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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

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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy Speak

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Navy.com Para Familias

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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 Anti M on September 24, 2016 at 8:28am: Sasebo is a great base, smaller than Yokosuka. Why is he bummed? True, the operating tempo of ships there is pretty high, they do stay at sea a lot, but Japan itself is very enjoyable. Three years is not an eternity.

Comment by Classycalicat on September 23, 2016 at 10:50pm: Blondie, any word about what is going on? Asking for prayers sounds like something scary is going on.......... : (

Comment by Momship12 on September 23, 2016 at 8:29pm: Sasebo?......
Son just finishing A school in Pensacola
Got soft orders for sea duty in Sasebo ?
Any info good or bad he is bummed out out it
Do they change ? 3 years sounds like a long time

Comment by ellen0502 on September 22, 2016 at 4:20am: I always sent my son an "at sea" care package when he was home, so it was ready for when he left.

It included water flavorings, a deck of cards (they didn't always make it back), or a card game like UNO, a toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, trail mix, cliff bars, already shelled (a must be) nuts, hard candies, and battle rolls.

For those who don't know what a battle roll is, it is toilet paper. I would buy either camper toilet paper, or travel toilet paper, the kind that doesn't have the core. I know an interesting thing to send, but he always said there was "nothing worse than going to the head on ship only to find the toilet paper was empty,". It isn't that they ran out, it was just that had not yet been replenished. :)

Comment by Anti M on September 19, 2016 at 8:56am: One idea for care packages ... little bottles or packets of hot sauce, powdered drink packets. Chocolate is okay once the weather cools. Instant noodles, tuna packs, beef jerky. More salty than sweet, there's lot of candy onboard a ship and in Japan.

Pack everything into ziploc bags, and do not pack food and scented items like deoderant in the same box.

Comment by Anti M on September 19, 2016 at 8:53am: @Wheatonpup ... google the ombudsman or chaplain for your son's ship, see if they can give you the address or if they can lea on him to contact you. The FPO address for each ship is publicly posted, you just won;t have his department/division. He should get mail without that ...

http://www.uscs.org/cover-collecting/about-collecting-naval-covers/...

Comment by 2tymeNavyMom on September 18, 2016 at 11:24pm: Navy Lodge was hard to get into when we were planning our trip to Yokosuka. Sailors transitioning home ou to their next duty station tend to fill the Navy Lodge up. Have your sailor try to make the reservation as soon as you know when you want to go, you never know.
Have fun it's a beautiful country.

Comment by Wheatonpup on September 18, 2016 at 8:38pm: Dutchess, A friend of mine whose husband has been deployed many times told me that there are many great ideas on Pinterest. Put in care packages for Navy Deployment or Military Care Package ideas. Lots of fun stuff... Now if my son would only get in touch.... sigh...

Comment by Dutchess on September 18, 2016 at 8:17pm: My daughter has been in Japan for 3 weeks now. She is hinting about a care package. I am new to this and am wondering what kind of things are good to send overseas. I want to send her some things for Halloween. I know that sending chocolate may not be good but what else could I send?

Comment by Momof2 on September 18, 2016 at 11:11am: My son goes to sasebo in late October. My question if we wanted to go visit him say next summer, are we allowed to stay in the Navy Lodge like we did in Great Lakes for boot camp graduation? Just trying to figure out how much money I will need to save and how much stuff I will need to sell to be able to go thanks so much for any advice.