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
Navy Speak
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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
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Still anxious but keeping the faith and staying positive...
The sperm donor dropped off letters today at my job and my job is strict so I would have had to wait to read them. I was a mess. They let me go in the ladies room and read them. He dropped them off crying and I was like "what?" He said it does not sound good. After getting home (I got a letter too)(im sure it's the last one) I felt pretty good after re-reading them. He got hurt again and said in his fathers' letter that he does not want to disappoint me or his dad and that he is going to try his best but did not know if he could and that he was sorry for that. (he injured his knee again but the right one this time) After going through the letter with the dates and time frame I figured out his had a root canal on Tuesday, which he was not concerned about and obviously everything went ok other than having to make up stuff that he missed. He also mentions that his final PFA would be today (Thursday) and he feared he would not pass it because his knee was just hurt and it was bothering him pretty bad. It is 9pm hear and "no news is good news" so I will go with that and assume he passed his last PFA today! God I hope so. He wrote some more things like how sorry he would be and feel if he did not graduate and that he would reimburse us the money we have put out already for accommodations! (how sweet that was and well it broke my heart in two). In my letter he put that he was glad I had all the info I would need for PIR and that I probably would not be getting one but that he put our 4 names down for guests at PIR. In my letter I could not be more proud! Crying half the night and not sleeping well and working a 9 hour stressful shift today......my letter put tears of joy. On top of him earning a 3rd class swimmer/a ribbon for sharp shooting and a ribbon for marlinspike in his division but the division got a scholar flag (doing well on the 1 st test) and an inspection flag for (overall score on the 1st inspection) they got a 4.95 highest being 5.0..He said he would get another Monday that just passed for (drill flag). and that they have a chance to have a score of 4.7 or higher that they we will be "hall of fame division" that is very hard to get but that they have a good chance of getting. He told me they took pictures in their dress uniforms. He does not think he is the best looking guy with short hair (he is a rocker like mom and always wore it long) but he said "it's hard to look bad in the uniform"! And them the "Big ONE"! he got ranked up from an E-1 to and E-2! and that he will have a patch on his arm during graduation with 2 stripes!!!!! All that being said/typed "no news is good news" and can not wait til BS are over and get the "I am a sailor call" which I am anticipating to be no longer than Tuesday of next week....One proud momma right now.....still worrying though....how could I not until this is all over and he is off to school in Groton!
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