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

**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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Lauren came in on the Amtrak through Ann Arbor. I placed a penny non the track for her before she arrived and when the train departed I found the squished penny and gave it to her to remind her of her first trip home,,,dumb, I know but I'm a mom and self entertained! We went out to eat a couple of nights we also had a birthday party for her 21st which was on Oct. 6, 09.

It was so nice to give her the royal treatment here at home with clothes and shampoos and lotions and perfumes she has not experienced for a long while. I am just so grateful to have been able to hug her and kiss her neck and tell her I love her so much. She took off kinda sad but she's okay. She did wake up yesterday with a swollen right eye and had to miss one day of class, they gave her an antibiotic to put as a gel in her eye but she was so afraid she would miss and not graduate on time or lower her average, how do you help them when they are so protected from us?

She needs a new prescription to get contacts which is why she got the eye thing, she wore the same one for too long. I told her to put on her glasses goo to class and do the best she can. She said the glasses are not her proper prescription so she cant see in them well. What can I do? I told her to make an apt with the ophthalmologist there. She said it takes too long and the only appointment times are during class time so its a lose/lose either way.........I don't know what to do. Any advice out there?????

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Comment by Sherry James on October 15, 2009 at 5:53pm
Hi Janice,

Wow, I love your blog post with all its detail especially the part about the penny on the train track. And I can really appreciate how special it was to be able to celebrate her 21st birthday at home with family and friends. Treasure these memories and hopefully you remembered to take a few photos too.

Boy I wished I had known that one as I would have done it for my son's trip home! Hey from one mom to another it was not dumb, just very sweet and loving parent thang...;>)
Comment by Janice on October 15, 2009 at 6:53pm
Thanks, I needed that! Sometimes I say things and I wonder if they sound silly but after raising 4 kids I have done some silly things for them and they always expect something out of me or I wouldn't be "mom." You made me smile and I thank you for that. : )

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