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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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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Graduation Info
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Missing your Husband? Have Questions or just feeling plain lousy without him?? LETS TALK!!

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Comment by navywife72 on March 2, 2010 at 1:35pm: The good bye after PIR (Feb. 26th) weekend was so hard im still trying to keep the tears back :(

Comment by Cp7 on March 2, 2010 at 1:25pm: hi everyone, hope you are all having a good day!

Comment by jonwife on February 28, 2010 at 10:05am: Hello ladies, have a question about Pensacola. My husband is going down there for A-school for a little less than 5 months. It won't be PCS but we (my son and I) are moving down there on our own because we just sold our house and have nowhere else to go LOL. Any suggestions of nice apartments close to the base? I found a few but am not familiar at all with the area. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comment by Cp7 on February 27, 2010 at 11:14am: so mu husbands in Haiti right now, chili just ahd a bigger earthquake....is it horrible that Im prayign he doesnt have to go there now

Comment by kldoodlebug(Cam's wife) on February 26, 2010 at 7:02pm: Did y'alls husbands get to spend the weekend after bootcamp with you (overnight)? My hubby graduates the 16 of Feb and that is our anniversary and it would be really great if I could sleep in the same bed as him again!

Comment by proud Navy wife! on February 22, 2010 at 11:07pm: I do not don a uniform, no combat boots for me.
No standing watch, or marching straight, or following cheifs decree.
I am, however, military, this you can not deny.
My husbands station takes him away, yet we are still not good at goodbye.
I dont report for duty or put my life on the line
But my job is just as hard. Im the one he leaves behind.
I fall asleep alone, worrying if he's hurt, lonely, or scared.
To far apart to comfort, he thinks the same; frustration is equally shared.
Not able to follow, I will always be waiting, because that is what I must do.
To get my heart, my Sailor back, I have to wait till his work is through.
The sacrifices my husband must make, are not his alone.
I feel them just as much, yet I have to be strong on the phone.
After I hang up, is when I allow the flood of tears
because if he knew, and heard the pain, it would just confirm his fears.
Alone is how I must grieve, yet strong and proud we both must be,
Encouragment, communication, and unconditional love are whats key.
So, even though I, myself, do not serve and protect
My husband does and that how the military and I connect.
The man I married is my hero, he is the rock on which I built my life.
I stand amoungst the silent ranks, I am a Navy wife.

Comment by Tabitha on February 20, 2010 at 12:02pm: Any Bangor/Bremerton WA wives in this group? We're heading there March 3rd!! I am so excited!

Comment by ddsso on February 16, 2010 at 4:16pm: Depending on where you are transferring from, your hubby will be given a certain # of transfer days (anywhere from 1-8 days) and all other days will be subtracted from his leave balance. His orders will tell him how many leave days he is allowed between commands.

As far as places to live, if you have kids find a place where the schools are good. Va beach definitely has the best school district in the Hampton roads area, but not all the schools are good. My kids went to Birdneck Elementary for 3 years and its a phenomenal school! The Birdneck area is really nice, lots to do and close to the beach and interstate!

Hope this helped!

Comment by Tabitha on February 9, 2010 at 7:57pm: I definitely will! LOL It is driving me nuts, not knowing any details!

Comment by Tabitha on February 9, 2010 at 5:20pm: Jenny: thanks so much! He did say something about this but once we get written orders w/the date he has to report to our PDS, we can actually figure all of this out! He said he can go and ask a bunch of questions at some office, so I am praying it's in the next few days b/c we really need to get our housing application in soon!