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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Comment by M's mom on December 8, 2016 at 8:49pm: Anna,

Did you ever make it to Whidbey Island? Hope you have found someplace warm to spend the winter. We are in the midst of a "polar vortex" here in Indiana now. Brrrrr

Comment by M's mom on December 8, 2016 at 8:43pm: BunkerQB,

Congrats to your son and his post-Navy success! I'm sure all of our sailors will find that "Navy officer" looks very impressive on a resume for post-military jobs as your son found, especially with his nuke experience. My LT son is talking about making a career of the Navy, if he's able. He is in intelligence and currently stationed in Japan, and loves his job and where he lives. Of course, future jobs/deployments could change his mind!

I LOL'd at your comment about not yet able to sit and eat bon bons and knit all day!!! I won't be retiring early either because our current health insurance is through hubby's employment, and since he's 65, he wants to retire next year and will go on Medicare. I'm self-employed and "only" 60, so I'll have to buy my own insurance for 5 years! Current quotes are over $10,000 per year plus a high deductible, just for me! No bon bons and knitting for me just yet either! That's what I get for marrying an old man! haha

Comment by Anna on December 7, 2016 at 12:34am: MaryJeanette,

Not that I'm aware of. Have you tried doing a search in the groups tab and see if something comes up?

Comment by Anna on December 7, 2016 at 12:33am: BunkerQB,

Good to hear from you!!!!! Congrats to your son!!!

Comment by BunkerQB on December 6, 2016 at 2:45pm: Dear Nuke Moms & Dads,

It seems like yesterday that my son graduated from OCS but in fact it was in 2007.

My former Navy boy is now 32 years old and has been out of the Navy since 2012. He got hired by one of the big three tech companies in North CA last year. He is their subject matter expert on electrical systems for data centers. He has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and of course tons of applicable work experience. He is compensated handsomely to solve problems that no one else can solve. Sorry I can't explain it better but we just know it's great job security for the next few decades. He is happily married (wife, house, dog - the whole enchilada). This is his third job. With each one, his experience as a former Navy nuke was very very beneficial. Invariably, he would run into a former nuke guy doing the interview - he would then be fast tracked.
I thought I would be retired, eating bon bons and knitting all day. Still working - as busy as ever

Regards, BunkerQB.

Comment by Rose on December 5, 2016 at 12:29am: For anyone thinking of Christmas gifts for their LOs: anticipating upcoming workups from the ship, last Christmas time I gave my DS a pure beech jersey knit twin extra long sheet set & pillow/mattress protectors (from BB&B). He has had several chances to make use of them (along with the memory foam mattress top that he bought). Just recently he asked where I got the sheets so he could get an additional set of sheets. "So comfy!," he said. Made this Mom's heart happy to think that at the end of a mission, her DS could be cozily tucked in for a good night's rest before the next venture out.

Comment by Noni on November 20, 2016 at 1:21pm: Doreen,
My daughter was also thrown into the same situation when she came aboard her ship. It will all work out in the end. She finally loved her job. As Ensign your child will move around the ship until he finishes his SWO program. That will be about 18 months if all works out well. My daughter is now a LTJG. She will be leaving her first ship to a new ship in January. Doing a job that still is not a EDO. Hang in there! Life is good and will get better.

Comment by Anna on October 26, 2016 at 12:12am: M's mom,

Thank you for your kind words!! My daughter just made LT as well!!! Congrats to your son!!

Comment by M's mom on October 25, 2016 at 10:11pm: Doreen: Anna gave excellent advice, and I will ditto it. My son is now a LT, and he said the smartest thing he learned from a senior officer is to respect the knowledge of the Senior Chiefs about what has worked and what hasn't in that department previously. The Chiefs usually have years more experience, and a wise junior officer will ask for their insight before making major decisions.

Comment by Doreen on October 25, 2016 at 12:31pm: Anna - thank you for the advice! I just heard from my son. The Senior Chief told him that a new Ensign should never have been put in his position and there is an LT coming on ship soon to head the department. I am a manager in the civilian world and his situation raised numerous questions in my mind but I am glad my son will now get some help. Thank you so much!!