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 Holli on August 21, 2013 at 11:26am
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Evan's go to A School for Damage Control man (firefighter). he is there until end of October from what they told him.
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Comment by Rock on August 20, 2013 at 5:56pm
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Hi Holli. My son graduated bootcamp with Evan. In fact, I believe I saw you in the foyer of the Courtyard Marriott the morning we went to the PIR ceremony. My son flew out Saturday morning for Dam Neck, VA. So far, so good. It's a lot better being able to have some contact with them.
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Comment by girlnboots on August 20, 2013 at 5:25pm
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Congrats Holli. What's he going to A school for?
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Hi other Indiana mom's. my son Evan just graduated bootcamp on 8-16-13, he is now in A School at Great Lakes
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My daughter goes to BC on 8/7 she is going in as an mom also.
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Comment by mom27 on July 24, 2013 at 3:55pm
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It takes awhile to get used to not hearing from them and even now it is hard for my husband to talk to her because it makes him miss her even more. She is a engineman and boat engineer on the RHIBs (Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats). It depends on what day you talk to her whether she likes it or not.lol It is difficult being a girl with more schooling than the men in a mostly men job. They ask her a question and when she doesn't tell them what they want to hear they ask someone else. The problem is she knows she is right.(hence the schooling) She is one of the only ones that was sent to C school straight out of bootcamp.
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Mom 27. Do you get used to not hearing from them? Does she like it?what does she do?
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Birds of a feather I thought I was okay but I apparently can't keep July & August straight. Lol. Not much longer for you hang in there. I am OK now I still have 15 days with my girl. It is starting to sink in to her and she is a mom as girl so I am strong for her.
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Yes she has been in a lil over a year now and is currently serving on the USS Ronald Reagan in San Diego. It is tough having them that far away from home and there are times when they are out doing certifications that she can't be reached for weeks but she is getting to do and see so much.
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Girlnboots, thanks for thinking of me but I still have to wait a while to see my boy. His PIR is 8/16. Are you doing ok?
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