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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

**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

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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New to this life?  SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW NAVY MOMS

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Comment by LindaGirl on September 1, 2015 at 7:53am
Kevsmom93...hi, so nice to hear from you again. I can just imagine how happy you are to have both boys back. I remember last year when my Marine son returned from his 7 month deployment from Africa, I was one happy lady. He has since been honorably discharged from the Marines after 6 years, this past Spring & deciding his next move. Our Navy son is getting ready for his 7 month deployment this fall, so he'll be gone for all the holidays, as you could probably have guessed from the Calendar squares I made. Congratulations to your son on earning his Dolphins. What great news!!
Comment by Kevsmom93 on August 31, 2015 at 9:57pm

Enjoying everyone's posts! Funny how we all have so many things in common, it never ceases to amaze me. Every email to my boys while deployed ended with "Please stay safe and stay healthy! Hugs and kisses Love your always proud Mom." I think if I had deviated from my usual closing they would have thought something was wrong with me...ha ha ha./lol/gmao/he he/ho ho...whatever is the trend I don't know anymore!  That post/topic from way back made me crack-up! 

LindaGirl: I  think your squares are awesome, they just tugged at my heart strings. Fantastic idea and your son is going to love each and every one of them! Our youngest who is the Marine, returned from a 7 month deployment in July and our Sailor returned this month from his, where I might add......(drum roll)...... he earned his fish :-D Nice to have both boys back, makes for happy parents. 

mrsb you have one incredible compassionate and giving heart! 

Thinking of all all of you who are missing your boys. 

Comment by mrsb on August 31, 2015 at 6:04pm

LindaGirl, I love your calendar squares!!!!  I only did two for my son; I had 4 but a wife had just arrived to the base and there were none left, so I gave her two of mine.  It was good though as it's hard to figure out what to put on them!

Comment by William in Nashua on August 31, 2015 at 3:32pm

 I too write we are  proud of  him and the family loves him.    When he does come back  I get a text or a call then he is off to find a restaurant to get a quick break from boat food.

Eaglefan our son's boat is out there constantly I try to tell him look at how much money you are saving by eating every meal on the boat most of the year instead of back in Hawaii and getting your pick of  restaurants haha that doesn't go over too good though. 

Comment by LoriM (div 337--Kevin's submom) on August 31, 2015 at 1:06pm

Phoebs, that is funny that you always tell your son that you are proud of him, my husband always says the same thing. I always say I love you and I get the you too. I know when he actually says I love you he is really missing home.

Comment by Phoebs on August 30, 2015 at 8:06pm

Eaglefan-hopefully you start hearing from your son soon. I think the reason it got to me this time there has been a few issues with his financial stuff and I had hoped to receive an answer to the issue.  Thankfully the evening I wrote on this wall I received the long awaited email which had been sitting in lala land for a while. All I can say is thankfully I was patient and everything turned out fine.   Thanks for all the support!  I'm praying for a safe return of all our sailors..  I love them all and I'm so very proud of them.  

I sometime wonder if my son gets tired of reading the same thing over and over..  "We love you son and we are so very proud of you!!"  Haha--if he does he will never tell me. 

Comment by philly_mamasota on August 30, 2015 at 5:42pm

Webby2014 and Eaglefan enjoyed your posts and I'm sure that will be me soon. My son said "When you stop hearing from me, I'm underway." It could be any day, week now. This is what he trained for and he's excited. It will be harder on his fiancé because they speak every day but she's in med school so she will be busy. He's my buddy and we laugh at the same weird things but I'll be ok and count the days until I hear from him again. I bought a journal to write in every day he's gone so I don't forget to tell him something. Thanks for your encouragement to other sub moms.

Comment by Webby2014 on August 30, 2015 at 3:50pm
Missing him already. Left today after being home for a two week leave. It wad so nice to have him back in the house again. Hope to see him before he goes back out on patrol later in the year. Bought him a car to take back to the base. He was so happy to have a vehicle again. Hug them tight when you can and tell them how proud you are of them.
Comment by Nana Donna (nanaTo2Saliors) on August 30, 2015 at 12:31am

Rhonda yes you are correct Boomers do not have that kind of homecoming.  I have one grandson on a Fast Attack and one on a Boomer.  I never hear from my boomer grandson until he is back on land.   However I do get to email him while he is underway.

The grandson we welcomed home in San Diego it will be his last deployment as he will transfer to shore duty in the next several months.  Just a short underway to take the boat up to Washington for it's decommissioning.  Now both my grandsons will be together in Washington, they are super excited about that.

Comment by Eaglefan on August 29, 2015 at 11:51pm
Hi Phoebs, I'm pretty sure our sons are on the same boat. I haven't heard from mine in 5 weeks. I've been weepy right along with you;-)! This is my son's 3rd underway, and it has gotten easier, but I still have a hard time with the prolonged silence. Praying for our sons and their shipmates for a safe a speedy rest of their patrol!⚓️♥️
 
 
 

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