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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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Graduation Info
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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Japan Moms

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

Members: 688
Latest Activity: Apr 3

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 MAMA_C on May 8, 2016 at 5:46pm: Jesus in the boat if you sign up with the ship newsletter they report every port of call after they complete their tour. It is quite fascinating! My son ship is with the 7th Fleet.

Comment by Anti M on May 8, 2016 at 5:18pm: Jesus in the boat, have your sailor sign you up to get official info from the ombudsman. You can also Google the ship's page, and the ombudsman info should be listed. Still will need to verify who you are with your sailor.

Comment by Kim on May 8, 2016 at 3:43pm: You can follow navy times. The ship will probably be in the news about the past locations. Sometimes the current port stops. The 7th fleet usually post a lot of pictures on there. Read the OPSEC rules. It is for their protection that we cannot read where the ship is going.

Maggs, AntiM, and everyone else, you continue to be in my prayers. Great news Maggs.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! I received flowers from my two away sons and the other is visiting today. My sailor received orders....USS Roosevelt in San Diego.

Comment by 2tymeNavyMom on May 8, 2016 at 3:26pm: Jesusintheboat,
Usually 24 hours before they pull into port they are allowed to release that information. Otherwise no.

Comment by Jesusintheboat on May 8, 2016 at 1:53pm: Happy Mother's Day everyone.

I have a question -my son is going underway today is there ways to find out where his ship is or no??

Comment by Anti M on May 6, 2016 at 2:04pm: Maggs, so good to hear about the remission. Sending all the healing love I can.

Blondie, sending visions of happy pooping. Never take poop for granted!

Comment by Anti M on May 4, 2016 at 11:32am: Thank you Blondie, I am adjusting. But it really sucks (LOL, get it? hehe)

These winds come from the east, down the face of the mountains, known as downslope winds (canyon winds in local talk) and pack a punch. This time was a doozy. There is a house on the north end of the block, their cute little tree in front blew over, a big tree in back crunched the roof, and the tree in back next door took down the garage roof. They had just sold the house three days before. Wow. Here's your new home, huh?

I am glad you are catching up! Sorry about your BIL, best wishes to him. I am so familiar with bowel problems now ... although through all this, I go like clockwork. My gut just wants to stick to other organs and wander around where it doesn't belong.

Comment by Chris, Forever Ray's Proud Mom on May 3, 2016 at 12:49pm: Anti M, sorry to hear about the "purse", hope all is smooth sailing from here

Comment by Anti M on May 3, 2016 at 12:30pm: Thank you everyone. I had an infection, so they cleaned it out and put in a wound vac ... basically a vacuum sealed bandage. I get to carry around a little "purse" with a vacuum pump attached into my side, and have a visit from a home nurse every three days. One day and I am already tired of my little constant companion. Should be about a month.

We had a bad windstorm while I was in the hospital, wow. Winds up to 90 mph. Lots of power outages, and hundreds of down trees. I lost my pretty little garden arch to a falling branch. Our neighbors to the back and west had their trampoline fly over the house and onto a car. But our neighbors directly to the north had their trampoline blow over the fence ... into the yard of the neighbors whose trampoline went flying. LOL. Our south neighbors lost their shed and the entire power meter off the side of the house!! East neighbor got a crunched car trunk. But our beautiful new roof and gutters held up perfectly. We got very lucky.