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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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CS (Culinary Specialist) Moms

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The heart and soul of the Navy-the cook! Let's swap stories and exchange info about our loved ones being a CS in the Navy!

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Latest Activity: Apr 22, 2021

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Comment by therevbev on March 22, 2017 at 10:59am: Do let me know if graduation is that late... seems long (unless they get a break for Easter). It's usually been about 5 weeks of classes.

Comment by bellagirl on March 22, 2017 at 8:45am: I am so glad to have this group. The Boot Camp group was so helpful and I look forward to chatting with all of you and becoming family.

Comment by bellagirl on March 22, 2017 at 8:44am: Good morning all, my sailor graduated 3/17 and will be headed to VA she said on 4/1/17. She said that she thinks she will have the A school graduation on or about 5/21. That is what she knows as of now.

Comment by MaryJul on March 14, 2017 at 6:27pm: NaVyBoNuSmOm - Glad to find other Navy moms, what building is your daughter in? Can we say?

Comment by NaVyBoNuSmOm on March 14, 2017 at 5:32pm: Great! Thanks therevbev

MaryJul, we'll make the trip if the dates work out.

Comment by MaryJul on March 14, 2017 at 5:20pm: Hi! My son graduated on 3/10 also and is still in GL.

Were you planning on going to that graduation too?

Comment by therevbev on March 14, 2017 at 5:18pm: NaVyBoNuSmOm- Hi! And welcome. IF you look down the page abit you'll see my "schedule" as it has been for the last few years. (January 23rd) The time at Fort Lee is pretty standard, about 5 weeks, but holidays etc. can interrupt the dates. Your CS will be told fairly early when the exact date of finish is.

Comment by NaVyBoNuSmOm on March 14, 2017 at 4:57pm: Hello all, My sailor graduated on 3/10/17 & she'll be attending A school in Virginia. I'm looking to see if anyone also has a sailor heading that way & if anyone knows when that graduation will be? I believe, she doesn't leave Great Lakes for another week or so. Thanks!

Comment by therevbev on February 10, 2017 at 10:32am: FINALLY! After more than a month of deployment I got my first contact; a Skype call at 2 AM! Sure I'll talk for an hour at that time! Anything to see and hear from him again. Everything's fine except a busted cellphone - thanks be for ipods and laptops with contact info - and a return to midnight shift. A few days of leave in the sun, then onward. Fair winds and following seas, my sailor, and everyone onboard.