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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.

FIRST TIME HERE?

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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy Speak

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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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Seeking all Michigan Moms!!!!!!!! Got a question... want to chat with others from Michigan.. Moms, then join us!!!!!

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!

Members: 316
Latest Activity: Apr 11

Welcome come on in start a discussion, ask questions and answer a few too!!!!!!!

HAVE FUN !!!!!!

RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:

In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.

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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on November 29, 2014 at 10:48pm: Pamesue - so glad you heard from your son. Hope it works out for you to visit at Christmas.

Comment by pamesue on November 29, 2014 at 10:34pm: Hope you ladies had a wonderful thanksgiving. I received my 1st call today from my son, happy dance all day. I cannot wait to see him at graduation . I am hoping to adopt him for Christmas day - we will make the drive if we can. Its a good day.

Comment by LoriM (div 337--Kevin's submom) on November 28, 2014 at 11:09am: Colleen, wow you basically spent the whole day on the phone with your kids--a perfect Thanksgiving in my mind.

Hope everyone had a nice day and enjoy the rest of the weekend. Try not to do too much shopping.

Comment by tysmom on November 28, 2014 at 7:56am: Colleen: I am soooo glad you got to talk to each of your kids for that long. Life changes are hard.

Comment by Colleen on November 28, 2014 at 6:28am: I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Our Sailor called yesterday - we talked for 2 hours. It am so grateful that we got to talk that long. We talked to our daughter for 3 hours. We haven't had Thanksgiving alone since 1990 - weird.

Comment by Christina on November 27, 2014 at 8:53am: Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
My sailor eas home the last 19 days and left for Cuba again last evening. It's so hard saying goodbye again. But our time together was wonderful.

Comment by tysmom on November 27, 2014 at 8:51am: I am going to try NOT to cry while we are tog this last little while. We are having breakfast tog. my sailor choose choose corned beef hash, bacon and pancakes. 3 1/2 hrs then I will cry!!!!

Have a blessed Thanksgiving! I am so thankful to live in a free country!!!

Comment by Colleen on November 25, 2014 at 3:11pm: Welcome pamesue! My Sailor has been in since July 2009. I'm north of GR - Rockford. This is a great group of Ladies!

Hope you all get to hear from your Sailor on Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I hope it's a great one!

Comment by LoriM (div 337--Kevin's submom) on November 25, 2014 at 1:23pm: Lost power again this morning for about a half hour. Trying to do as much as I can now. We never loose power and if we do it clicks right back on.

Comment by Lorraine on November 25, 2014 at 11:01am: The wind was so bad all day I'm surprised we didn't lose power too. Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your families.