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 lori on August 15, 2010 at 9:13pm
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Hi Joanne, my son has been in GL since April when he grad. He's an ET. I noticed you live in Fred. Not far from us.
I didn't open his box for 2 weeks. And then I think the 'ripe' smell coming from it made me finally get to it! LOL! So i missed out on 'his' smell as everything had to go in the wash pronto. Don't you miss the letters. It's not the same getting a random phone call. I loved reading what he wrote and he wasn't a letter writer.
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At least she's waiting for you!
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That bothered me too. I asked my son to get me names but he never did. When we went into the city after PIR we took some sailors who didn't have any family with them and they just became part of 'our' family that day.
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Oh Cindy that's great! I know that put a smile on your face!
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one big happy family!
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Cindy- these are great! What a support team Paul has! Must have blown the MEPS people away. There were a lot of kids with out anyone there to see them off... and Paul had a whole crew!
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My Paul went to Ft. Meade as well. The place were they get sworn in was smaller than I thought it was going to be. How neat for your guy to have all his buddies there. Glad you got your call.... now the 'kid in the box'...
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Comment by Crystal-ship06-PIR9/2/10-DIV942 on August 10, 2010 at 6:45am
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aww Cindy..Im glad he had all that suport...first you'll get the box of clothes which he left in.then youl get the form letter with his address and grad/PIR info...good luck to him...and you
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Debbie, what a horrible ordeal for him. Glad he's with you now.
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Cindy- how are you doing now... back from MEPS? The house will seem a lot quieter and your grocery bills a lot less now! I also have a Paul. Where was your MEPS station?
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