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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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Comment by CindyN on June 20, 2017 at 9:11am

My husband sent me this post by a co-admin from the NavyForDads site:

"Please understand that this is a rare occurrence. The crew saved the ship, and as many of their shipmates as possible. One man was diving back in to berthing to pull out as many as he could, until all the air pockets were gone. By all accounts, those we lost did not suffer.

Here are the official organizations who are helping the crew, as about 100 sailors lost everything, down to their wallets:

We are all part of this Navy family whether you still have a son or daughter serving or not. If it's in your means to donate, please do so.

Thank you. Please say a prayer for the crew of the USS Fitzgerald."

Comment by Noni on June 19, 2017 at 5:47pm
Alaskan Mom
My daughter is also a LT, she was trying to explain it all to my husband and I. I asked could a cargo ship turn its course within 25 minutes, which this one did and you not know its heading for you. She said there wasn't enough time for this to happen. The radar dosent show a this turning. It shows movement but might have been to close. Our SWOS hold the life's of everyone on the ship. I pray for the OD and the parents of the OD that night, and all of crew that was on board.
Comment by Noni on June 19, 2017 at 1:39pm
Has anyone talked to there officer about this situation. I have due to she had to do her SWO and is doing ASWO now until she leaves for engineering school. I found it to be very interesting at what she had to say
Comment by Noni on June 19, 2017 at 1:37pm
Please do not fund any Go Fund Me pages. The Red Cross is working with the families and sailors. To recover there losses. Prayers go out to these families and the LOS
Comment by M's mom on June 19, 2017 at 1:13pm

GalleyMom:  Good advice from the Ombudsman. Thanks for posting.  There are always scumbags out there who make money off of people's generosity after a tragedy.

Comment by M's mom on June 19, 2017 at 8:45am

Moms:  Lets all keep the crew of the USS Fitzgerald in our hearts and prayers, especially the families of the seven sailors who were killed, and the injured including the Commanding Officer, because of the tragic collision over the weekend.   If you didn't hear what happened, google "USS Fitzgerald."   I talked to my son who is stationed at Yokota, which is about 45 miles from Yokosuka, the home port of the Fitzgerald, and he said the entire US Navy community in Japan is understandably upset. Such a tragedy.  My heart goes out to the families.

Comment by M's mom on June 1, 2017 at 12:33pm

Helomom:  Congrats to your son!   My son is working on his Master's degree.  He is in Intel, and he considered getting his master's in Homeland Security, but instead is working on a degree in International Relations.  Before he went to Japan, he spent a semester studying East Asian Studies at the Navy Post-Graduate School in beautiful Monterey, CA.  (Tough duty assignment, but he did it in service to his country, of course!)  haha

Comment by Helomom on May 31, 2017 at 11:21pm
Hi M's mom - He just finished his extended command tour in March and should make 0-6 during this current set of orders. He's on a desk now at CNAF making use of that Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies. We were at the base for the deactivation ceremony of the squadron at the end of his command. It was really moving.
Comment by M's mom on May 31, 2017 at 11:04pm

Helomom:  Your son should be getting close to being a REAL Captain by now, if not one already!   Is he still flying, or just "piloting a desk" now, as they say?  I know it is somewhat of a disappointment to some pilots to be promoted to a command position and not get to fly anymore. 

Comment by Helomom on May 31, 2017 at 10:03pm
M's mom - In 2001 when our son was an 0-3 (Lieutenant) and in flight school he was always assigned a Marine Corp 0-3 instructor during Primary. It was intended to psych him out when he had to call his instructor Captain. They thought it was pretty funny.
 

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