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Navy For Moms

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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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**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:

RTC Graduation

**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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Engineers

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Group for those who have loved ones in the engineering field. DC, EM, EN, EOD, GSE/GSM, HT, IC, MM, MR

Members: 222
Latest Activity: Feb 15, 2020

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Comment by Debbie2 on December 18, 2010 at 9:02pm: My son will be graduating BC on 1/14/11 and then staying at GL for A school for EN.

Comment by joansj proudGSM mom on December 18, 2010 at 5:14pm: Thanks for the info proudmom, I will make sure I include these tips when I write him again.

Comment by joansj proudGSM mom on December 18, 2010 at 1:46pm: Hi all, I joined this group so that I may get a better understanding of what my son will be doing for a job while he is in the navy. My son is currently in BC and will PIR 1/28/2011, his job will be GSM. I am trying to figure out exactly how GSM correlates to what he did when he was in high school. He was in steam engineering. What I am trying to say is, what is GSM? and what are the duties of a GSM? Is the work a GSM do mostly on land or sea?

Comment by Rhonda(EMmom) on December 17, 2010 at 11:22am: MY SON IS GETTING FROCKED TODAY!!!

I just wanna congratulate my son, he's worked very hard to earn this! Very proud of him for achieving something so fast. Love ya, son!

Comment by cheffiona on November 1, 2010 at 9:55pm: My daughter really enjoyed the EN strand schooling there was 7 in her class! she graduated from that last friday and now all her dental and paperwork is in order and is just waiting for date to come home on leave and she also found out saturday the her ship leaves for 2 weeks in december she will be there then and in february 2011 her ship leaves for 7-8 month tour!!! San Diego is nice we lived there for years but it got so expensive thats why we moved to nv. A school at great lakes is ok! Roomies can be a pain! I sent her plenty of food packages which she really appreciated and baked cakes and cupcakes and sent them too!! All got there in one piece lol! Blankets would be a help too as it is now getting really cold. Daughter will be sending home some of her stuff tomorrow that she does not want to bring on the plane with her.

Comment by Rhonda(EMmom) on November 1, 2010 at 8:36pm: Proudmomofsailorsarah--Welcome and congrats to your daughter. We wish her good luck in school and tell her to do her best, she will be rewarded for it.

Comment by ProudMomofSailorSarah on November 1, 2010 at 1:44am: Hello everyone-My daughter is an EN just had her PIR 10/29/2010. She is a 'A' school at Great Lakes

Comment by Rhonda(EMmom) on October 28, 2010 at 7:26pm: Welcome cheffiona-- my son is an EM and already in SD, on the USS Rentz, he loves it out there. Long way from Green Bay, WI though :( He gets to come home for Christmas, so we are looking forward to making the holidays extra special this year. Good luck to your daughter and her husband.

Comment by ProudOfMySon (Ship 09 Div 291) on October 28, 2010 at 11:16am: Hi Cheffiona - my son is scheduled to leave for bc on July 12, 2011. He will then go to A school for EN. Has your daughter said anything about the likes/dislikes of that rate? How was A school? Did she go to C school? Thanks, those were just a couple of questions that we had. Please thank your daughter for me for protecting and serving.

Comment by cheffiona on October 28, 2010 at 10:41am: My daughter is an EN pir 8/6/10 and is just about to finish her EN strand and graduate gl 29th october she already has her orders and will be home for leave for 11 days and then off to San Diego USS Comstock, we live in nv now and are originally from San Diego so we know the area well and at least we are only about 4 hours away so can get to see her often and she married during A school 18th Sept and her hubby leaves for boot camp in Feb 2011 until then he is moving to san diego and they will be getting an apartment very close to our old house. Im so glad she got San Diego as we have family there close at hand and we hopefully will get to spend christmas with her and hubby in their new place.