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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Started by CCR. Last reply by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) Jan 25, 2011. 34 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) on August 10, 2010 at 3:04pm
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Hi fellow horse-lovers, I'm losing my right-hand man, Dan, on Aug. 23, going to boot camp in Great Lakes. He's my only child, just turned 18, fresh out of high school but intent on a Navy life since he was 16. It will be weird going thru foaling season without him; the day he came home from the neonatal unit, we had a foal, and since then, 38 to 52 more each year , Dan has helped save the lives of many babies, including a tragic C-section last season where the mare died but thanks to Dan's cool head and steady hand on the oxygen mask, the filly survived. Never gets rattled, even when he's pulling out a red-bag foal, Always willing to bottle-feed preemies or hold down a foal for a plasma transfusion. He's watched the foaling monitors every Friday and Saturday night since he was a teen, and has never missed a mare. Awesome kid. I hope the Navy appreciates what they're getting! Can't wait to see him at PIR in a few months, in a clean white (no horse snorts or grass stains!!) uniform. His dad and I are sooooo proud of Dan.
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Comment by CCR on May 7, 2010 at 2:34pm
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Yes, it will work in a pinch. No pun intended. Thanks to those who are keeping my folks in their prayers. I appreciate your PM's. Dad was diagnosed with dementia, so this week we moved them into an apt in an assisted living place, very nice place. Lots of work to do.
Barb, (Stacy's mom) anywhere close to Spartanburg?
NMom Barb, when they had to stay in my yard while we fenced, they even ate my herbs! Parsley is in the carrot family after all!!!!
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So now I've been taking care of my parents (dads in a hospital -he fell and shattered his hip) and while I"m gone - my husband calls and says - pipes busted under the house, another transmission went out, AND....
wait for it.....
"Gable got out and is in the pasture with the girls...."
So my question is now - who wants a free baby next year? LOL!@!!#$%#
(JB?)
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Things have been challenging this month. In March, someone bought the adjoining property we put earnest money down on (but he's a Judge) and he sold it in 1 acre plots. Yep. So because we took care of that land for 12 yrs, we never fenced it off - our horses grazed on his 20 and we never fenced off our 20 since we bush hogged, fertilized. etc. So the people putting up trailers cut the wire to the Hwy (Hwy from Lufkin to Beaumont!!) and our horses got on the road. Then the guy behind (who is supposedly bringing in cows) left the gate open and they got out on the side road that leads to the hwy.
So in one week-end, I hired some labor for my husband (recent knee replacement) and bought materials. The last thing I wanted was barbed wire, but we were in a bad pinch. They stayed in the yard and ran out of grass. The yard has that white flexible (bounce back) fencing, and when they ran out of grass, they put their front legs through it and walked through. Back to the hwy. Lord, only God knows how no one got run over.
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JB, when we lived in Chattanooga, we went to several bourbon places to tour. I love the name "Bourbon Trail"! In Ft. Worth (I lived there ~30 yrs) there is a Chisolm trail and another one I can't remember the name. One spring , one fall.
Oh yeah, and then the Red Steagall cowboy round up poetry shindig!
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We had 2 pipes burst, one at the barn. Hasn't been this cold since 1895 I heard. Darn global warming, LOL!
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I don't know about Mexican Petunias, but I have a long list of edible flowers. Oh yes, Oleander and black walnut and dried up cherry leaves are poisonous.
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Yes, I did it once, (putting that PIR video on here) but I am exactly like "50 first dates" and have to relearn all over. Its annoying and aggravating to get old.
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ha ha. That is so funny. I have one that does. Its funny one time, then it gets darn old.
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Beth, you are making me tear up. My son still will not kiss me, but now he understands why my hugs are longer and tighter. "Mom, someone will see" Balderdash!
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