Welcome to
Navy For Moms

This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

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

Events

Add an Event

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

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
PDF – 2.7 MB
PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

Latest Activity

GoddessBell liked Navy for Moms Admin's discussion NAVYforMoms (N4M) Community Guidelines

Wednesday

Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

N4M Merchandise

Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.

Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.

Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

Badge

Loading…

Get Badge

ALUMNI OF PIR 01/25/2013 TG 11 - 9 Divisions (069-076 and 911)

Information

This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 01/25/2013.

A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Your current Group "veteran members" are:

diannep

LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons

ellen0502

♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW

Betsy, son on Stennis carrier

Craig

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 74
Latest Activity: Feb 23, 2013

WELCOME to PIR 01/25/2013! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP.

CLICK MEforN4M's Community GuidelinesandOPSEC.

~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.

~N4M’s also has Community Guidelines just like any other social media.

~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.

~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:

• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:

• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.

Some Suggestions:

~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.

~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option

~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends".

Discussion Forum

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 01/25/2013 TG 11 - 9 Divisions (069-076 and 911) to add comments!

Comment by Ducky on December 27, 2012 at 5:46pm: I'm happy to hear that some divisions are coming together, unfortunately, my SR is not so lucky. Calls and letters are not coming due to ongoing problems.....

Comment by diannep on December 27, 2012 at 4:25pm: Hmmmm....MYSAILORSCOOP: No, they usually do not know that info yet. He would not have his orders/flight info yet. However, assume that and book your return flight on Sunday sometime just in case! Most of them will fly out on Saturday.

Comment by knappi on December 27, 2012 at 3:35pm: It seems to be all coming together for all of us. Letters and calls! What a true blessing when we hear from them. i have been doing so much reading about what they are going through each week and i though the next time we heard from him, it may not be as positive, but we got another letter today and all still sounds good! Half way there :) He said to stay by our phones today YIPEE:)

Comment by MYSAILORSCOOPS0525 on December 27, 2012 at 10:56am: Good Morning!

Received some letters on Friday and a phone call from my husby yesterday! He sounds great, very excited about the whole experience and kicking b*tt on his tests...lol

He's also Unit Leader and said he received a badge or was it a patch? Im so proud of him! He will be getting Oral surgery soon but said that it wouldnt interfere with his training or PIR so thats great to hear but scary at the same time...We spoke for about 20 minutes and I've been walking on clouds ever since!

He mentioned that he would have both Friday and Saturday to spend with us and would be flying out Sunday...Would he know that information this early on? Either way I plan on staying til Sunday but I thought it was wierd that he knew this so early since I've read that they usually don't know this information til the week of....

Comment by diannep on December 26, 2012 at 11:30pm: Kathy: What he means is that you can't go through BattleStations if you have pink eye. But they give them drops that clears it pretty quickly and they will go with another division. It is so highly contagious!

xraylady: Yep, my son was one of those "never gets sick" guys too...until bootcamp. That Ricky Crud is pretty contagious....and they have lowered immune systems in the beginning from the influx of all of those shots (my opinion!) making them more prone to catch stuff. They all survive it!

Comment by 3athlete on December 26, 2012 at 9:27pm: Hi all. Got what felt like a 20 minute phone call from our son today! yeah!! While sick with a cold, he sounded great and upbeat. He is faring well. He is enjoying meeting all of your sons, and says they are feeding them all well. He sounded really good. So nice to hear. He did say that pink eye / conjunctivitis is going around so he is trying hard not to touch his face / eyes. Says that can delay graduation if you get it prior to graduation.

Says that we might not hear from him for another couple of weeks but is happy that he is progressing .... yeah! Nice belated Christmas present for us. Kathy

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on December 26, 2012 at 8:42pm: tchon, that is so funny, I bet she had paper flying at her from every direction lol.

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday, We had our Sailors home and 21 other family members at our home for Christmas dinner and Crazy Santa. It was loads of fun :) Already looking forward to next year when we will add to the family members here with our new grand baby due in early August :)

Comment by BeeBee (Son at GL A School) on December 26, 2012 at 7:17pm: I just got another call too. I asked my SR why they got to make another call and he said he didn't know. We will just enjoy the extra call. He sounded good. It was great to talk to him.

Comment by xraylady Ship 12 Div 071 on December 26, 2012 at 7:02pm: Are there any Mineman moms out there? Torie said there are 3 other Mineman in his division. That seems odd since there are only 700 Mineman in the whole Navy!

Comment by xraylady Ship 12 Div 071 on December 26, 2012 at 7:01pm: I haven't been on in a while. We were gone for Christmas. I hope everyone had a blessed day with their families. It seemed so strange not having our son with us. We were sooo happy to receive a nice long phone call on Saturday, though. And his best friend's mom texted me about an hour ago and said that he called there today. They have been best friends since 3rd grade and are his second family. He is very sick with a horrible cold; he NEVER gets sick. He said a lot of the guys are sick and his own coughing keeps him up at night. I'm praying that they're all getting the rest that they need to keep going. Now I'm hoping for another letter soon!