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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 March 21, 2010 at 9:48am: Has everyone joined the Navy History and Heritage group on FB? Its FABulous!!!
I get daily newsletters from mil.com/navy that give me the story of the day, what happened in history and a photo of the day. I love the photographs also.

Comment by CCR on March 19, 2010 at 11:42pm: I just found a new site. I'm not going to put a link because I've already closed out. But its NAVY TV. and has history on ships, videos, and if you click "Store", there are a million things, and lots are on sale. I am embarassed to say I've spent 4 hours looking at the Historical photographs and paintings.
And Deborah, there is a old photograph of Nimitz McArthur, Forest and Halsey at the signing.

Comment by CCR on March 18, 2010 at 10:07pm: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-a/ac14-k.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-a/ac14.htm

Here is two articles I found on the AJAX.

Comment by CCR on March 18, 2010 at 10:05pm: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesmar.htm

You can go here and look up your birthday or the date and find the days Naval History.

Comment by CCR on March 18, 2010 at 10:04pm: tomorrow in Navy History
March 19

1898 - USS Oregon departs San Francisco for 14,000 mile trip around South America to join U.S. Squadron off Cuba
1917 - Navy Department authorizes enrollment of women in Naval Reserve with ratings of yeoman, radio electrician, or other essential ratings.
1942 - SecNav gave Civil Engineering Corps command of Seabees
2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom begins with Tomahawk strikes from Navy ships and submarines.

Comment by CCR on March 9, 2010 at 10:00pm: Cool.
Oh, and Aye mateys! yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Comment by CCR on January 8, 2010 at 2:43pm: Connie just visited a museum, looking forward to her finding time to post.

Comment by CCR on January 8, 2010 at 2:42pm: Mray, thats the most unbelievable story I've ever read. No wonder they covered up most of what the ship (and its crew) did.

thanks Suzann, we like it.

Comment by CCR on January 8, 2010 at 2:33pm: The Missouri and the nearby USS Arizona Memorial serve as bookends to U.S. participation in World War II. More than 1,000 sailors died when the Arizona was attacked by the Japanese fleet on Dec. 7, 1941—a battle that resulted in 2,300 dead and 1,100 wounded. The Missouri, entering the war in 1944, participated in battles in the Japanese islands, including Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and was the ship where Japan unconditionally surrendered in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945.

Read the whole story about Mary's post below in discussions under Ship Names

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on January 7, 2010 at 9:07pm: And our son called to say that he was manning the rails today on the USS Missouri, it is not his normal ship but they needed volunteers for...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A battleship that was turned into a World War II museum has come out of drydock at Pearl Harbor after undergoing maintenance and repairs since October.

Tugs began pulling the former USS Missouri on Thursday afternoon, about five hours after shipyard workers started flooding Drydock 4.

Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii was to speak later in the day at a private ceremony.

The deck of the vessel, now named the Battleship Missouri Memorial, was where officials from Japan and the Allied Forces signed surrender documents ending the war on Sept. 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay.

The memorial is moored a few hundred yards from the USS Arizona, a battleship sunk during Japan's Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Information from: The Honolulu Advertiser, http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com