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

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:

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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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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Military Deals & Freebies

 

Links and information on deals for our Military

Active Duty, Reserves, Veterans.

Also links anyone can use as well as links with information.

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Comment by Suzi-OH on April 14, 2011 at 7:59pm

http://www.operationhomelink.org/

Operation Homelink™ provides refurbished computers to the spouses or parents of junior enlisted (E1 –E5) U.S. deployed service men and women enabling email communication with their loved one deployed overseas. We offer this service on behalf of our donor corporations as a way to demonstrate their support of our brave men and women serving our country.

Comment by Suzi-OH on April 14, 2011 at 7:51pm

 

http://www.mcsf.org/

The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation is the nation’s oldest and largest need-based scholarship organization supporting U.S. military families. Since 1962, the Foundation has provided 25,000 scholarships valued at more than $60 million, including $4,250,000 to more than 1,400 students for the 2010-2011 academic year. 
Comment by Suzi-OH on April 14, 2011 at 7:48pm

Air Compassion for Veterans
http://www.aircompassionforveterans.org/request.html

ACV is the essential link that provides free air transportation

for our wounded warriors and their families to access

the services and programs that will provide them

with healing and restoration.

WE GET THEM THERE!

Comment by Suzi-OH on April 14, 2011 at 7:43pm

http://www.neads.org/

Canines for Combat Veterans, a program from NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans in Princeton, MA began 2 years ago after NEADS was invited to do an in-service at Walter Reed Medical Center to demonstrate the different tasks an Assistance Dog is able to perform for returning wounded Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Comment by Suzi-OH on April 14, 2011 at 7:27pm

http://www.ourmilitarykids.org/

Our Military Kids provides substantial support in the form of grants to the children of National Guard and Military Reserve personnel who are currently deployed overseas, as well as the children of Wounded Warriors in all branches. The grants from Our Military Kids pay for participation in sports, fine arts, camps, and tutoring programs that nurture and sustain children while a parent is away in service to our country or recovering from injury.

Comment by Suzi-OH on April 14, 2011 at 7:11pm

http://www.astorybeforebed.com/military

Here is a special freebie for all the parents serving in the US Armed Forces. Parents who are members of one of the branches of the U.S. Armed Forces who are deploying or already deployed away from their children for any amount of time are eligible to sign up for free recordings from A Story Before Bed.

Here’s how to send your own bedtime greeting…

Head over here to fill out the form to apply. You will receive an e-mail confirming your subscription to their newsletter. Click on the link in the confirmation e-mail and they’ll be in touch with your free recordings. That’s all there is to it.

Comment by Suzi-OH on April 14, 2011 at 6:46pm

Here's to Heroes -

http://www.herosalute.com/cavatx/index.html

 

"We are proud to salute the men and women of our armed forces and their families. Throughout 2011, members of the military and as many as three direct dependents may enter SeaWorld, Busch Gardens or Sesame Place parks with a single-day complimentary admission."
Comment by Suzi-OH on April 14, 2011 at 6:24pm

Guitars For Vets - http://guitars4vets.org/

 

Guitars For Vets (G4V) provides six free private lessons and a new acoustic guitar to military Veterans at VA medical and community-based Vet centers. All veterans are referred to us by the VA medical team in order to integrate the Guitars For Vets program into their treatment regimen. The private lessons are taught by volunteer instructors and are then followed by group sessions that provide a forum for the veterans to talk and play music with like-minded individuals, many of whom have had the same experiences, emotions and traumas. The music sessions provide a communal atmosphere. This has proven to be a catalyst that helps the Vets continue on their road to recovery and well being.

"Upon graduation, each Vet in the program is presented a guitar, gig bag, strap, tuner, method book and a certificate of completion. The testimonials throughout the website capture what it has meant to some of the Vets participating in our program."
Comment by Suzi-OH on April 14, 2011 at 6:22pm

AdoptaPlatoon Soldier Support Effort - www.adoptaplatoon.org/site

A wonderful group of people around the world supporting our military in every branch of the service.

You can get a pen pal or support a platoon....you can also request support for your platoon, division, squadron, etc...

Comment by Suzi-OH on April 14, 2011 at 6:20pm

The Soldiers Project -

http://www.thesoldiersproject.org/

"We are a group of licensed mental health professionals who offer free psychological treatment to military service members (active duty, National Guard, Reserves and veterans) who have served or who expect to serve in the conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan."
 

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