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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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Comment by helenp on April 7, 2015 at 8:42am: NavymomBarb: Yes, his onwing did recommend. He is seeing the Dr. for airsick meds today. What squadron is your DD in at Milton? Mine is VT6.

Comment by Kabar on April 6, 2015 at 9:39pm: DS just set off on his first deployment. I am hoping some of you can give me (and others) a few do's and don'ts for care packages. Specifically...has any one ever sent: juice boxes, plastic bottles of juice, small cans of fruit, or those "cake in a jar" that you can make in a canning jar. Thank you for sharing!

Comment by CheriH on April 3, 2015 at 6:15pm: Got to thinking about it...maybe they don't all have to do the spin and puke..maybe not if they are going maritime? Anybody know?

Comment by CheriH on April 3, 2015 at 1:39pm: helenp - the Navy is good at helping them get over it. My DS has had some airsickness with each new airframe. (Each new frame they go faster, do more spins and rolls, etc). He used the ginger, did the exercises and just got over it. They all have to do the spin and puke; I think that was between primary and advanced? I wouldn't worry about it...I'm sure that a few pilots can't get past it, but most likely your DS will.

Comment by helenp on April 3, 2015 at 11:44am: Thank you Jn/Jf Mom. Great idea to search. One Mom said her DS was helped by ginger. Makes sense. We always use ginger ale for upset stomachs.Yes, they apparently have a very high success rate with the spin & puke. Sounds wretched to me. (pun intended)

Comment by J/J Mom on April 3, 2015 at 11:11am: helenp -- i don't personally know any answers for you, but it made me curious, so i typed "airsick" into the search box above & some good discussions came up. Spin & puke sounds awful, except that it apparently does it's job & helps future pilots become pilots!!

Comment by helenp on April 3, 2015 at 9:35am: Please tell me about experiences with airsickness. My DS is in Basic Flight Training at Whiting in Milton. He said airsickness is common and the Navy is good at helping people to overcome it. He had his first two flights this week and got airsick in both. So he is grounded until he sees the doctor for airsick medication. He says the next step would be the "spin & puke."