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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Undesignated...What's Up With That?
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A place for Moms of Undesignated Sailors to share concerns and support each other.
Members: 458
Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2022
Discussion Forum
Nothing Wrong with Undesignated Sailor!
Started by David B. Last reply by NavyBrat Oct 29, 2017. 55 Replies 17 Likes
So I am freaking out a bit!
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Undes 2017
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Comment by Arwen on March 4, 2011 at 10:30pm
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My son is on the USS Denver.
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Comment by CrackerjackMom on March 4, 2011 at 1:15pm
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Tara always wanted food, snacks, magazines. She was not into toys. Same goes for my son, and for him there is even less room on a sub.
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Comment by FirstSailor on March 3, 2011 at 2:03am
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Hi Arwen and Rdcryer, this is Michelle. My son is going to USS Tortuga. Which ship is your love one on?
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Oh, to finish that last post (I didn't mean to hit enter), I stopped sending him mail. If he stops getting letters, maybe he will actually take the initiative. I'm not counting on it, though. He's his uncle's nephew. My MIL tells me that my BIL went two years without contacting her - and that she finally had to call his command to contact him.
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rdcryer, your son must be in the same group as my son, he's been in the same places (according to the Navy news sites - he never calls).
Chris is trying for the near-impossible, to get back into the school he was dropped from (IT). I heard the Navy changed that school entirely, from a 14-week school to a 2-year school! I'm not entirely sure why such a huge change, but it's still what he wants. He discussed a couple of other options (Seabee, gunner's mate), but once he got to his ship and saw what they really do, he decided those possibilities were not what he wanted after all.
The total lack of contact is hard, he simply doesn't call, he doesn't check his email or facebook, and I learned that he doesn't open mail. One of the few times he did call, he admitted that he had a stack of mail I sent him that he "didn't have time to read." If I know him, every off-duty minute is spent gaming (video or D&D) or watching anime/reading manga.
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Hi arwen, he is going to USA tortuga. Michelle
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Misyu2, my son is also at Sasebo, which ship will your son be reporting to? You should check the Japan Moms group. Most of the ships also have groups here.
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Hi, yes, my son is undesignated and now it is his 2nd week in GL after his PIR on 2/11. He will come home after another week, then he will report to Sasebo, Japan in late March. ~ Michelle
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Comment by Amymichelle09(Ship 12,Div. 100) on February 25, 2011 at 2:19am
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Thank you so much. Y'all have been the most helpful out of everyone that I know! Even the people that I asked that are not on this site! Even my brother who was in the Navy lol:)
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Yes, that's how it was for Tara also, and she went in as undesignated,
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