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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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NAVY HISTORY

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List any links to historic Navy websites and any announcements to shows on TV prior to airing.

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Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023

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Comment by CCR on November 16, 2008 at 4:26pm: Hi Sue! WE all love museums and since our children are in the Navy, I, for one, have immersed myself in learning history facts as a way to absorb myself into supporting my son.

I found this as I was searching for flag images on google to add to my welcome home banner. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.paulsilverstone.com/Images/books/us-navy-1945-shad.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.paulsilverstone.com/books/&usg=__iSZTjg0i_yTe4kI8iN_L8IVN02M=&h=534&w=424&sz=30&hl=en&start=37&tbnid=Kz8AsyRgE1EdvM:&tbnh=132&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3Du%2Bs%2Bnavy%26start%3D20%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Whoa, that was long!

Comment by CCR on November 13, 2008 at 11:55pm: OK, so its the complete history, not just the RTC. The book I showed is so exciting. It show John PHillip Sousa and how he was the Navy's band leader at the time!

Comment by CCR on November 13, 2008 at 11:53pm: Paige, that was a great link! The simpler the better.
Connie, you know better than to ask me that. I just ride along.
I will see everyone at Thanksgiving though, and I'll ask my dad and brother.

Comment by carols_kitchen on November 6, 2008 at 5:12pm: Hi--did anyone watch the PBS special last night on
Medal of Honor?
It was very thought provoking. So few have been awarded during these days.

Comment by CCR on November 5, 2008 at 4:16pm: wait a minute. Is that a sub instead? My eyes are bad.

Comment by CCR on November 5, 2008 at 4:15pm: OK Connie, there's gonna be a test. Tell me what those 3 airplanes are - (and I'll have to go ask my dad, LOL!) I'd love to know the carrier too, maybe my brother knows, I'll ask him.

Comment by CCR on November 5, 2008 at 4:13pm: Cool. Air Force is good Connie, I shall share it with my father.
Hi Carol, Marilyn and Paige. There you are!!!! Hey, girls!
BTW, is this the book? You said history of the navy. This is just a history of the GL Naval Training Station. I could not put the book down until I read it all! Yes I had a brother and 2 cousins in the Navy, but my Uncle was in the Navy and another Uncle (army) died over in the Phillipines when they invaded. So my Uncle would have joined somewhere in the early or mid 40's.

Comment by carols_kitchen on November 4, 2008 at 7:39pm: I shall follow this with interest. thanks for coming up with this idea!

Comment by CCR on November 4, 2008 at 5:23pm: http://www.navymemorial.org/Events/ExhibitsonDisplay/NavyMedicineSavingLivesonLandandSea/tabid/112/Default.aspx

This is "Navy Medicine, saving lives on land and sea." Good article for those who have family as corpsmen and women.

Comment by CCR on November 4, 2008 at 5:21pm: http://www.navymemorial.org/HistoryandEducation/tabid/63/Default.aspx

Link to Navy history on the lonesailor.org site.