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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Comment by Diane2557 on July 10, 2016 at 11:48am: AUnavymom and others...it's been a while since I posted, however I do get the messages. My son and his wife graduated from AU in 2005 and he was commissioned into the Navy. Today he is an EA-18G (Electronic Warfare) Top Gun pilot. AND he and his wife and two children are living on base at NAS Atsugi Japan! He is assigned to the USS RR there in the Tokyo area. They dropped their German Shepard off with us last August, went home to Whidby Island, packed up and waited for their orders. They final left Nov 1 and and should be there through 2017. It is so nice to know there are other moms with their children there as well.

Comment by M's mom on July 8, 2016 at 9:08pm: Chris: Sounds like your son has had quite a career so far! What does he fly? My son was at Oceana for intelligence school. Nice area.

I'm not familiar with all the Navy acronyms yet. What does OCONUS stand for?

Comment by Chris on July 8, 2016 at 11:28am: Reading these posts got me thinking about the places my son has "worked" while in the Navy. He was born and raised in Virginia. Great lakes in January for boot camp. Goose Creek (Charleston) SC for Nuke school. Ballston Spa NY for prototype and SPU (he asked for this one). Newport Rhode Island for NSI. Back to Charleston for school. Spain and Germany for summer courses. Pensacola for flight school, Meridian MS for more flight school, Key West for CQ, and now Oceana (home!) for a few years.

Throw in a few dets to El Centro CA, Maine (SERE), a few cross countrys to Tennessee, Virginia, etc., and a fellowship in Philly.

Ten years so far, all at various training commands! First OCONUS deployment should come 2017-2018.

They get around to say the least.

Comment by Helomom on July 7, 2016 at 6:48pm: BuckeyeMom- Yes, the spouses groups are really great! My DIL has worked with great groups in every area they have been stationed. One of the great things about Navy life is the way they all take care of each other. DS is at the 19 year mark in his career, DIL has known him from the beginning of this Navy ride. They have been married 13 years, two kids, 10 moves, and lots of missed birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries. Navy spouses are a special breed.

Comment by LindaB on July 7, 2016 at 6:46pm: My son's first deployment was just a little short of 11 months, and the worst part was they were "surged" early with very little notice and, for a long time, didn't know when the deployment would end. This was on the Mesa Verde in 2011-12. The good part was he found out the ship would be in Italy for maintenance for about a week midway through the deployment, and we were able to meet him there. We had about two weeks' notice, but we made it work.

Comment by kmaidaho on July 7, 2016 at 4:16pm: BuckeyeMom: Encourage your DIL to really engage in the spouse's group so she can get the support she needs. Our niece's husband is in the Air Force and everywhere they have been stationed, she has developed a strong network of friends/support. She was chronically ill when they were stationed in Belgium and never would have made it without the help of those other military families. But, you do have to invest yourself. I'm worried about my new DIL too, as we have heard that DS will be traveling a lot from Spain for training in the US.

Comment by M's mom on July 7, 2016 at 3:24pm: kmaidaho: Idaho vs Florida would be quite a climate change. I know a kid who did the opposite. He grew up in Hawaii, then enlisted in the Navy, and got sent to Great Lakes (Chicago) for enlisted basic training in the middle of the winter!!! He just about froze to death, to hear him tell it! haha

Comment by M's mom on July 7, 2016 at 3:18pm: BuckeyeMom: Yes, the spouses groups are so helpful. My DIL found lots of support with the spouses of my son's unit during his deployment. For instance, they all got together and had a carry-in Thanksgiving dinner, and a Christmas party, and a New Year's party, and even an Easter celebration for the ones who had little kids. My son's squadron missed all of those holidays that year!

Comment by kmaidaho on July 7, 2016 at 2:16pm: I just love reading all of these comments! It is quiet around here sometimes...

DS was in NROTC at the University of Idaho and Commissioned in December 2014. He's been in Florida since then going through the EOD pipeline. Was home for Christmas, which was so fun and amazing...he definitely misses Idaho and the cool weather/snow/seasons. He was back home for a few days in May in order to get married!! Another fun and amazing event in the life of this mom. His EOD graduation is at the end of August and we will be traveling to Florida to see the ceremony. Florida...August...should be pleasant, huh? He has orders for Rota, Spain in November.

Comment by BuckeyeMom on July 7, 2016 at 2:16pm: August til June is a long deployment! I am hoping that my DIL finds the support that she need there. She has joined a spouses group that meets once a month. I worry about her...