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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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 ebigirl on July 27, 2011 at 7:42pm: Your correct tks4, PIR stands for Pass In Review. I have no idea what the term is that they use for graduation from A school. Great question!

Comment by Kimnsc on July 27, 2011 at 5:54pm: i did see that one :) That is graduating from boot camp. Is that term used for graduating from A School aswell ?

Comment by tks4 on July 27, 2011 at 5:51pm: I think it stands for Pass In Review.

Comment by Kimnsc on July 27, 2011 at 5:20pm: I'm sorry dont want to sound stupid BUT lol I am not sure of all the terms. New to this. What does PIR stand for? i googled it and got 5 different answers

Comment by Kimnsc on July 27, 2011 at 5:17pm: my son is supposed to ge getting a two week leave before he is stationed to USS KEARSARGE in Norfolk, Va. He graduates from A-School on August 5th from Pensacola. I feel so guilty about moving my daughter into his room. Haven't done it yet, but plan to have him pack up his things while he is on leave. Feel guilty about that too. I think he is ok with it :)

Comment by Sharon ~ K's Mom on July 27, 2011 at 12:59pm: I am so with you all in regards to our children not living at home anymore. It has been really hard for me to grasp all of this. Diego just graduated high school last June, he and Kelsey. She then went away to college, though coming home on the weekends and she pretty much lived with us by then. We loved having her with us, it was always hard to let her go back to college every Sunday afternoon. Then, D leaves for bootcamp and it was so different. We missed him so much. Kelsey would still come home for the weekends, we were be in tears on Sunday. Then a letter came to us in mid October and D told us that he loved Kelsey and they wanted to get married while he was home for Christmas break. We thought they were going to wait a while, they were talking about it. So, Kelsey left school so we could plan properly and she get things in order to move with him after the break. It has all worked out beautifully, we miss them so much. We realize they may never "live" at home again, but we will always look forward to the wonderful visits! They just grew way too fast, Kevin and I talk about all the things we did when they were "little." We traveled quite a bit so they have been to many places even, Paris, France. Kevin had to work there for three months and we got to go over for a week. It was special! So, Diego and Kelsey took what they wanted and left so much still here! We recently moved and had to move so much of his stuff, but we will hold it for him until they are settled one day. Then......they get it all!!!! lol

Comment by Rhonda8881 on July 26, 2011 at 9:36pm: bn4givn, my son said the same thing when he PIR'd. We waited until he came home to let him go though it. He still said throw everything away. We went through it again and got rid of a few things. We let him come home 3 times before we through everything away or donated it. He was amazed that we didn't get rid of it the first time. He did end up taking a few things with him. We still have his old trophies, a jacket and some books/cds. Some things you just can't get rid of!!!

He may live back home again some day, but for now he doesn't see that. But no one knows the future, so things may change some day. We are to raise our children up to become responsible adults who can live their own lives. It is just hard to realize that that time comes sooner than we think.

(((HUGS)))

Comment by Marcy on July 26, 2011 at 1:35pm: bn4givn, I told you this on the hawaii site but put them in a tote and store them away for when he does come home. That is what I did with my sons. That way if he doesn't want them he can get rid of them instead of you. It will make you feel better knowing they are stored instead of giving or throwing them away. How's that sound? I know how you feel though.

Comment by Pearl Harbor MA on July 25, 2011 at 10:39pm: Kind of sad...my son told me today to just trash or donate whatever clothes he has left here....seems so final that he's never going to live back home again! :(