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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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Undesignated...What's Up With That?

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A place for Moms of Undesignated Sailors to share concerns and support each other.

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Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2022

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Comment by CrackerjackMom on September 3, 2010 at 1:13pm: Congratulations Oregonmom1 on your daughters PIR. And also to deborah on your daughter passing Battle Stations. Just PIR left for her.
Great Job by both of them.

Comment by Arwen on September 3, 2010 at 2:33am: I had a boyfriend (before I met my husband) who was on the USS Coral Sea when it was drydocked in Philadelphia. Yes, he spent 2 years on shore while assigned to her. It may not be what she wanted, but maybe she can strike for something that could take her to another assignment?

Also, as many ships as can get out to sea fast try to avoid being in port during a hurricane. Hurricane winds and storm surge batter ships against piers, destroying both. So they try to get out to sea before it gets too serious and head as far away from the storm as they can get.

Quite often they can get away from the storm's influence and experience fairly calm seas, other times they get quite a ride.

My husband was on a submarine. He laughs at hurricanes and typhoons, which don't affect deep waters where submarines hang out. He could have been under a Category 5 and never known it.

My son is a seaman and when he washed out of IT school he was offered aviation electronics school. So yes, you can go blue to green.

Comment by oregonmom1 (ship06/Div942pir9/2) on September 2, 2010 at 10:11pm: congrats Deborah. . My daughter just graduated today, what a proud amazing day. My Daughter, My Hero. It feels wonderful. Enjoy your PIR experience

Comment by Deborah (CTT son) on September 2, 2010 at 7:40pm: Thanks Lyn - Tuesday will be here before you know it. Going to light my candle until all our recruits go through Battle Stations.

Comment by LynB on September 2, 2010 at 7:37pm: Congratulations Deborah! She's a sailor :-) No input on her situation but so glad she's made it this far.

Comment by Deborah (CTT son) on September 2, 2010 at 7:06pm: Daughter just finished and passed Battle Stations - HooYah! But she told us that since she is undesignated Seaman she will be going to Great Lakes for her A school for 17 days then she said that she is to go to Norfolk, Virginia to the USS Theodore Rossevelt. I did a little search and found that this ship is dry docked until February 2013. Does that mean for the next 3 years she won't be going out to sea? Throughout this whole adventure that's all she's talked about was going to sea and she'd be heartbroken if she is land bound for the next 3 years.

Comment by CrackerjackMom on September 2, 2010 at 3:32am: Congratulations to our Molly for her "Molly's Adopt a Sailor" program on being a finalist and receiving the much needed money for shipping care packages to our wonderful troops.

Comment by Arwen on September 2, 2010 at 3:02am: Chris did arrive at Sasebo in his kilt, and he got some surprisingly appreciative comments about his choice of clothing. I think arriving in the middle of the night helped. He's going to put it away for a while, though.

Comment by Arwen on September 1, 2010 at 8:11pm: He does have 2 changes of clothes in his backpack, plus a uniform just in case his seabags are lost again. Since he was traveling so far, and has a LONG layover before his final (short) leg, he planned on showering (if possible), shaving and changing his clothes before reporting. He doesn't own any slacks, so I hope dark jeans and a polo are okay.

Comment by Arwen on September 1, 2010 at 4:34pm: Chris is in Japan by now. I have to wonder what the Navy thinks of a sailor reporting in a kilt? (when traveling overseas they aren't allowed to wear their uniforms)