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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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Navy Speak

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Navy.com Para Familias

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Norfolk Sailors - Family & Friends

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For families and friends of Sailors who are stationed at Norfolk; for either Sea Duty or Shore Duty Sailors. Just make sure to keep OPSEC issues in mind and not disclose ship movements in advance.

Weather - Norfolk

Members: 1314
Latest Activity: on Monday

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 Forever proud on April 26, 2015 at 10:13am: Momma I just found out that my son's best friend (freshly graduated from A school and headed to Norfolk) will also be on the Eisenhower!

Comment by Little lady on April 25, 2015 at 8:36am: Hey Norfolk Va Moms!!!!! My sailor is Stationed in Norfolk!!! Please have a awesome day!!!!! So Proud of My Son!!!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on April 24, 2015 at 11:08am: Hi all - Happy Friday! Got my RED on today ;-)

Wow, that's pretty cool that you two know each other from high school - what a small world!

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Comment by MarylandMom on April 23, 2015 at 9:01pm: Hi Tammy !!!

Glad you have made your way to this site !!

Yes, The Maryland Moms are meeting for lunch on Saturday. I have to work and won't be able to attend. I hope we can get to one of those together sometime !!

I can't wait to let Steve know that Cory is there !!

Comment by Navymom21 on April 23, 2015 at 1:51pm: Any moms here have anyone on the Churchill?

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on April 23, 2015 at 10:47am: Hi all - Happy Thursday!

letyrod - glad your son was able to move off base. My son lives in an apt in VA Beach with another nuke that he went through school with. They have become best of friends over the last 2 years and also shared an apt in NY. His roommate is on the Bush. It's unfortunate that people can't respect other's property - I've told my son to make sure he marks all his stuff when he goes on the ship!

Comment by John and Yvonne on April 22, 2015 at 9:36pm: Wow! There are a lot of you moms who's sons have arrived here recently! Just to let you all know, my husband and I open our home on the weekends and invite sailors over to eat, play board games, eat some more and hang out together. So. if any of them would be interested, we would love to invite them over to join us. We have sailors from several different ships who come over and if they need a ride we are always happy to provide them with one. Let us know and we can pm any of you our cell number.

Yvonne and John

Comment by MarylandMom on April 22, 2015 at 8:58pm: Hi Momma !! I'm also from Maryland !! My son is stationed in Norfolk on the USS WASP. He is an IT. Welcome.

Comment by Forever proud on April 22, 2015 at 8:35pm: Letyrod24 I hate that your sailor had such a bad experience with theft. It doesn't take them long to figure out they need to lock their stuff up tight all the time. My son lost a few items early on until he labelled everything with a big fat Sharpie pen with his name and didn't leave his rack withhout stowing it. Glad he is in offbase housing now!

Comment by Forever proud on April 22, 2015 at 8:31pm: Momma you can ask anything here, its pretty new to most of us and we all probably asked the same questions at some point. There are several bases in Norfolk, but as the Eisenhower is an aircraft carrier it will be parked at the main base. Your son being in aviation will have an action packed time when deployed, and alot of down time when in port. Since you live in Maryland you should try to visit him and he can take you around, show you his base and his ship. Once you get a look at things, it is much easier put it all together. It took me almost a year to figure out the difference between "being on duty" and "going to work"!