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

**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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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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April 18th, One Year Anniversary of PIR 4/18/2008.

For all the women and their families I met at the PIR 4/18/08, I am reminiscing about the graduation and the great friends my husband and I made. Lifetime friends, and through all the joy, sadness, tragedies, and heartache, and pride, we have been there for each other, and I can never thank everyone enough. We've held each other up, sustained each other, reinforced our beliefs, learned acronyms, played games, talked about our hobbies (to the point of distraction), and researched together to learn more about the Navy way of life. I could not ask for a more honorable group of friends. Honest, decent, nurturing women that have put everything aside to be of assistance, to make life easier, and rallied around whomever needed it. The comfort they (and sometimes their families) provided was invaluable and selfless.

Some are hilarious, wise, talented, faithful. Some are consoling and reassuring! Some are able to calm and relax, while others press for immediate action and their experience shows the way for quick results. The acts of love will never go unnoticed and will never be forgotten. Their accomplishments boggle my mind as I struggle to get through some days. Just when I get through a month or two without melancholy, along comes a holiday or you see someone in uniform and can't control your emotions. How many of those in our families do not understand us like our Navy mom friends?

All are dear to me. The education and information is boundless. Knowledge is the key to understanding what our children and fellow military families go through. The support, and shared trials and tribulations, amongst those who share having our children in the Navy, has been the reinforcement that our children stand tall with great moral character.
Many of our grandfathers were in war torn Europe. Mine was in France. They would say "stand straight, stand tall".
Admiral Halsey said, "Steady nerves, stout hearts". I bust with pride when I think of my son Patrick and his lifestyle, his decision to join the Navy. Yes, when I first found out, I was hysterical. Not because he joined the military, but because he was supposed to stay home and go to college. I would be able to hang on to him a little longer. Letting go is a term loosely used by women here who have already let go. It is a process. Never let anyone tell you you need to let go. It is on yours and Gods time scale, not theirs. For everyone who took care of my only child, you are a Godsend. I will never forget you or my Navy mom friends. And to those who started at the same time with us at Graduation - congratulations, we made it a whole year!!!

http://www.navyformoms.com/video/1971797:Video:227023

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Comment by CCR on April 20, 2009 at 1:17am
Thanks Jackie. C. - I got it, but my plan doesn't have txt.
Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on April 22, 2009 at 3:01pm
Well, I wasn't there on the 18th but I should have been!! LOL At least in the process, I met you and Jackie and for that I will always be thankful. There is a reason why our sons decided to join the Navy...so we could all become GREAT friends!!!
Comment by CCR on April 24, 2009 at 11:53am
It does seem that way, we all say so casually "there is a reason for everything that happens" but this just proves it!

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