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.
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:
**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.
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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Hello my name is Keisha and i am the creator of this group. Thanks for joining and i hope that all the advice this group gives is helpful
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I know I gotta learn these abbrevations that everyone is talking about so I dont feel so dumb
Hello everyone,
I am so glad to join this as I have learned so much in the past few days. My husband leaves for boot camp in March and me and my daughter of 3 will miss him. I am glad this is here so I can talk and learn more of what to expect while hes gone and what will come next. My Husband is going to be in school for GSE and we have been told that 99% he will be based in Norfolk. I know this is the Military and nothing is set in stone.
Anti M that's a lot off great info. I'm not worried about relocating because my school has a couple of integrated campuses around the world and online, but I'm currently on a break anyway after a year and a half of no vacations or anything. I think we'll probably try to get the proper paperwork done. As much as we want to be together, I don't want to risk a bad start to his career. Do you know about AECF? He hasn't heard if he'll be ET or FC, but I don't think that matters for this. When would be a good time to do it? I've heard the phase 2 liberty is the best time, but is it possible to do it before? I don't really mind if he has two buddies following us around, we need two witnesses for power of attorney anyway...at least in my state. It would be nice to try to get it done when I already planned to be there, give him power of attorney, and come home and start making my arrangements to move since I'm pretty sure the Navy won't pay for that. We can try to do DEERs together, or he can do that and the live ashore packet (with the power of attorney). I wouldn't plan on taking him overnight or anything since it's not allowed, and he thinks it will actually remove some of the stress to do it then because he can handle some paperwork in his free time, but it'll be hard on us to try to coordinate everything again, and he'd rather just have me there. I'm not going to let him risk getting that paperwork filled out. Do you know about how long it takes a special request chit to go through?
More detailed uniform allowance explanation:
The biggest uniform change on the horizon is changing the crackerjack dress uniforms. For women, they will get new dress blues, the crackerjacks instead of the suit. It will be an expensive change.
The good news on the NWU change is most uniform changes are gradual, and there is time to wear the old uniform before spending money on the new ones.
Uniform allowance tables:
http://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/payentitlements/2016ClothingAll...
Anything called a pay is taxable, any allowance is not. State taxes are by where you hold residency, usually the home of record. If you each have a different state residency, you each pay taxes in those states. You can file a joint federal tax return, but must file individual state tax returns. I switched mine to my husband's state, as they did not tax military pay, or dependent pay out of state.
No one has reported getting in trouble for marrying PIR weekend, however, they do sign a page 13 stating they will obey all the liberty rules. That includes not getting married. So it is possible to get in trouble, which could be anything from losing liberty privileges to losing their school. Is it probable? Not based on past knowledge. You never know when they will decide to crack down, so you have to go by whatever the current "feel" is. No one on the RTC side can give him permission to marry, TSC is the school side and "owns" him after PIR. Two commands.
You can't access his GI bill anyway, not for ten years.
AECF is long enough to live with him offbase. Many couples do, either in an offbase rental or in housing, which is right next to base. Once you are married and he has you enrolled in DEERS, he can put in a Live Ashore packet to reside with you offbase. Takes about a month. He has to be in good standing, which is what makes me wonder about the repercussions of a PIR marriage. Just a lot of what ifs involved.
Once you are married, he gets BAH for you whether you live together or not. During training, if you live elsewhere, he can live in the barracks for free. No problem in A or C school. This will not be true at future commands, married sailors must have their own domicile unless approved for special circumstance geo-graphical bachelor. This does not include a spouse who doesn't want to move because of school or job.
A word about Tricare. If you carry any other insurance, Tricare becomes secondary. Very few other insurances can compare to Tricare, which is essentially free to dependents on prime, and very cheap on standard.
That's crazy! That's where my fiancé is heading and will be doing either FC or ET. If I want him to have power of attorney for me, is it the same deal with the CPC? Also, already being married and in GL...what horror stories, if any, do you have of couples that got married PIR weekend? I've heard they're more strict than others about this. I know they want to protect their sailors from marriage scams and make sure they know all the benefits, but we've been together for a long time and been through a lot of similar things we expect from the Navy while I studied business in France, so it seems ridiculous to think I would be trying to steal his money or he just wants to get BAH, but the Navy doesn't know our whole back story, and we're not super concerned about the benefits because he would prefer to forfeit the BAH to live on base because I was late getting my license, and lived in a country that I couldn't drive the cars if I wanted to, so I'm still trying to get a year accident free under my belt for insurance, and he doesn't want to worry about a car yet ( I think his heart is really set on his dream car, this old ford thing, and he wants to ditch my Prius haha). Plus, I think he has to live on base while in school. I don't need his GI Bill because I'm almost done and my school is relatively inexpensive to most American Colleges, and I have health insurance...although TriCare pricing is much more attractive compared to mine. I also feel like I'll have plenty of time to educate myself on benefits while he's in school and studying. Anyway, we've been planning this weekend for awhile (not a big ceremony, just a couple runs to the courthouse and getting enrolled in DEERs), but now I'm reading they don't like it when you run off and get married PIR weekend. Is it really that big of a deal...will he get in trouble?
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