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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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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:

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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Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Comment by Susie C on November 14, 2010 at 1:00am: This is for ccNavyMom....When my son was on ship I would send him a pkg every few weeks of things that he would enjoy. I also bought a whole bunch of postcards and wrote a few lines on each one and made the story last for about 12 postcards and then send him one a week that way he got a lot of mail to read and it was like a jigsaw puzzle only using postcards. When it came time for his birthday I sent him a Birthday Paty ina Box. I filled it with fun stuff like balloons, confetti, a fun adult game, some aspirins, a couple of shot glasses, etc. He was really happy when he got it and had a blast with some of his friends.

Comment by AlansMom on November 11, 2010 at 9:02pm: Janet (Vince's Mom), Maybe we could meet at Jacks in Pinson for lunch one day. My husband and I have lunch there about 3 days a week and McDonald's and Subway the other days. We live pretty close to all of them.

Comment by AlansMom on November 11, 2010 at 6:16pm: My son got home last night from GL after finishing boot camp and A school there. He'll be here for 2 weeks and then on to Norfolk VA and the USS Iwo Jima. Anyone have a sailor on the Iwo Jima or stationed in Norfolk?

Comment by fredabee on October 25, 2010 at 12:13pm: Hi, I'm Freda and I'm so glad I found this group. My son's PIR is this coming Friday. My husband, daughter and myself are flying up to Great Lakes to spend as much time with him over the weekend as he's allowed. He is then going to pre-BUDS. I haven't heard yet but am hoping that he will get a Christmas break to come home before going to BUDS out in Coronado, CA. Thanks for giving me a place to come hang out and learn about how all you other moms handle having your precious kids in the Navy! So proud and yet missing him so much...

Comment by cj-jon'smom on October 21, 2010 at 12:38pm: Hello, I am new to this group and this site. My son will be going to MEPS this week and I have no idea what to expect! Anyone else in the Wiregrass area?

Comment by Nancy (Taylor's mom) on October 18, 2010 at 12:23pm: Karla, you and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers. I can totally relate to your situation as well - the reason we ended up in Chicago was because my husband was a casualty of corporate downsizing in March 2009. He was laid off from a job that he had been very successful in for 10+ years. Things are finally starting to turn around for him very slowly, but it has been a long, stressful (both financially and emotionally) 18 months living in a city where we know no one. As hard as it's been, I feel like we've learned to be kinder and more compassionate people because of all of this - for that I am grateful. I find myself humbled by lots of things I might have taken for granted in the past. I just know that things will get better for y'all. You have to keep believing that there is light at the end of the tunnel. In the meantime, we're all here to pray for you and be here for you.

Comment by Nancy (Taylor's mom) on October 18, 2010 at 11:59am: Adorable!! Big congrats on this wonderful new addition to your family, Debra!

Comment by njohnson on October 16, 2010 at 4:00pm: Hello, I'm writing to tell you all thank you for your thoughts, prayers and words of encouragment for First Class Calvin!!! I'm Calvin's cousin and I found and joined this site shortly after my cousin passed away and I had to tell you all that it meant a lot to me to read all the comments posted on 1st Class Calvin. Thank you so much for thinking of his family during this time. It means so much to know how loved he was! May his memory be eternal!

As you all know, this is a very difficult time for our family, but your thoughts and kind words provide some strength in our weakest hour. Please continue to pray for Calvin's mother during this time. I will keep each of you in my prayers and thoughts! May God Bless each of you!

Comment by Nancy (Taylor's mom) on October 13, 2010 at 10:08am: My prayers are with Cody and his shipmates, Ringtone's Mom. I know that this is a very sad time for them - as well as Calvin's family of course.

Comment by AlansMom on October 4, 2010 at 2:29pm: My son graduated from A School last Friday in Great Lakes. I'm anxiously awaiting his getting orders so he can come home for a couple of weeks to Pinson, Alabama, before venturing to his duty station wherever that may be. Glad to find a group of moms from Alabama. Wish I had found it before so I could have joined you at P.F.Changs in September.