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
Latest Activity
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
PIR Graduation
Hi all,
I am very new at this and haven't recieved any info from my son yet who shipped out 9/23/14. Does anyone have any idea when PIR Grad. could be so I can start to plan. Also how long does it take to get any word form him either a letter or phone call. Missing my son.
Thanks to all you Navy moms this web site has been soooooo helpful.
Views: 3028
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on
-
Except for Tiffany, the current official official admin for the Navy For Moms site, all the members who provide help, information and post comments are VOLUNTEERS with loved ones in the Navy. They are unpaid contributors to this site.
Once you get passed the "newbie" stage, please stick around and help wherever and whenever you can. Just a supportive comment here and there will make a world of difference for a member who is just starting this journey. Even "old" veterans to military life can use a supportive shoulder now and then.
Good luck to you and your sailor. Enjoy the wonderful ride.
-
Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
-
HoneyBeeQueen, You are very welcome. I am an administrator in the group, Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) (which doesn't really mean anything), but I am not an administrator on the N4M site. Tiffany is the only N4M administrator. There are several seasoned members who help out on the site, but that does not make us any more valuable than the other member on N4M.
-
-
Marissadolphin3, It is more likely that your recruit will be in the Thanksgiving TG than the week after, but either is a possibility.
Check your My Page.
-
Permalink Reply by CryptoDad on
-
Two Divisions that train (and test) together are "Brother Divisions".
-
-
The Page, What does ??? mean? (A Guide to Navy Abbreviations and Terminology), will help you with many of the new terms you will come across.
-
Permalink Reply by Ship12div016mom on
-
I received form letter today! My son left 9/23 and PIR is Nov.21. Tomorrow is his 18th birthday. Glad I finally have an address.
-
Permalink Reply by AmandaHisNavyGirl on
-
Hello Kimberly I received my bf form letter today also he is on Ship 12 Div 16 PIR 11/21. Can't wait to send off my letters. BTW Happy birthday to your son.
-
Permalink Reply by Dalleen on
-
I haven't spoken to my son either but he did call his girlfriend, and we received the form letter on Saturday. My son is on Ship 14 Div 011 with a PIR date of November 21 if all goes well. It's very confusing because some who arrived on the same date of 9/23 are graduating on 11/14.
Hang in there, I'm sure you'll hear something from him soon. This has been a bit difficult for most of us, but I feel certain they are safe.
-
-
Some who arrived on Monday or Tuesday filled a division from the previous week's TG and are in a Push Division and are in one of the last divisions for the TG and some who arrived on the same days were placed in a division from the TG for that week and are in one of the first divisions of the new TG.
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
