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Navy For Moms

This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

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**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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Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Amphibious (Gator Navy)

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A place were we family members with Sailors on amphibious boats can come and talk ask questions and just hang out.. so anyone out there with a loved one on a amphibious jump on in lets share stories..

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Latest Activity: Jul 6, 2023

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Comment by JAS-WA on September 30, 2014 at 9:03am: Hi Mary (Wade's Mom). I also have a son on the Gunston Hall. I haven't heard from him for a few weeks. Earlier in this deployment, after not hearing from him for several months,I reached out to the ship's ombudsman. She was very helpful. I hope you can connect with you son soon. Sure will be nice when they are back on this side of the world.

Comment by CTmomof3 on September 21, 2014 at 5:50pm: Does anyone here have someone on the USS Anchorage? My son will PCS to it in a few months.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on August 19, 2014 at 6:56pm: For anyone with sailors in the Norfolk area - Fleet Fest is coming up on October 16! Info: http://www.discovermwr.com/fleetfest/

Comment by Forever proud on July 2, 2014 at 11:33pm: Thank you! And to you and yours as well!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 2, 2014 at 11:21pm: My fingers and toes are crossed that your box goes right to him no matter what!! Sending you hugs and warm thoughts to your son :)

Comment by Forever proud on July 2, 2014 at 10:48pm: Oh no! I should have known - they didnt seem really confident in their knowledge of the process. I was anxious to get it moving (he must be cold if hes asking for a blanket!) and jumped the gun. I should have waited until i read your response before heading out. Now he's going to be cold that much longer. I'm going to go light my blue candle. It's a blue candle kind of night.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 2, 2014 at 6:42pm: Did you mail to an FPO address? If so, and without the full nine digit ZIP code, it will be returned to sender. The policy went into effect a year ago this month. Here's the article from Navy.mil; you can show it to the UPS store - http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=75365

Comment by Forever proud on July 2, 2014 at 5:49pm: Hey Marcy - thanks for all the great tips on what/how to send care packages. I had taken a box with the blanket and dress blues to a UPS store to ship off and even though i had the nine digit zip code, when they entered it into their system it wouldnt take those last four digits. Now I'm worried it will get lost in Narnia. Do you know what happens to those packages? This was on Saturday, so no telling where it is by now.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 1, 2014 at 4:17pm: Civies are ok if he's off duty, and I posted more in the Norfolk group :)

Comment by AOnavymomTN on July 1, 2014 at 4:10pm: Marcy, one more question (I promise), this weekend, when we go on base, to go on his ship, does my son need to wear his uniform? Or civi's? I would ask him to ask his sponsor, but like I said, she's not very responsive to these types of questions. And thank you for the information you provided earlier!