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:
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
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New To The Navy Life
I am so new to this life that some days all I can do is cry. My sailor starts boot camp in December. I guess I am just so frustrated because I know nothing and I am not sure where to begin. That, and we are both only 18. We're still kids. Yet here we are getting married in October and preparing for a life of moving and waiting. On top of that, I have to balance college.
My sailor didn't tell me he was considering the Navy until we were already engaged. All I did that whole day was cry and cry and cry. Now I've come to terms with it, but I am the type of person who needs to know what is going on and be ahead of the game and plan. But the recruiter isn't very helpful and neither is my sailor. Everyone keeps saying spend as much time together as you can before he leaves, but we can't because he works second shift and it's about an 8 1/2 hour shift five to six days of the week. He's always gone, so spending time together is hard. I appreciate what he does for me, but it scares me more and more to be without him.
Sorry to put my business out there, but I've been needing to vent so much and what I wrote isn't even the half of my stress. I just hope things get better before I go crazy.
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Comment by char2008 on August 6, 2012 at 9:11pm
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I understand what you're going through. At least though, when you're married to your sailor, everyone is nice and respectful to you. Currently, mine is in A school in virginia. I did not get to go to his graduation, only his family did. At least you will have notifications from his recruiter and stuff. Girlfriends of SR's care about their sailors like crazy people, but are the lowest of the low on the chain. But mine did write. And I'm thankful for that. I can only hope that he pops the question when he gets home in january.
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