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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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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Moms of Daughters 2

A place to come to for support, guidance, to ask questions and share stories. We are all proud of our Navy Daughters.

Members: 1351
Latest Activity: Jun 7

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Discussion Forum

Care packages for new graduates (a school)

Started by Cali's mama. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Mar 19, 2021. 3 Replies

Looking for current information for my daughter on what's allowed for care packages..idk if it matters that she is in the great lakes location or not..ship 7 div 136...lonely mom with confused tears lol

Bootcamp arrival Sept 8, 2020??

Started by Stephanie0725. Last reply by Shoosh Oct 5, 2020. 4 Replies

Hello! Got the call that my daughter made it to bootcamp quarantine last night 09/08/2020.  Looking for other moms out there on the same timeline. Sadie is my baby, only daughter, and only child in the military.  I think I am going to need lots of…Continue

PIR DATE: December 13, 2019

Started by Donita. Last reply by Donita Nov 5, 2019. 5 Replies

Anyone else’s recruit have a PIR date ofDecember 13, 2019?Continue

Arrived at boot camp October 2nd

Started by Donita. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Nov 5, 2019. 26 Replies

Hey everyone- my daughter left for boot camp October 2nd. I missed a call from her last Friday telling me that her graduation is December 13th. I feel like the worst mom in the world for missing her call. Really didn’t expect her to call so soon but…Continue

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Comment by JayDee659 on June 21, 2018 at 10:30am

txnavymom it absolutely isn't college.  First we deal with the fact that they're just gone, no voice, no text, nothing.  Then it hits us that they'll be out there on the front lines one day.  Ugh.  I found that I spent less time with my friends whose children went to college because they just couldn't grasp it.  On the plus side, I made some incredible friends here and spend lots of time in the gym and walking my dogs.  My trainer told me Tuesday that she estimates that I've put on about 8# of muscle in the last 2 years.  Now if only I could get rid of that resistant fat in my midsection...

Comment by txnavymom0917 on June 21, 2018 at 10:21am

Jayde659- it it me hard when they left. i was hit with the whole ' omg this crap is for real, this for real, my son & daughter are in the military* what in the sam hell just happened? this is serious no wonder why i am a wreck

military is not college like civilians think it is write back soon 

Comment by JayDee659 on June 21, 2018 at 10:11am

txnavymom0917, you're so right!  Having a community that understands makes all the difference.  While I wanted to talk to others about my daughter being away, I just couldn't.  Navy is not college and I'd end up crying my eyes out.  People thought (and probably still think) that was I crazy.  

Unfortunately my house is not cleaner.  My husband took over where my sailor left off - ugh!  The other day I went up to sailors room to clean it up and sat there crying.  She's been in 3 years in August! When we talked she said that she'd clean it but her sister got 5 years so she wants 5 years to.  Sold.

Comment by txnavymom0917 on June 21, 2018 at 10:05am

good mornin ya'll! i've read over the below comments and boy it sure helps knowing that us moms are going thru similar feelings i thought i was the only one that could get through 1 hour at a time when both my sailors left for BC. When someone asked me how they were doing/have i heard from them, holding back those hot tears was the hardest:) but i have to say that each passing day was just a tiny bit better than the day before. i also gave myself a pep talk when i would become overwhelmed with so many emotions. i would tell myself well atleast the house will stay clean longer, i can eat out all the time, don't have to cook, my laundry area will be nice and tidy etc that helped too LOL stay positive strong and humble wrote those letters, we got this navy mom thing every day all day! praying for yall! 

Comment by JayDee659 on June 21, 2018 at 10:01am

Oleander, didn't your daughter stay in GL for A School?  Brenda's daughter thought she might get to come home after BC (she's staying in GL also).  What do you remember?

Anna, can you weigh in on this one?

Comment by JayDee659 on June 21, 2018 at 8:54am

MalsMom is right, the PIR groups are essential for staying in touch and knowing what is going on!  

Writing letters kept me occupied too.  I would write every day, several times a day.  It was almost like having a conversation with her, without the smarty pants response from her :).

Comment by MalsMom on June 21, 2018 at 8:51am

Navymom18 - It was so hard at first! It helped me to write letters.  It also helped to follow what they were doing every week.  Join her PIR group when it is available. Hang in there!

Comment by spyder013 on June 20, 2018 at 8:23pm
Yep, definitely;)
Comment by JayDee659 on June 20, 2018 at 8:07pm

I think I heard from my daughter more during her first deployment than during boot camp. Those phones with the delay are hard to get used to though. 

Comment by spyder013 on June 20, 2018 at 8:03pm
Definitely a roller coaster! Just make sure to always have a phone on you, because you never know when they will call. Even more important when they are deployed. They can occasionally Skype or whatever:).
 

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