This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
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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Son Leaves for GL Sept 25, 2017
Proud, scared mom here... this is my oldest and still my baby!
Glad there is this space, makes me feel not so alone!
This site may be especially helpful as my son's father and I are no longer together, and things have been "heated" with my son living with him, I expect communications to be limited :(
Thank you for excepting me and HOOYAH to all of our loved ones!
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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I left info for you on your My Page.
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Permalink Reply by Teachermomto2 on
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Hi TreysMama! Welcome! My youngest leaves 9/20...welcome to the roller coaster of the NAVY=) Make sure you take a look at all of the awesome stuff lemonelephant left for you on your page...chat with you soon=)
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Best of luck to yours as well, @nilydi...our boys may be in the same ship/division =) What is his rate?
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Teachermomto2, I'm sure you meant to ask about his "rating" (job or occupational specialty) rather than his "rate" (pay grade).
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Oops...yes...his rating...I'm still very new at this and still learning the NAVY lingo ;)
Thanks!
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:o)
The Page, What does ??? mean? (A Guide to Navy Abbreviations and Terminology), will help you with many of the new terms you will come across.
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Permalink Reply by RocketshopPM on
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My son is also slated to arrive in GL Sept 25. He is my youngest - very proud but still worried how all this will go.
Like you - he has been living with his father (no rules there!) but I'm hopeful that he will communicate with me more than his dad since his dad is expecting a new baby in the next few weeks.
Hopefully our boys will graduate together and we can meet at PIR. Best of luck to your son!
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Hi RocketshopPM....welcome! My son leaves a week earlier on the 20th. Best of luck to your son! Chat soon=)
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Permalink Reply by TreysMama on
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Hello Ladies,
So sorry in the delay in getting back to you! All my responses were going to SPAM, which is now fixed! And it was kind of an out of site out of mind thing, until I just randomly checked it today!
You are all SO WONDERFUL!
Thank you lemonelephant for all the info, SO USEFUL!
Thank you to Teachermomto2, for not only your sons HONORABLE service, but your useful advice and your willingness to share and be my first "friend" on this site!
Nilydi, good luck to your son as well, perhaps our boys will run into each other?
And Rocketshop, I just friend requested you, because it looks like we will have MUCH in common, not just ours sons going through Boot Camp together. It is always nice to have someone to share with!
Again I am tearing up here, and so thankful I found this place, I feel like this is a second home! <3
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Hey There...Glad you found your way back=)
How are you ladies feeling with these dates approaching so quickly?? I just saw that there is a Mom looking forward to her son's PIR date and it is the Friday before my boy ships to BC...now that was an eye opener!
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Brand new to this site. Our daughter leaves 9/25 to boot camp. I'm nervous, excited and clueless on the process :) She lives with her mom so her father and I are not able to be a part of her day to day routine. Hoping to learn more of the process by sharing in your journey's. Very proud of her! Best Wishes to all of yours.
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