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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 NancyC on December 4, 2008 at 1:52pm: Hi MissKathyMc. congratulations on your daughter's decision to go Navy! She is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime (figurativelly and literally)! And a new world will open up for you also. At least that was my experience when my son joined. I have no other family in the military (except for veterans of WWII) so I knew next to nothing about the military. I have also learned alot about the world, since David has been overseas in the far east for 3 years.
You're not too far from me. I live in Birmingham. You can certainly count on support from me and the other local moms on this site! Nancy

Comment by NancyC on November 13, 2008 at 5:59pm: Hey Linda, we can't wait for David to come back in April, seems like he's been gone forever, and Norfold will seem so close compared to Japan. David is 22. He graduated from highschool at 17, went to college for a year and then joined the Navy right when he turned 19. After bootcamp, he spent 6 months in A and C schools at Virginia Beach and then went to Japan. He has sailed on the Kitty Hawk and George Washington carriers all over the far east. He has about 3 1/2 more years of service. He enlisted for 6 years (job requirement) and then added 1 more year for a bonus, so he will have 7 total when he finishes. He has no desire to re-enlist. He wants to finish his degree and continue his career (although he's not exactly sure what that career will be yet). The Navy has been good for him but he has no intention of making a career out of it.

Comment by NancyC on November 12, 2008 at 12:07am: Hi Linda, yes Clay-Chalkville is the highschool. My son and daughter graduated from there. Yes, David is far away. He has been coming home each year in the spring. We went to meet him in Hawaii this summer but his schedule was changed at the last munute so we missed him (but we still had a great time in Hawaii). We did get to see him in San Diego in August. And thankfully, next spring he will be coming back to the US for good. He will then be stationed in Norfolk for shore duty. Do you go see your son in DC? Or does he come home? Nancy

Comment by NancyC on November 11, 2008 at 5:32pm: Hi everyone, I just found this group. I don't know how long this group has existed, but I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Living in Alabama and having a child in the Navy is a rare thing (or so it seems to me)! I haven't been able to find any Navy moms in my area (on or off the internet), the Marines and the Arrny, yes, but not the Navy. I live in Birmingham (actually Clay, just outside) and my son has been stationed in Atsugi, Japan for 3 years. He serves with the airwing that is attached to the USS George Washington. I believe I saw some comments from others on here about the GW. Anyway, just wanted to say hello and to say that I'm so thankful that I'm not alone in Alabama!!!!