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.
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- Graduation Info
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Comment by MountainMama(ship3 div081) on November 1, 2010 at 11:15pm
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Yes it is a small world. Maybe sometime we could all meet in Buckhannon and share a meal together, and brag about our sailors!
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Prayers of thanksgiving going up for your sailor and you!
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Weston.
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Penny, he's leaving for Basic on Dec. 14....the recruiter calls it shipping out so I thought that's what it was called. I have a lot to learn. Nathaniel is going to be an MA. I guess we won't find out where he will be stationed until a few weeks into A school.
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I'm so glad I found this group. My son will ship out 12/14/10. I'm going to need support about then. I am a single mother with three sons, and we are all very close. I am so very proud of him, but I am going to miss him badly! My prayers are with you all and your sailors.
Montani Semper Liberi!
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Comment by Anti M on March 25, 2009 at 10:23am
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Jacqueline, great to hear he's doing well... but please, DON'T give details like the name of the base in a war zone and his work schedule. OPSEC applies to these small groups also. It may not seem like much to you, but really, this is the little bits of info that a baddie can build a big picture with. It may seem like common knowledge to you, but that doesn't matter. That's info that doesn't belong on a public board. Keep him safe by not over-sharing.
Sorry about the rant, I used to have a TS clearance and had this stuff drilled into my head.
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My Hubby, who is the hillbilly of the family, mumbles about me being a "city kid". We live in Utah now. His family in Clarksburg thinks I'm strange ... I'm a a Californian by birth and was raised Navy. Sigh. I probably am a city kid.
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Heck, I remember the gas chamber in boot camp and that was 30 years ago! We did battle stations, but our "ship" wasn't much more than plywood and ladders... nothing like the realistic one they have now. There's a group on here about battlestations, has a really good video.
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Jacqueline, my thoughts are with your son, and you, and his wife. May you all be reunited safely and joyfully.
Shelly, sounds like she is in the difficult adjustment part of boot camp. Things will come along more easily soon, and once they begin acting as a unit, they pride and hopefully a few privileges will come along also.
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The physical stuff actually comes easier in bootcamp than one would think, but being prepared doesn't hurt at all. They should try to memorize the 11 general orders before bootcamp, because they will be asked them constantly, and in stressful conditions, backwards and forwards.
Check my blogs, I have one on advice to take to bootcamp. Aimed at women, but works for guys too.
Thank you for allowing your children to serve!
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