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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Comment by carol on August 9, 2015 at 9:08pm
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Amy, You will stay in my prayers. Come when you can to a get together. They are always fun. Take care and thanks for letting us know. So glad that your son was home!!
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Comment by SaltyMama on August 9, 2015 at 9:03pm
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Amy, I'm so sorry to hear about your diagnosis. Please keep us posted on your progress. Prayers to you and yours. Thanks for letting us know about the Facebook gathering on Saturday.
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Comment by Michelle0120 on August 9, 2015 at 8:14pm
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AmyS, I am sorry for all you are going through. my prayers are with you and your family. Stay strong and lean on your Navy moms for support when needed. I look forward to meeting you at a future MN navy mom event. Thank you for all of the info. God bless
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Comment by AmyS on August 9, 2015 at 7:59pm
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Welcome to the new moms! I missed my son's 'I'm here' call when he got to boot camp but he called his dad's phone right after so we knew he got there. Good kid that he is he also borrowed his phone to fellow recruits so they could call their family.
Update on my family, my husband did not want a funeral so we spread his ashes on his grandparents graves and then had a gathering at the house a couple days later. My sailor was home for three weeks and it did a world of good for all of us. I brought him to the airport last Monday and he was flown out to his boat the next morning as it was already underway. Much to my happy surprise I got a call from him today as they had a swim call. Granted it was only a two minute call, but you all know that two minutes feels like a lifetime :)
Update on me, on June 12 I was diagnosed with breast cancer but with everything going on with my husband I had to put things on hold. I really want to make the lunch this week as I really need a Navy Mom meet up, but I don't think it's going to happen as my surgery will be within the next week or so and I have to get things in order at work and home.
Facebook Navy Moms is having a meet up at Psycho Suzies on the 15th at 1pm, never been there but looks like a fun place to go to.
Another post on the Facebook page is a gathering at Veterans Park in Richfield on September 19. A potluck for all family members, not just moms. No times set yet, details to come. I will try to update as details are available, sounds like a good time too.
You all take care!
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@ Michelle0120......You're welcome! Glad you are here! :) It's so good to have Mom support!
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Thanks Kassie!
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Hooray! Your son made it ok to the RTC and You have your first letter written! I'd call that a GOOD day! Have a good night's sleep! You did a great job being a Navy Mom! You'll probably want to buy stock in the Kleenex company...I sure needed a few those first few weeks. LOL
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Just got the 1st 30 second phone call! He sounded very strong and confident. :)
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Thanks everyone! You guys will be a great support system. Kassie, I already wrote my first letter! Lol.
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Hi Michelle0120....I was in your shoes on March 18, 2015! I was sitting around at home waiting for the 'I'm ok!" 30-second call! We live in St. Cloud, MN, and had lived near the Great Lakes RTC when my Navy son was younger. You are in my prayers and hope we can connect sometime soon. :) Start writing a letter to him now...and you'll have one ready to go when you get the 'letter' with his address and graduation date. I numbered each letter so when he got a whole bunch at once, he knew in what order I wrote them. Write about what's going on in the news, sports, hometown, and remember to tell him how proud you are of him....MANY times! It was good for me...to let him know that I was thinking of him...and to help with my nervous waiting! (That happens a LOT in the first two weeks!) You'll get through it...and so will your son! :)
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