This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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.
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:
**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.
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you are welcome, I want other moms to know you are not alone, these things you are going thru are perfectly normal. :-)
week 3! Almost halfway there! Congrats and Welcome aboard, it's a topsey turvey roller coaster but in the end worth it. You did a fine job and handed over the US Navy a perfect sailor.
30 minutes from Great Lakes thats fantastic! I'm pretty sure at this point you never get over it, the separation just gets easier to handle. I still miss my son daily (I text him to tell him so!) lol After basic the lines of communication have been wide open although i have to wait til he is done with class (Yes i have my alarm set to his "A" school end of day) :-) "A" school and the ability to talk to him has made me happier, but i will be most happiest when I get to throw my arms around him and hug him again Congrats and Good Luck to your SR!
Thank you! What is your sailor going to A school for?
First let me congratulate you on your SR, and for being the loving caring and supportive mom you are! I highly suggest the Navy Lodge for PIR stay and if they don't have openings Call daily (they always open up) YOU CAN DO THIS! At PIR you will be so happy but still feel a bit contained by the "warden" that is guarding your bleechers. No worries the warden gives way once they call Liberty and It takes little or NO time for you and your now Sailor to find each other, TRUST ME! Those PIR hugs are some of the strongest and best hugs you have ever gotten,
You are very welcome. I hoped that in writing it that i could let other moms, know that what they wee going thru is perfectly normal and NO YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Congrats on your SR!!! :-D you have every reason in the world to be proud and happy, and sad, and well I'm sue you are somewhat adjusted to this never ending roller coaster. Welcome aboard!
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