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:
Events
**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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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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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Comment by TexasDocMom on October 18, 2012 at 5:42pm
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Ann Romney just told the women on the View that having her sons go off on missions for the LDS church is like them going off to war. WHAT THE HELL???
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Group for moms with deployed kids Ginger, please join this group, you'll find moms with a lot of experience to help you cope while your son is deployed...My son liked deployment, I was so delighted when he fell in love and finally said he didn't want to deploy again and was leaving the Navy!
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Comment by Gingerman on June 8, 2012 at 9:18am
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It's been a while since I've posted. My son experienced his first indirect fire this week. Said it's easy to sleep through. Deployment scares the hell out of me, but he is enjoying himself.
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My experience is that our Senators do write back...John Cornyn will send me a form letter on whatever topic it is, and Kay Bailey Hutchinson will tell me, politely, that I'm not quite bright enough to think like she does. Our Congressman (for now, the Texas Republicans have been successful in dividing my county into 5 districts and screwing as many Democrats as they can) is Lloyd Doggett, and he responds quickly every time. My son put down a wrong date on his VA /GI Bill paper work and posted on Doggett's facebook page, within a day he had someone in Doggett's office in touch with him and assigned to help him straighten it out. It generally takes about 3 weeks to get the form letters, especially if you do not agree politically with whoever you write (that's my experience, anyway) I'd hit their facebook pages, just remember to be courteous but steadfast, and realize you could get some idiot troll responses. Ignore them and stay the course! I generally ask those type of folks "and where did you serve? or where does your child serve?" and they don't have real answers.
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Comment by DJones on March 15, 2012 at 7:57am
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MalaMama....I know what you are saying. These politicians really don't care. Most of them don't have familiy members there and can go to bed at night and not worry. How many of them do you suppose have visited our wounded at Walter Reed National Medical Center since most live in this area? It really is ashame you didn't get even ONE response. I would love to know when this young man is on tour and where. Would love to meet him. I really believe everything is going downhill in Afghanistan and the sooner we get our loved ones out the better.
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Think we need to get the conversation going over here on this board. As we've learned in the past, there are very different political views on N4M and we need to keep the Mom support board for moms with kids in Iraq/Afghanistan apolitical.
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I friend of mine who I worked with is stationed at Bagram. They said the violence is spreading. So worried about the troops. Why don't our politicians take a good look at this and stop all the madness and get the hell out.
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Glad you can relate! Inga should be around soon, this will be good for both of you moms with kids in A, a place to visit where one doesn't have to watch out what you say too much...enjoy!
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