This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

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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Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms!  (Hint:  When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

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Navy.com Para Familias

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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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

THE BOTTOM OF THE COLUMN

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New to this life?  SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW NAVY MOMS

Need an Ombudsman?  OMBUDSMAN REGISTRY

Discussion Forum

Roll Call: Name your sailor's sub!

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Personal Storage on Fast Attack Subs

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Personal Storage on Fast Attack Subs

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submarine visits to foreign ports

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Comment by tina41 on July 4, 2016 at 12:29pm

hello all!! 

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY TO ONE AND ALL!!!

Comment by John and Yvonne on July 1, 2016 at 7:18am

To all you moms out there.....just a little word to the wise.....when you send mail to your sons(or daughters) remember to number them on the envelope. That way they will read them in order. The worse thing they can read is something like this: Well, Dad is feeling much better now...before they read about him being sick.  :) 

Yvonne and John

Comment by philly_mamasota on June 30, 2016 at 9:16pm

Great news!! My son's sub is turning for home! No more 50-word Family Grams! Can go back to e-mails again! They are planning for the homecoming but we won't be able to be there due to the distance & short notice we will receive. I'll be happy with a FaceTime phone call. Looking forward to hearing from him. This was hard but I made it thru it. I don't know how wives with children do it. I've been praying for them the whole time they were underway.

Comment by MaryBeth on June 30, 2016 at 9:02am

Hi everyone...congrats to your sailors. My son is assigned to the USS Columbia. He is on his first deployment. I'm anxious to hear from him and what the experience was like. I know he won't be able to tell me classified things but I'm ok with that. I grew up a navy brat and am familiar. Although it's quite different emotions when it's your son.  

Comment by tina41 on June 30, 2016 at 8:46am

hello all!!

congrats to all who have sailors joining their boats!

good luck and God bless to the sailors as they start another navy adventure!!

Comment by ITgal on June 29, 2016 at 9:36pm

WearsLargeHats - My son's been on the Bremerton for a little over a year.  He's been very happy.  There's a Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Bremertonfrg/

Comment by WearsLargeHats on June 29, 2016 at 8:07pm

My son is joining the crew of the"Bad Fish", USS Bremerton.

Comment by connectwithnavy on June 29, 2016 at 4:48pm

My grandson just got his assignment, USS Kentucky, gold.  An emotional day.

Comment by TJ Proudnavymom on June 29, 2016 at 4:23pm

Welp, my sailor just got his assignment, USS Rhode Island, blue. Looks like he's calling the east coast home for a while.

Comment by Kevsmom93 on June 28, 2016 at 11:56pm

Good job WearsLargeHats, my husband says "spoken like a true Dad." Prayers to your son for a safe journey.   We all miss our son's but have the utmost confidence in them and their duties in the Navy. As I'd like to add,  they would all want and expect us to. 

bonnieb75; You are going to be fine, hang in there and know that you will hear from your son when he can safely contact you. Most of us have humbled ourselves at one time or another on this forum with our concerns. Have some quiet prayer time and ask for reassurance and strength, I know it always helps me :-D

 
 
 

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