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 Anti M on December 3, 2008 at 11:48am
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I've visited the Carl Vinson, that's one big ship! How exciting!
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We were in Morgantown and Independence over the holiday ... not too bad weather-wise!
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I was stationed in DG ... also known as the Footprint of Freedom. The atoll looks like a foot ... there's no base. The entire island IS the base. It is owned and run by the British, they do the policing and customs. It is right below the equator, quite hot but about the same all year. The beaches are amazing and there's lots of outdoor activity. I went to the gym every day and was slim and tan ... look in my photos, I have one posted.
There are clubs and such, no vehicles except for military, everyone rides beater bikes. There are civilian workers, a small clinic, and last I heard, movies were still being shown on the outdoor walls. The barracks are pretty standard. Pack sunblock and swim trunks.
When I was there, half of the island was a nature preserve, but we could go over there for picnics if accompanied by an E-6 (which I was). There's huge runway, big enough to handle B-52s and the space shuttle. There's communications stations, and docks for the ships, and the air wing, plus a marine detachment and some Air Force. About half the sailors stationed there are female, maybe more than half. That's different, I was one of 200 women among thousands of men.
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Boot camp is 8 weeks.
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Hi, my name is Anti M.. short for Auntie Em. I have a nephew in bootcamp who will be a nuke, plus an ET friend who's an "acquired kid." He's on hubby's old ship, the Dubuque. The reason I joined is my hubby is from Clarksburg, WV. He served 20 years in the Navy as an ET(SW) and retired as a first class petty officer. He has also been stationed in Sasebo. I was stationed in Yokosuka, twice, ended up with 12 years there. I met hubby while we were both stationed on Diego Garcia. He retired in 1997, I chose not to reenlist after nine years, in 1989. Navy wife was a better choice at the time! I hope I can answer any questions, even if my info is a little old, I know where to look for updates!
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