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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

Events

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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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Navy Speak

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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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Great Lakes A School Q&A

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The purpose of this group is to allow family of new sailors assigned to school at Training Support Center Great Lakes a chance to voice questions to a Student Division Commander

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 2331
Latest Activity: Mar 12

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Comment by PAM (GM MOM) on June 22, 2011 at 8:38pm: Leaving in the morning for my last trip to Great Lakes. My son grad A school on Fri and then he leaves for Va on Sat. It has been so nice to have had him so close to home all these months. God am I going to miss that kid!!!!!

Comment by Joy125 (FC Mom) on June 22, 2011 at 7:55pm: Jodia, WhiteClay, et al.....thanks for the info! I'll have to tell my daughter to research all the different systems for the purpose of her "Dream Sheet" only.....bearing in mind that it all comes down to the needs of the US Navy, lol!

Comment by TinaZmom 02/936 on June 22, 2011 at 7:14pm: Thank you Sandy! My son has been there for 4 weeks today, he is in his 3rd week of training. Something else to look forward to.

Comment by Bri.SubWife on June 22, 2011 at 7:09pm: hello everyone! i am making a military cookbook with a friend of mine down here. we made a facebook page - so feel free to go "like" it!! make sure you read the info section, and send in your submissions to militarywivescookbook@yahoo.com!

the recipes you submit has to be all your own, BUT if you have one you love and found in a cookbook or on a website you are more than welcome to post it on the page - directions are under the info section as well!! thanks!!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Military-Wives-Recipe-Swap/128752907...

Comment by ProudGMBarb on June 22, 2011 at 6:38pm: Sandy....we could copy and paste what you just said and use it as the boilerplate answer to most questions!

"everything is based on the needs of the US Navy"

Short and sweet, and so true! And rightly so, of course...as they are "serving" the Navy!

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on June 22, 2011 at 5:54pm: In the past year I have learned that everything is based on the needs of the US Navy.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on June 22, 2011 at 5:52pm: Zacsmom, Recruits usually find out if they are going to be an ET or FC around week 7. The decision is based on the needs of the Navy.

Comment by TinaZmom 02/936 on June 22, 2011 at 5:40pm: When do they find out and how is it determined if they are an ET or FC?

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on June 22, 2011 at 5:35pm: Anti M. what you said is very true. In my son's class there were no selection of orders to choose from. Everyone just filled out their "Dream Sheet."

I belong to Navy Dads. One parent whose son graduated from (C)school said that all the orders were placed on the instructor's desk. It was then up to the students to work out among themselves who was going to get what orders.

Comment by Anti M on June 22, 2011 at 5:28pm: There is one caution about top students picking orders... every now and then that is not true. When the Navy has billets which must be filled, they issue orders rather than allow a pick. A slim chance, but always keep in mind that things change.