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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

**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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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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I am a christian mom doing the best I can do to raise my 11 year old daughter in a home that's fill with the love of God. My son, my pride and joy, is now serving his country and I am so very proud of him...one of my favorite sayings is ...
they will be able to say, that she stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way-and it surely has not-she adjusted her sails
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Was proud and encouraged it

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I GOT THE LETTER!!!

Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:05pm 3 Comments

OMG it's been such a beautiful day!! I walked delivering the mail in the beautiful 75 degree weather, not a cloud in the sky and wondered....wonder which of my co-workers has MY letter!!! When I got home and went to the mailbox, THERE IT WAS!!! His graduation is April 22nd and those four little lines at the bottom said "mom, i love you..." never were those words so needed to be heard lol...I'm so happy and proud of my sailor man ;)

ONE WEEK

Posted on February 28, 2011 at 9:31am 1 Comment

One week ago today, I woke with tears in my eyes KNOWING I would be taking my first born child, my son, the love of my life, to meet his recruiter to take him to NEW ORLEANS to go to boot camp on the 21st. I cried all day long that day. TODAY is a new day. I am so thankful for this site and for God giving me peace knowing this is all part of His plan for my son. He knew the plans He made for him even before he was born and in that I find comfort and peace. I taught my son right from wrong, took… Continue

30 SECONDS

Posted on February 27, 2011 at 7:24am 7 Comments

Ever sit in the dark with so much on your mind that if you had to write it all down  you  wouldn't know where to start? Well, that's where I am today. I woke up at 5 a.m. and decided to get out of bed because my mind wouldn't let me go back to sleep. "I wonder what he's doing right now? Did he have to eat breakfast in one minute,? What time did he go to sleep last night? Did he sleep good? When will I get the letter? Wonder what he looks like already? Is he ok??" The lists of questions that… Continue

The BOX

Posted on February 25, 2011 at 4:48pm 8 Comments

I came home from work today like any other day...went through the garage door, went out the front door to let the dog out and there it sat! On my step....the BOX.....I picked it up, looked at it, seen where it was from...turned it upside down, recognized the penmanship on the bottom of the box...my son's handwriting....his name on the box....OMG do i open it? Can I do it? I sat down on the porch swing and looked at it...will it smell like him? Will it make me cry? Will I be any use the rest of… Continue

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At 5:12pm on February 25, 2011, Dawn said…

Hello Gysmom,

I believe our boys started bootcamp on the same day! 2/22.

I saw that you received your box...<looking out the window> ....nope...nothing yet!! <grin>

Its comforting to know I am not alone!

Best wishes to you and your son.

At 7:10am on February 25, 2011, annafornavy said…
Hi There... : ) I love your pictures too... It looks like you and your son have a very special bond and love for one another.. : ) If you go to my page where the jukebox is there is a box that says download for free and you will be able to download it to your site... I still cry when I listen to the songs and look at the pictres of us together.. I realized that when he left for bootcamp that home would become a place he would visit. I could not get over that.. I cant wait to hear when you recieve your fist letter and call from your son.. IT IS THE JOY OF ALL JOYS!!! : )
At 9:55pm on February 24, 2011, SAwife11 said…
oh and he left from San Jose.
At 9:55pm on February 24, 2011, SAwife11 said…

Hi gysmom, 

 

So that you left a comment on freebird61 and that your son left feb. 22. my fiance left feb. 23 so i'm sure we will have the same PIR date. hope you are doing well. let me know when you get the box and form letter. He's supposed to send that stuff to me to but we shall see at the end if i get it or his parents. good luck with everything. 

 

SAwife11

At 8:40am on February 23, 2011, gysmom said…
‎12:51 A.M. - "MOM, I made it to Great Lakes, I'm at boot camp, be expecting a call in three weeks, they're shipping all my stuff home, but i love you, gotta go, bye"  that was the voicemail I got when I woke this morning lol..I'm so relieved he made it to bootcamp, at the same time I miss my baby, but am so very proud of him....such an emotional roller coaster huh? lol
At 9:03pm on February 22, 2011, Navy for Moms Admin said…

Welcome to Navy For Moms!

You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions.  Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!  

If you haven’t already, please make sure that you review our Community Guidelines to learn the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the community. Also, check out this Internet OPSEC Safety Video.


Enjoy your time here! I look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :) 

-Colleen

 
 
 

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