Latest Activity: Feb 11

READ THE "PAGES" FIRST!

NEW MEMBERS !!

PLEASE READ ARTICLES IN THE "PAGES" AREA

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BEFORE YOU ASK QUESTIONS !!

These articles are the "reference library" for moms, ready to answer FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) 24x7 (twenty-four hours, seven days a week).  You may not have to post a question after all!  Thanks, Kaye S.

 NOTE:  THERE ARE MORE PAGES THAN DISPLAYED -

FOR A COMPLETE LIST, CLICK ON "VIEW ALL" AT

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Comment by tina41 on August 23, 2014 at 11:29pm

hello all!!

I got to Skype with my sailor!!!!  it has been two months since I had talked to him.  I hated to say bye.  now I am here crying.  it never gets easier to say.   he is looking tired, but good.  

Comment by LindaGirl on August 23, 2014 at 11:28pm
CoTwinSailorsMom, I'm so glad you took a stand this time around & stayed till the very end. I can imagine how you felt when your son told you that the first time around. My heart breaks for both of you to have that memory.
Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on August 23, 2014 at 11:12pm

The last airport trip earlier this month I told the ex we were staying until either he was on the plane or told us it was OK to leave. We stood on one side of the glass he on the other after he had gone through security. Small airport. Until he said he was going to the bath room and then they would be loading so we could go. held hands thru the glass for a moment and then we left. 

Comment by Kevsmom93 on August 23, 2014 at 11:07pm

CO-Twin my heart breaks for you can't even imagine how awful that must have been when he told you that :-(  You are clearly still bothered by that moment and I'm so sorry. I hope you were able to make him understand it wasn't your choice. 

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on August 23, 2014 at 10:26pm
Those goodbye sadness goes both ways. At Christmas time when we took my nuke son to the airport. He was in line and my Ex husband did not want to wait and made me leave. (he drove) Later my son called and he was so sad when he turned around and we were gone. That broke my heart.
Comment by Kevsmom93 on August 23, 2014 at 9:30pm

LindaGirl don't worry I get it I was there and yes it was a difficult moment. I do appreciate your support as a mom who understands. I neglected to share this story with you all because  I knew mrsb and ProudNavyMom#1 were getting ready to say their goodbyes too. I didn't want to share something that I knew would be upsetting. It's amazing how just reading someone else's experience can be just as hurtful especially when you can relate to it so well. Perhaps after she got on that plane she had time to reflect on what she said and regretted it. I know I went and sat with my husband and we stayed until our son's flight took off. We even stood at the window until we could see the last faint glimmer of the planes lights as it flew off into the night :-) You know every little bit counts! 

Comment by LindaGirl on August 23, 2014 at 5:15pm
Kevsmom93, don't think I could have handled that comment as well as you did. If that mom had said to me, "oh well, college is just as hard", I probably would have said something like, "oh, really. Tell me about it...knowing that my child could be sent into a war zone, at any time, any minute, it's even harder then college, because a military mom has to worry 24/7 whether her child is being deployed somewhere, not knowing where, & wondering when we'll see our child again". Thanks for letting me vent, but I just saw "Red" when I read what you wrote & couldn't help myself.
Comment by Kevsmom93 on August 23, 2014 at 2:53pm

Now I'm laughing even harder! I know it's not supposed to be funny but from a modern day perspective it is. How in the world did they even manage? That is amazing.

No, Ryan never did allow us to take in any uniform pictures while he was on leave. One of his friends came home after graduating MCRD in April. The Dad works with my husband and he told us that their son put on every single uniform and allowed the family to take pictures! I was so jealous! 

I did get a few of Kevin in his Navy Service uniform when he was here in May but only because he already had it on for a visit to his past high school teachers. 

Comment by Mark on August 23, 2014 at 2:33pm

Glad you were able to keep your head Kevsmom, never fails to amaze, how clueless people can be sometimes.  Hope your were able to get the pics of your boys that you wanted; the Zouaves actually went into battle with those getups, if you can believe it.

Comment by Kevsmom93 on August 23, 2014 at 2:26pm

I meant ZOUAVE! oops

 
 
 

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