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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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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AECF - FCs and ETs

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For families that have a loved one serving the Navy as an FC or an ET. This is the place to share and learn more about their jobs and schools. For subs - look for the SECF group.

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Comment by Elizabeth on June 14, 2011 at 2:12pm: Oh ok :)

Comment by Elizabeth on June 14, 2011 at 12:48pm: omg all of yalls answers are different lol. what is it?

Comment by Elizabeth on June 14, 2011 at 11:53am: i thought he cant leave base at all when he is in school

Comment by Elizabeth on June 14, 2011 at 11:45am: so i should get married in courthouse then after we can have a wedding? and most people get married during PIR. so mostly if im married to him i can go mostly not all places with him.

Comment by Anti M on June 14, 2011 at 10:12am: Whew, that was the short version. (and it freaks moms out for the most part)

Comment by Anti M on June 14, 2011 at 10:11am: Izzy, in order to have the Navy pay for your move to his first duty station, you must be married before he receives that set of orders. Since you are not married now, the Navy will not pay to move you up to Great Lakes during his school. You can move up there on your own, but until you are married, he receives no housing allowance for you. Once married, he can ask permission from the school to live off base with you. Mostly they allow it, if he has earned his liberty privileges, is doing well in school, and has no discipline problems.

Once he is at his first command, he can sleep off base if he chooses, but he will not get money for housing unless he is married. (too soon to talk about being an E-5).

He will not get leave to come home to get married. If you look in the Girlfriends/fiances/wives group, you will see many discussions about ladies going to the A school base and marrying at the courthouse well before A school ends. They do this to be included in that first PCS move. Otherwise, they sit at home until the move can be arranged, or in case of overseas orders, until they can get command sponsorship. It gets complicated.

Sailors are instructed not to marry PIR weekend.

Comment by Vickimed(AECF-ET) on June 14, 2011 at 10:03am: This Army Wife/ Navy Mom wants to say Happy Birthday ARMY. Happy Flag Day. Fly your flag today.

Comment by Vickyrun on June 14, 2011 at 9:59am: "So trying to figure out trends will only rack your brain." So true Angie, I tell them this all the time. Lol The miltary doesn't make much sense to a civilian mind. You have to think a whole new way.

I know from being an Army brat.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on June 14, 2011 at 1:50am: Lizzy, Recruits get their job around the 5th week of boot camp. They are given the opportunity to change if they like. At least my son was given the opportunity. His Chief asked him if he really wanted to be FC. He said that he did, so that is what he was given.

Students can only get leave during the Christmas Stand Down while at (A)school.. Or if a relative dies like a brother, sister, parent and sometimes grandparent.

Stand Down ie Christmas break.

Comment by Elizabeth on June 14, 2011 at 1:07am: yeah i wanted to join the navy cause i took jrotc in high school, but my asvab wasn't high enough. But my fiance sure is, im proud of him i cant wait to be with him. i hope they help us out, i just want to be with him. i just hope he gets a phone i will be good if i can call him everyday. and when we get married will we be able to take a honeymoon? yeah i definitely know navy comes first.