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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 scubagirl on October 22, 2014 at 11:03pm

We left on Sunday.  My son flew out Saturday am but we had his older brother and sister with us and we had not been on a family vacation with the older kids  since my daughter graduated highschool(16 years) so we took Saturday to visit Chicago.  We spent Friday night at O'hare with our son.  Any moment we could see him we wanted to be there. 

Comment by Robin on October 22, 2014 at 10:58pm
Thanks this is what we thought initially. His recruiter told him Great Lakes is where all MM A schools are located. I that is the case except for Subs. Looks like BESS first then the sub MM school also there in Groton. Therefore he will likely head to Groton right after PIR. The ones that stay in Great Lakes have daytime Liberty all PIR weekend so we were going to fly home on Monday. Guess now we can leave late Saturday. Thank you all for your responses.
Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on October 22, 2014 at 10:55pm
Ok - I take exception to "harsh" winters LOL - groton is near the water - usually mild for the NE!
I guess if you are from a warm state - it's harsh - but Chicago is really harsh!,
Comment by scubagirl on October 22, 2014 at 10:41pm

Robin, my son is in Groton with the same rating.  He arrived at the end of July.  He had to wait a couple of weeks for BESS to start and he had graduation on Oct 3rd.  He know is in Machinist school.  First they have about 3 weeks of schooling on basic tools and such.  My son is 2 weeks into that school.  He said lots of notes to take.  Next will be his A school and he should finish that next spring.  During a school he found out he would be MM on weapons which is what he wanted to do.  He may have C school next.  All of this is in Groton.  I went for his BESS graduation and had a very nice weekend with him and his buddy.  Beautiful area.  He had watch on Saturday so he could not leave base.  I went sight seeing on my own.  My husband was at a business meeting and could not make the trip.  We had time together on Sunday and I flew home on Monday.  Everyone seems to love Groton, of course the harsh winter has not started yet.  Good luck to you and your son. 

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on October 22, 2014 at 9:21pm

Most likely he will leave BC for Groton where he will attend BESS and A school and maybe others - I am not familiar with the MM rate requirements. With a few exceptions, most submariners train at Groton for A school.

Comment by Robin on October 22, 2014 at 9:05pm
Question| my son is in boot camp. He signed up for MM Subs. Will he stay in Great Lakes and go to MM school and then go to BESS? Or. Go to BESS first. Really trying to plan our flights to PIR.
Comment by KWL's mom on October 21, 2014 at 9:12pm
For all those who wanted to pass-on my son's poem, he said that was fine. And I remembered again why I don't get on here often; I am technology challenged! :) I read everything on e-mail and seldom actually come to the N4M's site. :( I love reading all the posts though.
Comment by tysmom on October 21, 2014 at 5:21pm

Eight bells and all is well....maybe this saying came from what you wrote....end of 4 hour watch and everything was good.

Comment by Kaye S. on October 21, 2014 at 3:22pm

NOTE:  To keep these "lessons of the week" from getting lost, I've created a new "PAGE" (look in the right-hand column - click 'View All') where I'll list them for future reference. Please feel free to direct others to this PAGE.  Enjoy!

Navy Culture Lesson of the Week:
SHIPS' BELLS

Bells have a centuries-long tradition of varied use in the navies and merchant fleets of the world. Signaling, keeping time, and sounding alarms are important in a ship's routine and readiness. Their functional and ceremonial uses have made them a symbol of considerable significance to the United States Navy.

Before the advent of the chronometer, time at sea was measured by the trickle of sand through a half - hour glass. One of the ship's boys had the duty of watching the glass and turning it when the sand had run out. When he turned the glass, he struck the bell as a signal that he had performed this vital function. From this ringing of the bell as the glass was turned evolved the tradition of striking the bell once at the end of the first half hour of a four hour watch, twice after the first hour, etc., until eight bells marked the end of the four hour watch. The process was repeated for the succeeding watches. This age-old practice of sounding the bell on the hour and half hour has its place in the nuclear and missile oriented United States Navy at the dawn of the Twenty-First Century, regulating daily routine, just as it did on our historic vessels under sail in the late Eighteenth Century.

The sounding of a ship's bell found a natural application as a warning signal to other vessels in poor visibility and fog. In 1676 one Henry Teonage serving as a chaplain in the British Mediterranean Fleet recorded , "so great a fog that we were fain to ring our bells, beat drums, and fire muskets often to keep us from falling foul one upon another". Ringing a ship's bell in fog became customary. In 1858, British Naval Regulations made it mandatory in that function. Today, maritime law requires all ships to carry an efficient bell.

The bell is an essential link in a ship's emergency alarm system. In the event of a fire, the bell is rung rapidly for at least five seconds, followed by one, two or three rings to indicate the location of a fire - Forward, amidships, or aft respectively.

The bell is also used to signal the presence of important persons. When the ship's captain, a flag officer, or other important person arrives or departs, watch standers make an announcement to the ship and ring the bell. This tradition extends to major naval command transitions, often held aboard vessels associated with the command.

Comment by LoriM (div 337--Kevin's submom) on October 21, 2014 at 9:23am

Thank you everyone for the help in shipping big items.

Mark, thanks for the some places to golf. We are always looking for some new places.

 
 
 

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