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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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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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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Great Lakes A School Q&A

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The purpose of this group is to allow family of new sailors assigned to school at Training Support Center Great Lakes a chance to voice questions to a Student Division Commander

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 2332
Latest Activity: Mar 12

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Comment by Phoenixmom on May 7, 2018 at 9:48pm: Hi Alison, did you see it? OMG, it was such a very neat thing to see, I couldn't help the tears it was so heart warming watching all the families greeting their lives ones. My Son messaged me when he was off the Carrier and sent a picture. I believe he is on his way home. Can't wait to see and hug him. Baby is very cute and so alert. Thank you for asking.

Comment by Alison❤️⚓️ on May 7, 2018 at 8:31pm: Hi Pheonixmom, omg that video is so cool to see!! I hope you get a glimpse!! Enjoy your time with him!!! Also I read the baby and your daughter are all doing well so glad to hear, he must be beautiful in person...

Comment by Phoenixmom on May 7, 2018 at 12:28pm: Hoping to see if I get a glimpse of my Son, He's Back!

Comment by Phoenixmom on May 7, 2018 at 12:27pm: Dont know if anyone is interested but they are showing the arrival of the ships and Carrier that just got in to San Diego.

http://sundiegolive.com/

http://fox5sandiego.com/

Comment by Butterball on May 3, 2018 at 1:02pm: Just another idea, if you simply must send frosted cupcakes, put the frosting on the inside before baking. Don't over stuff them, but they do ship well that way. We call them inside out cupcakes.

Comment by Butterball on May 3, 2018 at 1:00pm: If allowed to send baked goods, cookies packed in Pringles cans works great too.

Comment by Anti M on May 3, 2018 at 10:10am: Baked goods are allowed, but some of the barracks have stricter rules about unsealed food. The rules also change often. You'll have to ask your sailor what their barracks rules are. Pack everything well, in hard plastic containers, and pack the box tightly (less movement means less crumbling). Cookies, brownies, and candies which do not melt are best options. Cakes such as pound cakes or fruit breads hold up well. Frosted cupcakes are a big no. The package goes to the mailroom, so be sure your sending things which will not spoil or mold or melt. This is good practice for sending care packages to deployed ships!

Comment by iqdmum on May 3, 2018 at 10:01am: Ladies, I have used Bake Me A Wish for my College sons. They says the cakes and brownies are delicious. However I do not know the rules and regs for Navy. I would love to send my SR something for his B'day.

Comment by Bandmom on May 3, 2018 at 9:08am: I sent my son cookies while he was in A-School at Great Lakes. I actually had 2 dozen in ziploc bags. I packed them in Popcorn. The mail room wanted the popcorn. My sailor said you could smell the popcorn through the box.. He was pleasantly surprised to find the hidden cookies. Only 2 were broken!

Comment by Allison on May 3, 2018 at 4:21am: Check with your individual sailors and the rules in their barracks, but I think their only concern is spoilage. If you vacuum sealed goods or ordered them locally for delivery, I don’t think that’d be a problem. I used to bring tons of food into the barracks kitchen, I’d bring cupcakes/cookies to the galley, and a lot of wives also made extra cash taking orders from sailors for food/baked goods, but that was 2 years ago, and things are always changing at Great Lakes.