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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

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**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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My boyfirend Kyle and I started dating about a year ago. We've known each other longer and were very close before we started dating. He left Sept. 21st for bootcamp. I am very proud of him and I love and miss him very much. For the past year we have been absolutley inseperable. We did everything together and I mean everything. We spent our entire senior year living it up. He'd take me to dinner, or the movies or concerts or dances. He'd do anything to make sure we were having a blast. I even got to go on Sring Break with him and his family. They're also very amazing. His parents raised to be a perfect young man. At the end of the summer he took me took Hilton Head, SC for one last hoorah before he left. It was the best week of my life with him. This has been so hard for me since he left. I really don't know what to do with myself. I feel kind of lost, lonely and out of place. I'm really hoping it gets easier. He always took care of me and was there all the time. He never let me pay for anything, or drive anywhere, he barely ever let me cook. I could literally take a step and he'd be there to make sure I didn't trip. We were always there for each other 24/7 and its hard adjusting. We are also young, were both only 18. I'm trying to keep myself busy with school, I'm attending Eastern Michigan University, but sometimes things just get to me and I can't help but cry. He really is my other half.

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Comment by Kyle's Wife on September 28, 2010 at 12:04pm: I'm trying. I'm at college so you'd think i'd be plenty busy but somehow I'm not. I started a calendar too. it's helping a little. It's just the adjustment. I'm also not close to home so i'm kinda dealing with it by myself and i can only go home on some weekends. I'm working on though one day at a time.

Comment by brooke(wife recruit) on October 1, 2010 at 3:11pm: My fiancee left on Sept. 13 and I think our story is very similar. We also spent my senior year together (he is a year older than me). But my fiancee and i didnt spend all day together so i guess it is easy for us to adjust alot had to do with all the student organizations i am involved in. Plus I'm a bio major so i spend alot of my time studying. I'm in Beta Beta Beta(academic fraternity), Code Blue (my college dance team), Concert Choir, Glee Club, study groups, peer tutoring, internship, City Year, Big Brother Big Sister. So just try to get more involved on campus it really helps and find someway to volunteer in the community. Big Brother Big Sister program is great. He is fine I promise and his is a great time to concentrate on you and making yourself a better person.

Comment by Kyle's Wife on October 1, 2010 at 8:18pm: i'm trying to stay busy. I just started working and my roomate makes me do everything with her so i don't sit in my dorm and mope...so it's getting better adjusting was the hard part. i just want his letters to come so i don't feel like he disappeared in thin air anymore!