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
Latest Activity
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
Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
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
Badge
Sailor left Aug 4th
Views: 180
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by desireenavygf (Ship 11 DIV 322) on
-
thanks ladies for the support and you are right it is def alot better speaking to people who are experiencing the same emotions i am. Most of friends say that i act like he died or something, but they dont understand how it is to be alone without that special person its not like i can pick up the phone and call him or text him. That just not possible and think they take that for granted in there relationships. I try to explain to them but no one gets it like you ladies do. This website is god sent and has help so much. I am leanring how to cope better i think it might get better when i get a letter but until then i still play the wait game :(
-
-
Permalink Reply by HoldFast86 (Ship 12 Div 325) on
-
That is true, my mother in love actually emailed me telling me to stop being so emo and be strong for my husband. Like I'm not worried that I'm not being strong enough for him as it is...I know she was just trying to tell me to keep my head up but the way she put it really wasn't the way I needed to hear it at that moment.
Yeah right now I would say the hardest part is just waiting for that first thing from him knowing he is okay and to get the address to start sending him things to reassure him that you are still there for him
-
-
Permalink Reply by Sailor's gf (Ship 10 Div 261) on
-
Just hang in there! My boyfriend's PIR is in 4 days and it literally feels like he left only a couple weeks ago. I am SO EXCITED! My heart just beats so fast when I think about seeing him again! It was so hard at first but writing letters a lot helps! And it also helped me that in the letters he wrote me he told me how much he loved everything about boot camp and that it was "fun as hell" to him! The letters really keep you going, I'm sure that your SR will shower you with as much love in your letters as mine did.
-
- ‹ Previous
- 1
- 2
- Next ›
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
