This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
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:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
N4M Merchandise
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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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My Army Son
Each of my son's were a part of me.. but with my Army son our connection is so strong and unbreakable; regardless of the trying times we went through in his teen years...
4 years ago my new husband and I feared the worse for him.. his sophomore year in high school he was a champion wrestler.. He was in college prep classes and a straight A student.. he appeared to have the world in the palm of his hand and I knew he could do anything he dreamed.. Then out of nowhere and it seamed over-night our life got turned upside down when I discovered my son suddenly stopped going to school and was a full blown drug addict... What happened?? How did this happen?? How did I miss the signs??..........Not my son.. not my all American boy!!!
If you asked me 3 1/2 years ago what do I see for this young man, I would have told you I was mentally preparing to burying him..
After a great amount of turmoil in our home, I spoke with a doctor who worked with addiction who advised me to toughen up.. Forget the boy he was.. that kid is gone and see the young man he is now and tell him to leave my house if he’s not going to get help.
So with my new husbands support I asked him to leave and for the next year we did the roller coaster of him saying he wanted help.. me helping.. only to find out he was using again and asking him to leave.. Then a few months after my son moved back to Illinois he called and asked me if he could come home.. he was sick of the life he had been living and wanted to get it together.
This was my crossroad in my life, my moment of truth.. do I let him come home only to go through all of this again?? or do I allow him back but with a line in the sand and understanding what will happen if he crosses it.. So he came home.. and with in 2 days he was in GED classes and within 2 months he took his GED test.. the next month was excruciating for us.. but good news came in a large manila envelope that contained his GED scores.. HE PASSED!! And 2 months later he was off to basic training.. Fulfilling his dream..
I watch this young man who fought so hard to pull his life together walk away and head back to war… it was a biter sweet moment filled with pride… My heart, my little boy had grown into a wonderful man who knew who he was and where he was going with life.. no longer drifting, no longer scared.. but strong and confident.. and as he walked through security he turned to look at me and held up 3 fingers.. “I Love You”.. and I raised my 4 “I love you too”
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