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
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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White Castles for Graduation?
One of our fellow moms - just pointed out they have White Castles in Chicago!! Do you think this might be considered a "really good meal" for our new sailors?!!
Seriously, we live in the South and it is a treat to go up north and have a White Castle! But what I'm really looking for is recommendations for eating out that weekend.
I hear Chicago Pizza is a must try...any others?
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Permalink Reply by Joyce Tucson Mom on
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Yea for you Diane:)!
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Wow diane
I just got off the phone with Colton
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Yes he has a projected graduation day, July 25th. He is finding out about A school grad for me.So I asked about his dream sheet, and he said they filled them out the first few days........ so what everbodys dream sheet ? you need to ask your kiddo's :)
Colton said you get to choose 3 places you want to be stationed, and 3 differnt kinds of ships you want to be on......here is Coltons in order
1) japan
2) virginia
3) florida
1) carrier
2) cruiser
3) destroyer
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Permalink Reply by diane {Shawns mom} on
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busy W~end..but great....spoke to my sailor alot...he is officially engaged......WhoooHOOOO..I love Heather like she is my own..he couldn't of made a better choice of who to spend his life with....
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yea, congrats to shawn -- pretty girl
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Thank you...
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Permalink Reply by snuffsmom on
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Okay, I am a brand new Navy Mom that needs some guidance on how to go about using this wonderful web-site.
My son has been in boot-camp for over two weeks now and all I have received is his personal belongings box and one Navy form letter.I am so anxious to hear from him. I thought he was going to get a call his second week on Sunday but no such luck. I have not received a letter from him personally and just can't understand why. I would really like to have more information on the time we are allowed with them at boot camp graduation. I am trying to make my travel arrangements. Can anyone help me out with this?
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Lemonelephant, thanks for directing her to all the new important sites that she will need. It is wonderful to make friends and look forward to meeting them at PIR. Brings back so many memories.
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Snuffsmoms, However did you find this 3 year old site??? We had so much fun writing it. We were just like you only it was 2008 when our son's were in bootcamp and the site had only been opened 2 months. We started together, and got to know each other pretty well. And we are still friends, even though some of our sons are out and some are still active. Search and you will find a forum called Molly Adopt a Sailor. That is the same Molly that was here. And today, her group just won $50,000 in a Pepsi contest yesterday to send to a Military hospital in Afganistan. Each month they adopt a group, Navy, Marine, Army and we went packages to them from Navy moms with love. Hope you find the site as happy as we did. Good luck to you
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Snuffsmom, Welcome to Navy4moms. Lynn and I met on this site while both of our sons were in A school together over 3 years ago and we still have a special friendship. I hope that you find the kind of friends that this site has brought into my life. I am still very close with about 20 moms that I met through this site 3 years ago. We even meet all over the USA for vacations and packing parties for deployed service members. Good luck to you and your sailor.
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