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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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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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Japan Moms

For all the Moms(and Dads) with a Sailor in Japan

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Latest Activity: Mar 13

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!

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Comment by Anti M on October 5, 2015 at 8:41am

@pizzamom ... donating to the USO is very simple.  I give when I  can, usually a small monthly donation.  We need a new roof, so maybe not this year.  As a retiree dependent, I can still use the USO myself, although I haven't recently.  I sure did when I was active duty!  If I could volunteer at one locally, I would.

https://secure.uso.org/OM_NEX/?sc=WS15PSGGBR&utm_source=google&...

Comment by Cheryl-TedsMom on October 5, 2015 at 6:46am

Haven't been been on-board for a while but finally came up for air. Co-chaired our local Historical Museum's 10th Birthday yesterday. 70-80 in attendance. Not bad for a Town with a pop. of 5,000. Here I am taking a short break with my new buddy Burton. [Owen is sitting next to me holding the reins pretending to be in charge]

Comment by pizzamom on October 4, 2015 at 11:10pm

Thanks Anti M We are being very careful and manage our bill on line.He is super cautious on all devices.And a wonderful ideal to donate to the USO he is so layed back he never wants us to send gifts from home.Can you please post the address where to send donations.I always feel we as a family don't do enough for our service members.

Comment by Anti M on October 4, 2015 at 8:12am

The USO is great.  I can't send many gifts to my sailor on a sub, so I donate to the USO as a gift.  They rely on private donations to offer services, they are not a government agency.

Comment by Anti M on October 4, 2015 at 8:05am

pizzamom, tell him to be careful of using his stateside phone.  Even though he is texting, not calling, there can be roaming charges, high ones.  One kid used his phone for music while deployed and got smacked with a four figure phone bill. 

Comment by pizzamom on October 4, 2015 at 4:51am

In my case my son has been there 3weeks now and has been calling me from the USO for free.He says when out site seeing he stops in and calls.He has had free wifi on his ship and has emailed with his phone he took with him.

Comment by 2tymeNavyMom on October 1, 2015 at 4:03pm

We do the same as Drew7062 says...use the "Line" app for calls and sometimes it is easier to text/message my son on Facebook Messenger.

Comment by DREW7062 on September 30, 2015 at 9:05pm
Hey everyone, my son is in Yokosuka Japan and he calls very rarely says it costs him 100 yen a minute lol I said what the hell is YEN Laughing. But anyway, does anyone know a way he can call where he doesn't have to spend 100 yen a minute. Also, he has some cheap cell phone he purchased over there, although he still has his I phone 6 I bought for him here in the states he took to Japan. Someone said he can text, call home, FaceTime, etc. for virtually nothing but he dissent know what to do. Does anyone know if there's an App he and I can download.HELP! someone mentioned LINE but he says it's not working....
Thanks
Comment by T-Lynn on September 30, 2015 at 8:48pm

HI

Well this site is jumping. Nice to see teh new moms "jumping into teh water" - aka - talking and sharing. .

Nice to see you are back to your bussy bee self Blondie. And miracles do happen - so Angel actually step up to the plate.

Between babysitting and trying to finish details for a camp out - I fell off the earth. Luckily my safety harness was on so I could get back on here. the last night I was texted - the camp out was canceled. Not enough boys signed up. And this time the camp out was totally ready with activities - 2 troops helping and good weather predicted. I even had all the thank you gifts made. I still plan on giving the items to the troops and persons - the camp was ready to go.

I got so busy with home and camp out - I forgot to wish Kim a Happy Birthday. I sure hope you had a great one adn that you celebrated for 7 days. Check in and share all the fun.

 Talking about fun - Anti M - any stories and pics to share about the Burn?

And did anyone get to see that Super Full Moon adn the eclipse? We had total cloud cover. I was so bumped.

I just thought of Maggs. She takes great pics - hey Maggs did you get any pics of teh Super/Eclipse Moon?

We;, I need to split all. Wish all great week. hugs

Comment by Elaine-PIR 10/1/10 on September 28, 2015 at 8:19am

Blondie, thanks so much for the update on Nick. He has been in my prayers all this time. Since they are no longer updating his progress, I have often wondered how he was doing. He looks great in this picture.

Anti M, even back then they did amazing things to save lives. I was there for 11 days and every morning I had to have a chest X-ray. The techs would apologize for having to wake me up and gather up all my equipment to get me down to X-ray. So glad you survived as you are a wealth of information for all the newbies on here. I hope you are feeling better.

 

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