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:
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:
**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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Kids in Bootcamp
My son has been in the Navy three years now. He is my oldest son and joined the Navy in 2008. He left for boot camp right after he graduated from high school. I had a very difficult time when he left- I cried a lot. In boot camp you do not hear much from them- your only option is to write letters. They say they can call once in a while, but really they don't. It is a big shock for them too. It is going to be very different than they expected. The best thing you can do is just write them, encourage them, that will help encourage you too! They usually get to write letters on Sundays, but it takes about 10 days for them to get their letters. It gets much better once they graduate from boot camp. When they go to A school, they can call and use their cell phones at that point. Stay strong, keep telling your son or daughter you love them in the letters- that will help them get through boot camp.
My son just got back from his 6 month deployment- and I have to tell you, the deployment was not as trying as boot camp was. So stay strong, write lots of letters. Be sure to go to his graduation. He will need to see family by then and the graduation is awesome!
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Comment by bethberan on August 25, 2011 at 3:31pm
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We just got our first letter from our son and it is evident that the "culture shock" is strong! We're writing him almost everyday! thank you for your post, definitely helps to know what is "normal"! Good luck to your sailor!!
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Comment by Pebbles60 on August 25, 2011 at 10:02pm
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My son left yesterday for bootcamp. I miss him so much. Any advice?
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How far into bootcamp can they write?
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You probably won't get a letter from him for at least a two or three of weeks, but I would start writing him letters now, because it takes at least 10 days for them to get their mail. Bootcamp is the hardest. This is really where they get them acclimated into millitary mode- so they break them down and build them back up, and they keep communication to a minimal because of that. I can't tell you how to stop missing your son because you never really stop missing them even 3 years into it. Stay busy, stay positive, just remember they are doing a really good thing for our country. I can tell you that each time my son comes home for leave, I try to make the most of that time, and when he leaves it is still no easier. It takes a special kind of person to do what they do. Military life is different and it takes sometime to get use to all the processes. Make sure to communicate with them any way you can and as often as you can. We did not actually get a phone call from our son until the Friday before Graduation and he had " 10" minutes.
When our son went on deployment- we added Skype, and also added Overseas texting and Calls to our cellphones and he would call us when they went to port. Email is good too. The Navy will give them an email address to them in the future and you can use that to communicate as well. Hang tough- it get much easier and better for you and your son after bootcamp. The next level of your sons service is way better that this part. He will get through it and so will you!
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