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
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Liberal and with an Open Mind
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This is for people who would like to meet other (politically and religiously) liberal people who have a loved one in the military.
Members: 23
Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023
We are also known as the Warm & Fuzzie Obama Mamas - and are proud to support our president! Agnostic - Humanist - Atheist - Jewish - Buddhist - Democratic - Independent - Christian - Deist - searching .....all peaceful peeps are welcome!
An open mind equals an open heart which ultimately leads to world peace.
Kephen Merancis
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." ~ John F. Kennedy
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Comment by ZsMom on March 15, 2011 at 11:47am
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My son leaves tomorrow. As a liberal clergy woman this is perhaps the greatest challenge I have faced as a mom. But this is his journey and I have to let him take it. I am so grateful to find this group!
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Comment by Anti M on March 3, 2010 at 3:17pm
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I truly wish I could have served for 20 years. It was just too complicated being married to another sailor.
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Comment by Arwen on January 30, 2010 at 7:40pm
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I love my avatar, it's a detail from a piece of digital art I picked up over a decade ago. The whole scene is a castle patio overlooking a huge bay and moon going down. I always liked this lady and her cat, who I imagine is waiting for her sailor to come home. When Chris joined the Navy I thought it would be terribly appropriate as my avatar.
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I'm with clockard, we need emoticons in here, like the have in chat.
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If we're working with Jewish and Wiccan groups, obviously we're not the "proselytizing atheist" types.
But beware, by asking me to not talk about my atheism (although I really consider myself a secular Pagan) would I not also be within my rights to ask others to not talk about their Christianity/Judiasm/Wiccanism, etc?
It's a slippery slope I don't think any of us want to go down.
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Jill, I am a member of a group called Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers (MAAF), an organization dedicated to preserving religious freedom (the right to not be coerced into any religion or religious activities, no matter your own beliefs) in the military. It's currently run by an active duty Army MP stationed at Fort Hood who served in Iraq, and was previously run by an active duty Army officer who served in Kosovo and Afghanistan.
We're not fighting for anything new, just for the military to enforce the rules they already have in place.
This organization works closely with Mikey Weinstein, the Jewish cadet who fought against Fundamentalist Christian prostletization at the Air Force Academy. We also worked with the Wiccan group that won the right to have the Wiccan symbol on military gravestones, and other similar groups.
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Jill, I know my children were attracted to the military because my husband and I are both vets. We were attracted to the military through promise of adventure and a chance to do something tangible towards supporting our country. Now for our kids, frankly, a huge attraction is a job in an economy where jobs are hard to come by, and it comes with a paid ticket to college.
I also see an importance for liberals to be in the military to keep it from becoming completely under the control of the conservatives.
Liberals, I believe, are more likely to speak up when something isn't right (Abu Ghraib, etc) and make sure the military isn't running rampant. Conservatives, frankly, tend to "overlook" military transgressions. Just look at the current Navy SEAL trial and the hullabaloo the Fox conservatives are creating. Many of them would rather let our military torture prisoners and commit serious war crimes, then let them off without even a slap in the wrist, just because they are "our boys." Well, excuse me, but did it never occur to them that even our Red Blooded American (TM) boys and girls can commit terrible crimes too?
Sorry for the rant. I'm just frustrated by a recent conversation I had.
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I just learned of the "F** the troops" groups on Facebook. They say they are anti-war, but I do not care for the way they say it. Assclowns.
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Comment by abbyblue on December 26, 2009 at 2:44pm
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CHECK YOUR FRIENDS LIST THESE ARE NOT REAL MOMS
You have Kayleigh Hall and/or Gloria Lopez on your "Friends" list. We suspect their profiles are bogus. Please remove them ASAP by clicking on their profiles and clicking Remove as Friend. PLEASE PASS THIS ON GROUPS YOU BELONG TO.
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Tonya, wow, is that your husband/Nate's father on the right? If so, Nate is his "spitting image." I think he has your eyes, but the rest...
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