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 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.)

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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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US postal card site that is worth a look for cards to your Sailor!

I found this site to be the most fantastic way to send my son cards, postcards with pics from home on them. As well as thousands of regular cards for all occasions. I do a few at a time and pick the dates for them to be sent automatically in the US mail. I can include gift cards as well from this site. They have a large selection of military cards that are inspirational too. You type your own messages, and these are great quality. Cheaper than card stores, stamps and finding a mailbox each day. Makes it so easy to be sure my son gets a note from home each day, most I make from home pictures on the front. use it to send the coolest cards ever. Its sendoutcards.com. You can try one for free. Use distributor code 144388. Hope you like it as much as we did! If you have any questions let me know.

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Comment by Cheryl Ship 07 Div 160 on April 24, 2012 at 9:57am

Hi.  I would love to get the info from you.  Sounds like a great site.  Thanks

Comment by whitney on April 24, 2012 at 10:03am

its sendoutcards.com

if it asks you for an ID you can put in 144388.  I think its the coolest, most convenient way to keep a steady stream of mail flowing at a good price.  He loves the pics I upload and use as the front of the cards. Glad to share. Let me know if you have any problems or if I can help! :)

Nancy

Comment by Georgia on May 30, 2012 at 7:48am

Thanks for sharing!

Comment by Jeanette on June 1, 2012 at 5:33am

Hello Whitney, - this is Great info - would you provide more info to me please?  Jeanette in GA

Comment by whitney on June 12, 2012 at 10:09pm
It's just sendoutcards.com. Ignore any marketing sales pitch it has and just use it for sending cards or however you want. I just sent out our fathers day cards that had pics of my dad and me and one with my husband and his dad. It is just a cool site that I used for sending my son cards each day w pics he liked from home. Check it out and hope you like it as much as I did when my son went into basic. Code # 144388 is what you can put in. FYI I'm not doing this for any profit gain. I just loved that my friend shared it w me and so on... Enjoy. Good luck to your SR! Let me know if you need anything further.

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