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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

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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).

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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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Another Patriot Guard Rider event

So instead of driving to Grinnell last night in the snow, my husband and I went to the QC Flames hockey game with the Patriot Guard Riders. The president of Marine Moms who is also a member of PGR didn't know that we were all in on a big surprise for her birthday. The PGR held flags in the arena aisles (we do this occasionally), the Marine color guard presented the colors. The PGR ride captain, the Marine Mom and I (as Navy Families rep) followed them in. A school group sang the anthem. Then they announced the birthday and the goalie presented her with flowers from her husband, and she got to drop the puck. We didn't stay till half time when they were going to surprise her further by splashing pictures of her packing boxes and doing other activities to support the troops on the big screens.

The QC Flames and the QC Steamwheelers are both teams that support the military in big ways!

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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on February 14, 2009 at 12:43pm: You are right, but you don't have to own a motorcycle. I own a "cage." That's anything on four wheels--it took me awhile to figure this out. Duh, I should have just asked. You don't have to have the vest either, but once you get involved, it's almost a given that you eventually own one. I used to wear a Navy t-shirt or something patriotic until we got the vests. Now it's fun to collect patches and pins.

The PGR was organized to shield the mourners from the wacko protesters at funerals. I've only done a few funerals, all for veterans, no protesters. They don't show up even though we've been warned they were coming a time or two for KIA funerals around here.

The first mission I went on was to welcome home a Marine, son of a friend of mine. When I saw all those guys on motorcycles, I thought, yikes, if I saw them and didn't know, I'd be sort of scared. Now, I know that if I ever had car trouble anywhere, they'd be the first ones I'd look for to help me.

They are the salt of the earth, patriotic, and spiritual no matter the appearance, and some are pretty rough looking! They are also a fun social group and so supportive of military families. Lots of the Marine Moms belong, too, and they were my support system long before Navy for Moms.

There's a picture of our Ride Captain sleeping at the airport during Christmas week on my page. He was there 24/7 along with whoever could be there to welcome home the hundreds of military that came through the arrival gate in Moline. That's really my favorite kind of mission--the welcomes. We get word from a family that a son or daughter is coming in, but we always catch a few more that we don't know about. They're welcomed first by the ride captain, then walk through the flag line and shake a lot of hands before they get to family.

We just got word that one of our hockey players was KIA in Afghanistan hitting an IED. We'll be involved with something even though he's not from here. Makes us count our blessings that Andy was hardly injured when he hit one.

Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on February 14, 2009 at 2:29pm: It's our honor "to stand for those who stand for us." I think I'm going to start a PGR Navy Moms group. I want everyone to know that they can be a part of this, too. No membership fee, no obligation except to do whatever you can do. It really has made a huge difference in our lives...