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Navy For Moms

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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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

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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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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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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Norfolk Sailors - Family & Friends

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For families and friends of Sailors who are stationed at Norfolk; for either Sea Duty or Shore Duty Sailors. Just make sure to keep OPSEC issues in mind and not disclose ship movements in advance.

Weather - Norfolk

Members: 1314
Latest Activity: on Monday

RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:

In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.

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Comment by Colleen in PA on July 7, 2016 at 12:52pm: Just an fyi on care packages, items are exposed to extreme heat (they can sit on the deck awhile)and food can melt! My son is on a carrier and I sent him gummy bears, he got a gummy "blob"! He said it still tasted good.

Comment by John and Yvonne on July 2, 2016 at 11:45am: And by the way, welcome to this group! :)

Yvonne and John

Comment by John and Yvonne on July 2, 2016 at 11:41am: Rach_Bre,

Are you helping your daughter look or will you both be living here?

Yvonne

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 1, 2016 at 1:32am: Weloome Rach_Bre! USS Bataan is awesome, congrats to your daughter. Call Kerry Tanner, she's with Abrams Realty, 757-831-9266.

Comment by Rach_Bre on July 1, 2016 at 12:13am: My daughter is going to be stationed in Norfolk VA. on the Bataan Ship. can you recommend a good rental agency? it will be me and her looking for nice 2 or 3 bedroom

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on June 29, 2016 at 11:40pm: So glad you heard from your sailor!!

Yvonne, your birthday care package idea rocks! I copied and added it to this group. If you're not a member there, you should be! http://navyformoms.com/group/carepackageideas

Comment by SeasonedMom on June 29, 2016 at 10:16pm: Thank you so much everyone. My son has already left, but weirdly enough, he commented on something I posted on FB today. He must have had a few free moments. I sent him a FB message about the phone cards. If he buys one on board, we can add money to it once we receive the pin numbers. I will update in case anyone else has this issue. I don't expect him to get to a port anytime soon, although he has only been gone since Saturday and said on FB that they had been replenished already. I joked that they were probably out of beer!

Comment by TJCsMom on June 29, 2016 at 2:50pm: I didn't understand if he is currently deployed or about to be deployed. If he is currently deployed, have him check in the Ship Store. My son said they restocked the store each time they received replenishments, but they ran out quickly, with everyone onboard waiting for them to come in. He kept an extra one in his wallet. When one would run out, I'd call AT&T and reload it, but he always had one ready to use. You can add as much money as you want to them, but they sell them with $20 on them. Hope this helps!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on June 29, 2016 at 2:46pm: Yay TJC'sMom! I have no idea why neither the NEX nor AT&T have them available to purchase online. I've been round and round on this one with calls to each. Frustrating. I hope SeasonedMom's son can purchase them on his ship. Or she lives near a base (unlikely for most of us).

Comment by TJCsMom on June 29, 2016 at 2:40pm: My son just returned from a deployment and he purchased his AT&T Ship-to-Shore calling cards in the Ship Store, onboard. These cards are reloadable. If your sailor can, he should buy 2, they are $20 each. That way, when one runs out, he'll have a backup until he (or you) can add more money to the other one. He just needs to give you the numbers on the card. There is a card number, a PIN number and the 1-800 number for you to call. This is what we did while my son was deployed and it worked really well. Best advise would be to go on a purchase the cards now, rather than waiting until he has to have them, because the ship and/or NEX will run out of them quickly, if a deployment is about to happen.