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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Comment by AUnavymom on July 7, 2016 at 7:37am: I am new to this group and wanted to say hello. My son went through a college ROTC program and after 41/2 year commission in Dec 2016. He is now station in Sasebo Japan and is on the USS Warrior. I love ready everyones adventures with their children.

Comment by CheriH on June 12, 2016 at 7:44am: Thanks a bunch! I found it. On my way to order!

Comment by Anna on June 11, 2016 at 9:01pm: Linda is right!! Here's the link:

http://www.buildasign.com/troops

They will make a free sign for servicemen/women returning home. Not sure if banners are free or not but their prices for service families is very reasonable!!

Comment by LindaB on June 11, 2016 at 10:50am: CheriH - I used BuildASign.com They did a very nice banner. The banner was free, but you had to pay a little if you wanted it to have the cords on it so you could tie it to something.

Comment by CheriH on June 11, 2016 at 10:33am: Need some help moms...I remember reading somewhere about a company that makes banners for Homecoming at a very reasonable price. And of course, I can't remember where. Anyone have that info? My husband is going on the Tiger Cruise and I get to join my DIL for the Homecoming. Thanks!

Comment by anniebananie55 on June 4, 2016 at 11:11am: Hi M's mom - my son is actually at Misawa Air Force base supporting a squadron of P-8s. He is working hard and enjoying the experience. I don't know if he will cross paths with your son there, but it could certainly happen in the future!

Comment by M's mom on June 3, 2016 at 11:34pm: anniebananie55: My son graduated in OCS class 16-12 in Sept 2012. After Intel School, he was stationed at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station near Seattle for 2 1/2 years, then spent 10 months in the Persian Gulf on the carrier USS Carl Vinson, and as of January, he has been stationed in Japan also!!! He and wife are at Yokota. Your son? Last week my son got to see Air Force One land at Yokota when Pres. Obama went to Japan for the G7 Summit.

That would be crazy if our sons were both at Yokota and know each other! When my son was at Whidbey Island, he worked intel with a squadron of Growler planes, and I connected here on N4M's with the mom of one of the pilots he worked with! The Navy community is a small world.

Comment by anniebananie55 on June 3, 2016 at 6:14pm: To M's Mom - my son ended up in Intelligence as well, OCS class 02-15. He is currently deployed to Japan. Where is your son?

Comment by M's mom on June 3, 2016 at 12:38am: T's momma: So sorry to hear of your son's medical DQ. Hope he can get a waiver. My son had a similar experience to anniebananie55's son in OCS. He passed TWO MEPS physicals with flying colors prior to starting OCS. He also went in as a pilot candidate. At OCS, he was given a "flight physical" which is apparently more rigorous, and they found that he has a minor heart valve anomaly, which is not life-threatening, but it DQ'd him for pilot or NFO. He was pretty upset, but was given a medical waiver to stay in the Navy and complete OCS, and he was able to transfer to Intelligence, which he enjoys.

Far be it for me to second guess the United States Navy, but it would be kinder to these patriotic young men and women to give them the flight physicals and go over their medical histories BEFORE they are ever accepted to OCS, to avoid dashing their hopes after they start.

It would also be nice if the military made it openly known what medications, etc. would DQ someone from the services. When my son was in elementary school, his teachers told us he should be on medicine for ADD. (In retrospect, I think he was just bored.) We knew that a friend's son had been refused admittance to the military because he had been on ADD meds, so we refused to medicate our son, in case he ever had military hopes. He did fine without, so I'm glad we refused. But we wouldn't have known that without our friend's experience, so it's frustrating that family physicians don't have this knowledge, so they can advise parents about medication choices. Just my humble opinion, Mr. Secretary of the Navy!

Comment by anniebananie55 on June 1, 2016 at 8:01pm: To T's momma - I am so sorry to hear about your son's disqualification. I am hoping that waiver will turn out to help him. My son went through something similar in his OCS experience in the fall of 2014. Three days from graduation, he was told he could not be a pilot because of a respiratory related issue from his early college days that they had known about since Day 1.. He was beyond devastated as were we and I felt so helpless being so far away. While it was one of the hardest thing he has had to go through so far, it turned out to be a very good experience, He was able to find another community and graduate with his class. He has been happy and successful and may always feel a bit cheated, but he has learned to deal with it. I encourage your son to talk to every medical professional he can find, talk to anyone in charge, find out what his other options could be. Can he get a waiver? Can he reapply at a later date? What else can the Navy do to support him/keep him in? If he made it this far, they obviously think he has something to offer the Navy. I will say a prayer for him and for you...