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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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
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
Bootcamp or A School Graduation?
Which is more important..... Bootcamp PIR or A School graduation? We live in Arizona and it looks like flights to Chicago, bootcamp, and Florida, A School, are around $500 per person; plus car and hotel. We are probably not going to be able to attend both. Which is more important? I have yet to hear from my daughter, so I can't ask her. Thank you!
Views: 515
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by akamom on
-
Question for you experienced folks....my daughter's PIR is March 2nd and her A school is going to in Pensicola. I am told that she will be leaving at o'dark hundred on Saturday morning for the airport. We want to make sure that is the case so I can book flights out later that same day. I want to try to stay with her at the airport until she leaves. My question is ; have your rc's left on Saturday for Pensicola and which airport did they fly out of - O'Hare or Midway?
-
Permalink Reply by kryssieb on
-
Good question. I have read the same thing you have heard. I too am curious. And, do they only get the ONE day of liberty?
-
Permalink Reply by Denise-- Seabee Mom on
-
Attend the Boot Camp graduation. MOst of the A-schools arent that big of a deal. You can check in the groups and see what most say that do attend. But your money into PIR. Chec k out PIR Navy video's on youtube. You will get the idea.
Best to you
-
Permalink Reply by aj2daway on
-
I have been fortunate to be there for both PIR and my child's 2nd ceremony.
Perhaps you have already decided but let me offer my opinion as well. Being there for your child'a PIR is way more important. I was glad to be there for me but I think that attending PIR meant a lot more -it had been a grueling 8 weeks for him. The 2nd graduation ,(while not many parents attended so it was nice to one of the few), had a lot more inside jokes ,etc. I think too that my child was in a much better place so did not need me to be there as much.
-
Permalink Reply by Chrissey on
-
My Sailors PIR was 2/3...it was an awesome ceremony...even though your time might be limited with him/her for the time you are there I definately recommend going...after 8+ weeks of no contact with them it will do both them & you good to see what they have worked so hard towards...becoming a Sailor...I am still up in the air about going to A school Grad as he will be in GL for almost a year (IF there is no hold)
-
Permalink Reply by ragdoll193 on
-
Bootcamp PIR definitely. My roommate just graduated A school. Even the ship (barracks) did not attend.
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
