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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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Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Moms of Officers

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Future, current and past officers

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Latest Activity: Jun 21

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Comment by Glenni on September 19, 2017 at 4:57pm: It is so exciting reading where your sons are stationed! My son has always wanted to be a pilot, but after just a month in his ROTC unit, he is really open to the possibility that he could be"drafted" as a nuke. A couple of people have already said something to him about that possibility. One officer made a comment to him that "you can be a pilot with almost any major, but they want the really smart guys in the Nuke program." Since he is Aerospace engineering, it seems they are already "targeting" him...But the blessing is that he is really open to whatever lies ahead!

Comment by Noni on September 18, 2017 at 8:36pm: Congratulations Liz! My daughter is a SWO/ASWO/ED, and stationed in SD.

Comment by naturegirl1 on September 18, 2017 at 3:28pm: Congratulations to you and your son, Liz. My son is in Guam as a helicopter pilot. He loves it there. He will be there another year and a half. He does a lot of diving. He loves history, so visits the forts.

Comment by Helomom on September 18, 2017 at 2:20pm: Liz- The coolest part of our son's command tour was getting his challenge coin as a gift from him. It was a bucket list item I didn't realize I even wanted. His Master Chief gave me the Chief's Mess coin. When his career started 20 years ago I had no idea where it would lead.

Comment by M's mom on September 18, 2017 at 10:23am: Congrats Liz, to you & your officer!

My son is presently stationed in Japan, but he and his wife just got back from a vacation in Guam. They took a 3-day course to get certified in scuba diving, and then took a scuba tour to some wrecks and coral reefs. If your son would find that sort of thing exciting, it is available in Guam. The underwater pictures my son sent showed them in swimsuits, not scuba wetsuits. He said the water temp there was 84 degrees, so no need for wet suits!

Good luck to your son! The Navy is an adventure for the families as well as the sailors!

Comment by Liz on September 17, 2017 at 11:35pm: He's headed to Guam. He'll return for CEC School in California then go back to build the new Marine base.

Comment by CindyN on September 17, 2017 at 10:54pm: newmom - Yes there are definitely SWO moms in this group. My son is a SWO.

Comment by CindyN on September 17, 2017 at 10:52pm: Congratulations Liz, to both you and your son! The adventure begins. Ok, I guess that is "continues" as OCS was definitely an adventure as well. Where does your son go next?