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:
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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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
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The Beginning
Hello All!
So I'm definitely new to this site, new to this lifestyle.
I decided to start this blog on N4M to put myself out there a little more on the site,be more active in it, and hopefully help/share experiences with someone that is going through the same thing that I am.
As of right now, I'm engaged to my sailor whose at NWS Charleston, and I'm living in Georgia. This is my first "long-distance" relationship, but I'm proud of how well we have done this far, and it only makes me feel better about our ability to handle the deployments in the future. Being near Ft. Gordon, GA, I've seen a lot of girls get into relationships with military men just to get away from our area, and typically that ends in a divorce in about 2 years and they end up back where they started anyways, so that's one of my underlying fears; rushing into anything, which brings me to this:
So far, I've learned that the Navy is pretty much "hurry up and wait."
We have a "plan", but we also know that his job can change that plan in a split second. It's kind of scary, having to wait on the Navy's decision as to how certain parts of your life will be. For instance, from where my sailor is at now, he can either go to NY or stay where he is for his 3rd leg of schooling. If he goes to NY, I can't go with him as neither of us can afford it, unless we are married, which will be rushing into things. If he stays where he is now, I plan on moving up there with him before we get married, since we only see each other pretty much every other weekend, we don't know each other as much as we feel we should to get married just yet, and neither of us believe in divorce unless it's extreme circumstances, and that's rare nowadays, as many couples (especially military) end in divorce.
This is my first post in a string of many to come, hopefully. I know that it probably was not much help to anyone, but I live life with this philosophy: If I have helped just one person, then I am accomplished.
<3
So I'm definitely new to this site, new to this lifestyle.
I decided to start this blog on N4M to put myself out there a little more on the site,be more active in it, and hopefully help/share experiences with someone that is going through the same thing that I am.
As of right now, I'm engaged to my sailor whose at NWS Charleston, and I'm living in Georgia. This is my first "long-distance" relationship, but I'm proud of how well we have done this far, and it only makes me feel better about our ability to handle the deployments in the future. Being near Ft. Gordon, GA, I've seen a lot of girls get into relationships with military men just to get away from our area, and typically that ends in a divorce in about 2 years and they end up back where they started anyways, so that's one of my underlying fears; rushing into anything, which brings me to this:
So far, I've learned that the Navy is pretty much "hurry up and wait."
We have a "plan", but we also know that his job can change that plan in a split second. It's kind of scary, having to wait on the Navy's decision as to how certain parts of your life will be. For instance, from where my sailor is at now, he can either go to NY or stay where he is for his 3rd leg of schooling. If he goes to NY, I can't go with him as neither of us can afford it, unless we are married, which will be rushing into things. If he stays where he is now, I plan on moving up there with him before we get married, since we only see each other pretty much every other weekend, we don't know each other as much as we feel we should to get married just yet, and neither of us believe in divorce unless it's extreme circumstances, and that's rare nowadays, as many couples (especially military) end in divorce.
This is my first post in a string of many to come, hopefully. I know that it probably was not much help to anyone, but I live life with this philosophy: If I have helped just one person, then I am accomplished.
<3
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on November 29, 2010 at 12:10pm
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I think so far you are doing great :-). It is wise to not be in a hurry. Take your time and get to know each other. I worry so much about my own daughter who I feel rushed into her marriage simply because she and her (now) hubby didn't want to be apart. She only knew him 1 month before she left for bootcamp. He proposed right after bootcamp and 2 months later they were married. 4 days after that he left for bootcamp. I hope and pray they are right for each other and that they have a healthy and happy marriage. Good luck to you. :-)
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Comment by jehmke on November 30, 2010 at 12:01am
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Thanks, everyone!
And @DA BUSCH!, I know a lot about the Navy from the Wife/Fiance/Girlfriend standpoint because one of my best friends was married to a sailor, and they're currently going through a divorce. I just observed and learned what will and won't work from their marriage, and if I have questions I have a few military wife friends I can go to. I think that's very important, especially with the separations that come with the military lifestyle.I tend to sit back and observe, and learn from other's mistakes and triumphs.
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**Correction: I don't know a lot, but what I do know...lol
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