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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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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**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:

RTC Graduation

**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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Louisiana Moms

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Louisiana moms group was established 7/8/2008. We now have a place to say hello. What city are you from. What is your sailor or recuit doing? When is PIR or where is their A school. Are they deployed already? Who else is from Louisiana?

Members: 77
Latest Activity: Jan 13, 2020

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Comment by camenae on February 7, 2011 at 6:05pm: Hi Cat! That's so cool! Everything IS going good for him. He has received a ribbon for his uniform and he's getting an award at the PIR rehearsal Thursday night. I could tell he was very proud of himself :)

Comment by catdel86 on February 7, 2011 at 12:06pm: Hi Camenae, I'm from the lafayette area, my son graduates this Friday also. I saw your husband at the swearing in on Dec. 8th, It looks like every thing is going good for him. Good luck and congratulations!

Comment by camenae on February 6, 2011 at 3:06am: Hi everyone! I live in Slidell. My husband is from Covington.

Netlas, my husband graduates this Friday.

Comment by Hannahs Mom on January 12, 2011 at 11:38pm: Hey ladies, I would love to be a part of the Meet and Greet. I live in Shreveport, so if we want to do it on a weekend I can make the trip. Just knowing that we might be getting together is comforting. I hope everyones loved one gets through BC and their A School successfully. God Bless to all of you

Comment by rosie on January 2, 2011 at 4:20pm: Hi y'all
My son just left today on the USS halliburton for 8 months, it is his first deployment. Just wondering of the best things I can mail to him...all suggestions would b welcomed! Wondering if there is a USS halliburton group.

Godspeed to all our sailors till they are home with their loved ones!

Comment by Sugarscoop (ship 12 Div 038) on November 15, 2010 at 1:35pm: Thanks Meloney...I will try and remember your saying, I love it!

Comment by Sugarscoop (ship 12 Div 038) on November 15, 2010 at 8:03am: wow msmom! Superbowl with your son? What a wonderful memory. I'm doing wonderful now. Got a call yesterday for 11 minutes and 32 seconds :) I've heard that was pretty lucky for only being 10 days in. He sounds wonderful and it sure did make me feel so much better. It's crazy not knowing how they are making out. He has a little cold but he says he is doing fine. His body is sore but knows it'll just get better as time goes by. I did not get my box because he just wanted to discard his clothes. He left his cell phone at home .Did not question it. I thought he just couldn't take his phone that far. I missed out on talking to him while he flew to GL. We did spend the afternoon with him at the airport. Thanks for the info..it helps so much. Don't know what I would do without this site.
Wow Japan...so far away. How are you doing? Do you get to receive emails and phone calls? Go Saints, LSU and Hornets!

Comment by msmom on November 12, 2010 at 11:50pm: Hi Sugarscoop! I drive between Baton Rouge, where I work, and New Orleans. I dropped my son off at Metairie hotel Wednesday after we won Superbowl in Feb (he and I went to Miami for the game). I remember every moment of that Wednesday night.
There will many moments along the way that you will feel like you are about to lose it because you miss him, but many more moments that you will be filled with pride in him.
Did you get the 'kid in a box' yet?
We all cry when that comes and can't imagine what he is wearing because it is as if he stripped everything he had on and brought with him into that box. Rest assured that the Navy issues him nice, soft, warm clothes. The box worried me a great deal.
He won't be able to call you very often and the calls will be brief.
Plan to go up to GL for his PIR. He will send you information as soon as it is available. It is your first chance to see and hug him in person.
Write here any time. I try to keep up with my groups. We all cry together and then smile when we talk to them.
My son is in Japan for about one month now and is adjusting to life on board a destroyer...would sure like to see some friendly faces to support him while he roots on LSU, Saints and Hornets.

Comment by Sugarscoop (ship 12 Div 038) on November 4, 2010 at 5:16pm: I live in Slidell and I just left the airport. My son is headed to G.L. and I'm trying not to lose it.

Comment by Fleur de lis Mom on August 22, 2010 at 4:48pm: I know that the Ruston unit is scheduled to go. They were informed very recently, I think another unit is going also. We have a friend's son that is currently in Iraq - he volunteered to go with another unit; he will be going with his unit to A'stan in May.

We have another friend that is a Chaplin in the La Guard - they did a joint project with the Navy in Haiti this past spring.