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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 girlfriends or wives that have someone they love in the Navy.

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Latest Activity: Aug 20, 2020

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Comment by SailorMikeysGirl on June 16, 2010 at 1:52am: My boyfriend just graduated from Aschool in p-cola. We are planning on getting engaged as soon as he comes home from deployment in december. I love to plan ahead and its really hard to set dates or times or places for everything with how short noticed everything is, especially a school.. We waited forever to find out where he was going to be stationed next...we found out a few days before he graduated and a couple days after graduation he was back home! So just got to go with it :]

Comment by KReilly on June 15, 2010 at 7:26pm: Just got back home from PIR; so amazing to get to see my sailor. Now just another 5 months for a-school. Stay strong for our amazing sailors.

Comment by Michael's Girl on June 10, 2010 at 2:26pm: Hey all that are discussing the marriage topic! That is always on my mind! I'm like getting anxious for things to start happening with our life! I definitely want the actual ceremony and not a courthouse wedding first. We have been together for almost 6 years total and engagement is just around the corner... I'm hoping soon after A school or when he comes home from that before he gets stationed happen. He is in Texas right now, does anyone have a bf there as well?

Comment by EmilySanterre-VA on June 10, 2010 at 9:45am: I am glad someone brought up that subject of marriage! I thought I was the only one thinking about it day in and day out.
Me and Joey have been together for 4 years.We have decided(of course this is through letters-it is no way shape or form the set deal yet) to do a courthouse marriage in Pensacola when he is in A School there. Then do a large ceremony with everyone in attendance later on. And again,later on is very vague as well. We will not know any of this until he is stationed. We did think of going ahead and getting married on his leave from A school but I think it is to much for him in a 2 week span to get married,see friends and family and pack our stuff up(yet again) and move along our way.
I really really want to but have to keep his plans in mind to.I can not be to selfish!!
Anyone else having that same problem?

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on June 8, 2010 at 12:17am: Ballspa or something like that? Its on like the big part of NY. haha. If that makes any sense :)
He graduated boot on March 12th. Almost three months!
Dude. An air rescue swimmer retired Navy guy who had over 20 years in did my CPR/AED recert. at work (I'm a lifeguard at the Y). INTENSE. I thought I was gonna die when he started talking!

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on June 8, 2010 at 12:07am: Its in Goose Creek, SC. Really close to Charleston. I actually just got back from my first visit down there. I LOVED it, and can't wait to go back. Most of his schooling is down there... 6 months for A school. 6 months for Power school. And another 6 months for Prototype. But Prototype can be in SC or NY. Just depends :)

Where do the rescue swimmers go?

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on June 7, 2010 at 11:53pm: My boyfriends a Nuke. Woo. Lots of schooling. Timing kind of sucks for us. I'm trying to finish high school, and he'll be heading to his first command around the Spring of my Freshman year of college. Sooo. I'd love to move with him to his first command, but I think I might push through to get my degree first.. I've heard of some doing it in 2 1/2 years. That's my goal right now :)

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on June 7, 2010 at 11:15pm: What programs are your boyfriends in?

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on June 7, 2010 at 11:15pm: I like marriage talk. It's been happening to me, too. But I have another year to go... at least. Gotta finish high school first. Boo for being 17.

Comment by EmilySanterre-VA on June 7, 2010 at 10:32pm: You sound like you are in the same boat as me! 4 years as well,and LOTS of marriage talk. Isn't it exciting?! Congrats on surviving the first day!!

What ship and division is he in?