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.
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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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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A Blue Candle Event ♥
Event Details
Time: December 4, 2019 to December 3, 2020
Location: Anytime, Anywhere, Any Home or Office
Event Type: family, event, celebration, reunion
Organized By: A Blue Candle Event Group - Alicia from Texas
Latest Activity: Nov 5, 2020
Event Description
When you're missing your Sailor -- Light a Blue Candle!
A wonderful way to honor Sailors Anytime, Anywhere!
During Boot, PIR, specialized training, deployment or when you're just thinking about your loved one on distant shores.
Don't forget holidays, family events or birthdays - Just light a a blue candle, any type of blue candle (Blue for Navy) and allow its warm glow to bring you comforting joy & peaceful solace, and while separated from your Sailor.
Blessings to all our Sailors all over the World ♥
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Comment by Storymom on April 2, 2017 at 12:16am
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Valentine's Day!!
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A day late!
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Welcome Creach!
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Comment by Creach on January 20, 2017 at 10:45am
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This is a wonderful idea for all our sailors:)
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Here's a page explaining the tradition (from Navy for Moms) Stating White is Coast Guard, and Air Force is LIGHT blue...that makes more sense....wish I could edit my posting Grrrr. Here's the link if interested. http://navyformoms.ning.com/group/bootcampmoms/page/blue-candles
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Grape Mom....BravoZulu to your Sailor! I discovered this group many years ago, it was created by Alicia from Texas (see intro above) and its been a long tradition in Navy Families. my blue candle comforted me during Boot/A school, Specialized training, deployments and whenever I worried about our Sailor boy. We have it lit at family birthdays & holidays at the dinner table, for all to share its blue hues, and its often lit on the kitchen window sill during quiet evenings. I heard that Army Moms light green candles, Marines Red, Air Force -white, etc. Scroll back thru the pages here and you'll see years of discussion, thoughts, prayers and ideas about the Blue Candle tradition. Any blue candle will do! I found a blue glass votive at a garage sale...very pretty :) I hope the Blue candle comforts you too, when you're missing your Sailor, or have "the worries"....Please join Navy Mom Groups here, in your state or region, and the PIR group (maybe you have?) and then the group for where your son is headed....fire control, Boatswain? Yeoman? Mechanics, Electronics, Aviation? Diver, nuke? Culinary? SeaBee? Cryptology? ....and groups that share your same hobbies, interests too! Just go to the "Groups" tab, enter a key word, and they all pop up for you to choose to join. ❤
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Comment by Baker on January 7, 2017 at 4:01pm
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Welcome Grape Mom. Storymom set up this group. I have been here for 4 years. The Blue Candle is a Navy tradition. We use a Christmas Electric single candle that stays on 24/7. We have it near our Sailor's graduation picture from Boot Camp. For me, it brings my attention to the blue candle when I enter the room. Then I glace at my son's handsome face and "wish him a good day. Hope you are doing well!" Our son questions why we do it. We do it as a tribute to him and his service to our country. We do it to help soon the emptiness we have in our hearts while he is away from "Home!" Whatever it means to you.
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