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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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Corpsmen Moms and Dads

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For those of us who have children serving as Corpsmen, above and beyond the call of duty!

Location: Worldwide
Members: 676
Latest Activity: Jun 24

Established June 17, 1898, the 25,000+ active duty members of the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps provide health care to Sailors, Marines, and all those entrusted to their care on the battlefield, at sea, under the sea, and at military treatment facilities worldwide.

What to expect at Field Medical Training Battalion (FMTB)

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Comment by TexasDocMom on December 22, 2009 at 11:16am: unicorn, welcome! we also have a group for moms with kids in Iraq/Afghanistan here on N4M's. Please join us if you feel the urge! If this group of women on this board doesn't know the answers, we'll either make one up or find someone who will...not really. These are good people. My son is in his fifth year in the Navy, greenside (Marine) Corpsman for the first four hears, now stationed in San Antonio at the new corpsman training center. San Antonio is only 70 miles from my front door, so yes, unicorn, dreams do come true!

Andrea! how exciting!! a DIL for Christmas!! did he put a bow on her? and a $99 flight! you have been living right, girl.

I have to clean today! My daughter's MIL is coming for Christmas Supper. Geez, how did that happen?

Comment by mikes mom on December 22, 2009 at 3:45am: Unicorn40270- Congrats on finding this site !!! I am new to the site too and everyone is very kind and helpful.
My son is in Afg as well. He is a Doc for the Marines and I feel your fear, this is my second child to be in the Navy but the first one to be in combat. Whats nice about this site is that we have each other and everyone understands our fear.

God Bless,

Marsha aks Mike's Mom

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 22, 2009 at 1:35am: This is George Ensle, a singer/songwriter from here in Austin who has performed at my house concert right in my back yard! A timely song...

Comment by mikes mom on December 21, 2009 at 5:38pm: Wow!!!! That looks really cold !!!!!
So Nikki you have snow and I'm in sunny California where it's raining ....ha ha

Comment by mikes mom on December 21, 2009 at 4:57pm: I am so glad that you get your sailor for the holidays !!!! When the time comes and yours is not with you we will all be here for you, but for right now ENJOY!!!

Merry Christmas

Comment by mikes mom on December 21, 2009 at 4:00pm: Lorelai

So true !!!!
That was my family last year we lost my mother who was such a big part of who we are and now this year my son is in Afg... This year this is our Christmas and maybe next year I will have my family with me , you never know. I am so happy for all the mom's that get their sailors for the holidays.

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 21, 2009 at 12:18pm: I know there are alot of 19 year olds on CL, I just keep thinking of one particular one my son was very worried about that was participating in the program my son was working in right before he came to Texas last month. It was very different to hear my 24 year old son speak of someone being "so young" and how he tried to convince him the military would help him and he was "young enough to get his life back on track and do well." I think I will not share this Marine's name with him. The young Marine just buried in Sinton wasn't much older, on his way to his second deployment. Those poor families, they are reeling this year. Blessings and good thoughts to all those in that pain this year, actually any time.

Comment by Sharon P.M. on December 21, 2009 at 11:22am: Good morning all and a happy winter solstice to you! Yeah, yeah, I know, I have no clue about winter! Hope all in the northeast are safe and warm! That storm was a doozy! We did have a freeze watch last night and another tonight, so we are feeling the chill a bit! Haven't gotten to read all the post from the weekend yet, I forgot my power cord here at the office over the weekend - duh! I did get a call from my cub, good news - he loves it in Naples! Makes it a little easier on me to know he's not homesick at the holidays. Was good to hear the happiness in his voice! Will get to reading backwards here soon and catch up with you all later on tonight!

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 21, 2009 at 11:00am: Cindy, what a roller coaster for you this holiday. My deepest condolences on losing such a young woman you loved, and who you had such hopes and dreams for in her life. But I share your middle of the night jubliance on that phone call, maybe you better keep that coffee pot plugged in 24/7 especially during the holidays!!! Lovely Christmas gathering!

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 20, 2009 at 7:09pm: Canned vegies. My mother thought they were manna from Heaven...no canning of vegies, no growing the green beans, no cleaning the barn. My grandfather died when she was young, and there were 4 girls, one boy...and my mom became the other farm hand. She gardened as I grew up, but no vegies! finally, when my daughter was a baby, I put in garden at her house in Corpus Christi, longest growing season of the world! and found out how much she knew! all organic gardening, because they had no chemicals back then! she taught me so much, and loved having the vegies fresh from outside her door. But no canning.