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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Comment by slapout52 on July 20, 2011 at 12:24pm: It occurs to me that we could all go to Peach Park and have bbq & ice cream & peaches together. Well, why not? Clanton is in the middle of the state. LOL Seriously, My Sailor will be home from A school pretty soon & then he goes to Mayport. It'll be awhile before he's back up here, I am sure. My baby is at MEPS today. Long day for him & for me too.

Comment by sleepgirl on July 19, 2011 at 11:41pm: stephsmom- I know right!! I can not wait to get my first "real" letter! Don't worry heard only white paper white envelopes. Nothing to draw attention!!

Comment by sleepgirl on July 19, 2011 at 10:09pm: Karla, it was good talking to you too! We will get together soon. I got your other message but had to get back so we will catch up again I am sure! Thanks for all the advice and info last night!! So appreciated!

Comment by sleepgirl on July 19, 2011 at 10:08pm: stephsmom- Hey girl its Sheila from church! Now I know who you are from talking to Karla last night! Well I got the form letter and the kid in the box so now I wait! LOL. How are you all! Haven't seen any of you since christmas at the photo store! LOL. Due to all this I am alot greyer now! LOL

Comment by angelle3 (Ship 12 / Div 310) on July 19, 2011 at 4:46pm: I appreciate the support ya'll. She shipped out this morning, currently waiting at the airport for her flight. I managed to say goodbye with a smile on my face (largely due to a major breakdown alone in my hotel room last night!)

Comment by angelle3 (Ship 12 / Div 310) on July 18, 2011 at 11:04am: Thanks Yankee'sMom. I AM happy and VERY proud! I have vowed to not fall apart till after she's gone. So far, so good. Thank you all so much for your advice and support!

Comment by angelle3 (Ship 12 / Div 310) on July 17, 2011 at 8:33pm: Thanks slapout52 and stephsmom! She is taking her phone with her and will mail it back. I will have to be dead to miss PIR!

Comment by slapout52 on July 17, 2011 at 8:17pm: angellee, see my comment below. I can't tell you how important the cards & letters became as the weeks went by. You may get a phone call or 2 like when she passes Battlestations, but the every stuff they write in their letters is priceless. Also, go to her PIR no matter if you're in a body cast! It is one amazing experience.

Comment by angelle3 (Ship 12 / Div 310) on July 17, 2011 at 7:39pm: My daughter leaves for BC Tuesday (7/19). We are going down to Montgomery tomorrow with her and will see her swear in at MEPS before she's gone. Any advice for me?

Comment by slapout52 on July 17, 2011 at 6:40pm: Hey Alabama friends--I have been reading posts from bc moms & I cannot believe that I was where you are just last spring! Keep writing letters, be a cheerleader if the phone call is less than joyful (on their end) and look forward to PIR being the best day of your life. Also, look forward to the trip home from PIR being the worst day of your life. LOL but it gets ok. I got a call from my A school Sailor last week. We talked for 30 minutes. He likes his classes, and graduation is just around the corner (August). Then he gets to come home for a few days . . . I understand there's a lovely sailor girl who will visit us, too . . . and that's fine with us. Then it's on to Mayport for my kid. After you've driven to Illinois and back, a visit to the Florida East Coast doesn't seem like much at all. So smiles all around here. One new development, though, and I ask your prayers and well-wishes: My #2 son, my Sailor's baby bro, has enlisted in the Army. His MOS will be infantry (gulp), and we are in for a long DEP. Then he heads to Ft. Benning. Here we go again.