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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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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

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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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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.

Members: 1304
Latest Activity: Feb 11

READ THE "PAGES" FIRST!

NEW MEMBERS !!

PLEASE READ ARTICLES IN THE "PAGES" AREA

in the right-hand column, under the avatars ----->

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 Cath Bubblehead mom on August 29, 2015 at 12:08pm: Rhonda - congrats on your new grandbaby!

Nana Donna - it's great that you got to see his boat come in. I did not realize until my son was underway that boomers do NOT get that kind of home coming! In fact we might not even be notified that they are returning until they are home!

In my son's case, he was actually transferred at sea to a coast guard vessel and sailed back to an Island near the home port. He was on a ride along since his boat has been in dry dock.

In the end all was well as long as he was home safely!

Comment by Nana Donna (nanaTo2Saliors) on August 29, 2015 at 11:40am: Hello all, I haven't posted in a long time but do pop in often and read.

My grandson just returned last week from a 7 month deployment on the USS Albuquerque it's final deployment. It was so hard for him to be gone that long especially for his wife and 2 small children. We were able to go to San Diego and watch the boat come into port. It was amazing watching him come of the boat. His little 7 month old son cried when he tried to hold him, but his 4 year old was so excited to see her Daddy.

While he was underway his wife did receive several emails but there was a couple periods of very long silence. Here is a funny thing about emails. After we welcomed him hone she was sitting there 2 days later and received 2 emails from him, so the delivery is certainly delayed/

Comment by NonnaB on August 29, 2015 at 4:56am: Rhonda,congratulations on the new grandbaby. My son is silent now but emailed my DIL last week. He wrote that he gets our emails but has limited time to respond. When he gets to port, I am hoping for a shout out of some sort.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on August 29, 2015 at 12:45am: Regarding emails, My son said even if I don't often get one from him, he gets all of mine and said keep em coming as that is his lifeline to the outside world.

Comment by LindaGirl on August 28, 2015 at 11:24pm: Phoebs, so glad to see that you found that "lost" email from your sailor. That should keep you going for awhile. What I do, is I keep all my sailors emails in a folder on the computer, so when they are out & I haven't heard from them in awhile, I read over his past emails & that makes me feel better.

Comment by Phoebs on August 28, 2015 at 10:57pm: Rhonda881-thank you and Congrat on that new grandson! Glad to hear everyone is healthy and baby is doing well.

Comment by Rhonda8881 on August 28, 2015 at 10:51pm: Phoebs, don't give up. The last deployment my sailor was on we went almost 9 weeks without communication because they were on a mission. That is when they are running silent. I started to get concerned even though I was an "experienced" Navy mom. It had never been that long before. When he finally was able to contact us, he was even happy to talk to us!!! He said he had been working so much he wouldn't have had time to email us anyway.

Haven't posted in a long time. My sailor is on shore duty for another several months so I haven't had much to say.
Best news is my sailor became a first time dad on July 21st!!! He is now the proud father of a beautiful baby boy. Everyone is doing find. Brayden did make his appearance almost 8 weeks early but is perfectly healthy and growing like a weed. His mom is diabetic is the reason for the premature birth but we were truly blessed with how healthy he was.
Hope all is well with all of your sailors.

Comment by Phoebs on August 28, 2015 at 10:31pm: Thanks Cath Bubblehead mom. Its good to know some of the glich messages in advance. I have to tell you I went back into my email to read your message to my husband and my whole day brightened up I received that long awaited email. Life is good for a while now. Thanks for the support

Comment by Cath Bubblehead mom on August 28, 2015 at 9:08pm: Hang in there Phoebs! Many of us have been there. Keep your emails coming! About halfway through my sons underway, my email was returned "this person does not exist" or something to that effect! All I could think of was he was thrown off the boat - ha! It turned out to be an email glitch with the boat. He is getting your emails even if he cannot respond!

Comment by Phoebs on August 28, 2015 at 8:59pm: I haven't been on here in a while. However, I'm now working on over 30 days of not receiving even an email from my sailor. Last email we received was to let us know he had finished his Quals and should be receiving his dolphins hopefully that night. I made the mistake of getting excited to hear about the new experience, I'm still waiting. Since this is his second patrol I knew there would be a time when he would go quite. I thought I was prepared and found things to keep me busy. Even his dad is missing hearing from him. I continue to email and I know that no news is good news. Tonight when I checked my email I even got a little weepy, I so wanted to hear from him.