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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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For Moms with Aviators or anyone interested

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Latest Activity: Feb 3

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Comment by Paymaster on February 12, 2010 at 3:10pm: Alll...If you are a collector of all Navy things, the Post Office has just put out 4 stamps of Navy hero's.

I plan to put mine in a frame for my son.

Just thought I'd share.

Comment by newfmom on February 12, 2010 at 2:56pm: Maybe I should try SERE I've been trying to lose 8 lbs FOREVER!!!!! LOL

Kidding aside, Congrats to Rachel!!!! Can't wait to have a pinning story of my own!!!!!

Comment by AH on February 11, 2010 at 4:36pm: We have a very small family and my husband is the photographer in the family. He was taking pictures while pinned on the wings. There was also the photographer that the Navy had there. The Commander was joking while I was pinning on the wings that my husband had a bigger lens than the formal photographer. Got a pretty good laugh out of everyone. Dad was so focused on taking pictures that he didn't hear it.

Comment by Julie on February 11, 2010 at 4:27pm: A moment you will treasure forever. When our son was winged- he asked me to pin on the wings and for his sister and dad to attach the pins underneath. Needless to say my husband dropped the attachment and little sister had to take over. We have a candid of everyone laughing at that point- priceless!!

Comment by Growlermom711 on February 11, 2010 at 10:17am: it is so nice to finally have other Moms that have sons at Whidbey. When my son was there the last time(this is his second set of orders to Whidbey), I had no one to bounce things off of, and since we live 3000 miles away in NY, news was not regular.Now I feel like other Moms are going through the same things!

Comment by Diane2557 on February 11, 2010 at 10:11am: Hi everyone. Finally back ... busy moving my daughter and her family back home with us. Reviewed the last few days of postings and I'm excited to hear that there are other moms with sailors at NAS Whidbey Island...DJ, Alice and Whipraycaye (any others?)...maybe we should form a sub-group: mom's of Prowler/Growlers!

Heard from my son at Whidbey last Thursday. He was on a pure adrenaline rush...he had his first real emergency landing with the Prowler. His safe landing (with tailhook) is a true testament to the great training the Navy gives our pilots. He's just about done with his training and will start bouncing soon.

Comment by Helomom on February 11, 2010 at 1:46am: lsP3Orion mom - My son put little faint pencil marks on his uniform so I would get the wings pinned on correctly and he had cardboard taped to the inside of his uniform so all I had to do was line up the dots and push them on. It was summer and he was in his whites, I don't know what the plan would have been if he had been wearing his SDBs.

Comment by newfmom on February 10, 2010 at 9:11pm: Thank you all for such a great welcome. Conratulations to all of your children. Sometimes I look back and can't believe how hard it was for my son to get THIS far-and he's just beginning. So I am living through all of your joys and it carpets a road for me to follow. I can almost "read" your smiles when you discuss their accomplishments. That is why this board is so great. The "outside" world just doesn't understand how HARD they have worked and continue to do so. My friends thought they just "flew" a little plane every day. They don't know about the daily "study, study, study", the constant pressure but it's what makes them THE BEST !!!! Stay warm everybody-VERRRRY tired of snow here in NY

Comment by Paymaster on February 10, 2010 at 4:30pm: Leslie....Mardi Gras is the best in Mobile!!! Use to live on the gulf coast and have been to balls both in Mobile and New Orleans. Mobile's was best by far!

And no I do not have pictures of any of us on my page, just a quilt I made, boring.....

Kathy B...congrats on Rachel finishing SERE!! It should like it should be Spa day for her somewhere for reward for going through all of that!

Comment by lsP3Orion on February 10, 2010 at 2:56pm: Something about being in uniform that does keep them in line :) I'd like to go to a Mardi Gras ball sometime - I'll bet it's pretty wild!

Leslie, I'd say send me the pattern for the cross-stitch, but there's no way I'd ever finish it while my son is in the Navy - still working on a Xmas stocking for our granddaughter, who is now 6 - that's been a long project, started that about 4 years ago, but this might be the year! I think I will buy the pictures instead.