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Navy For Moms

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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy Speak

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Mass Communication Specialist

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For those with Sailors who are MC's in "A" school or assigned a duty station.

Members: 107
Latest Activity: Oct 9, 2019

http://www.dinfos.osd.mil/index.asp

Mass Communication Specialists are concerned with public affairs and visual communication. Their role is to present the US Navy to Naval and civilian audiences, through a variety of media. MCs write and produce both print and broadcast journalism, including news and feature stories for military and civilian newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations. They record still and video photography of military operations, exercises, and other Navy events.

Great link from a guy who describes "A" School at FT Meade:
http://civiliantosailor.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html

More info for those of you who have sailors getting ready to head to FT Meade:
Go to the link http://www.dinfos.osd.mil/index.asp for DINFOS. There is an ACADEMICS Tab>Course Offerings. A list of classes appears for 2010. Above the list a paragraph with a link to ATRRS. Click on the link. You may be asked to authenticate the certificate. It is safe to do so. After following those directions a page will appear with drop down boxes. Fill in the boxes for Fiscal YR (20XX, the YR searching for), School Code (212), State (MD)>search courses. You can then select each course and see the details for when those classes start & end.

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Comment by michellep-div303-PIR09-10-10 on September 12, 2010 at 9:42pm: Thanks, Ladies! It was great to see him, even for just a few hours. He arrived at Ft Meade yesterday and has been out shopping with the others all day today. He seems very happy and I just couldn't be more proud!

I am wanting to send him a care package... Is that okay at this point? Any tips or pointers about what is and is not allowed?

Comment by michellep-div303-PIR09-10-10 on September 7, 2010 at 9:58pm: Thanks to all of you for all the info! The little brothers are 2 and 4 so they really wouldn't understand the changes and the sitting around doing nothing! We got the call today that he passed BS last night. We are so excited and can't wait to see him on Friday. He is really looking forward to A school, too.

Thanks to all of you for the welcome. I look forward to getting to know you all!

Comment by michellep-div303-PIR09-10-10 on September 2, 2010 at 12:01pm: Thanks stephs mom! We are so excited that he may be home for Christmas. We recently found out he is Grad and Go so we aren't expecting much time with him next week.

Comment by michellep-div303-PIR09-10-10 on September 2, 2010 at 10:27am: Hi Bonnie! Would love to pop over to FT Meade while Greg is there. We are in California, so I guess that's more than a "pop" but I've never been to the east coast and am dying to see him. There has been talk that they are allowed to come home for Christmas as the school closes for 2 weeks, but does anyone here know that? He has 2 little brothers he is dying to see and is kind of upset we aren't bringing them to PIR next week.

Comment by michellep-div303-PIR09-10-10 on September 1, 2010 at 2:46am: Hi everyone. My son is finishing bootcamp on September 10 and heading to FT Meade. I wanted to pop over and see what he has to look forward to.

Comment by MC Wife PIR9/10/10 SHIP9DIV302 on August 10, 2010 at 11:03pm: Oh wow! That's amazing! Hope my husband gets to take awesome pictures like that while he is out.

Comment by ridewaves on March 14, 2010 at 2:47am: Hi everyone, I'm currently a student at Fort Meade. I've got a blog about MC 'A' school that's definitely worth checking out.

http://www.usnavymc.blogspot.com