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 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.

Format Downloads:

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

Latest Activity

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 02/17/2012 TG 13 — 07 Divisions (069–074 & 913)

Information

This group is for families and friends of Sailors graduating on February 17, 2012. We can share information, concerns and ways to connect as we continue the journey from bootcamp to PIR and beyond.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 105
Latest Activity: Oct 29, 2013

OPSEC, OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmust importance. Please take the timeto read the Opsec and Community Guidelines. A quick note here: Last Names are not allowed on this site. If it is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended. First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture.

CLICK ME

for

OPSEC

and

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

Countdowns

YoWindow.com Forecast by NWS

CLICK ME to go to the Recruit Training Command Website

CLICK ME for the PIR 02/17/2012 SARGE'S Meet and Greet

CLICK ME for the PIR 02/17/2012 RAMADA Meet and Greet

Discussion Forum

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 02/17/2012 TG 13 — 07 Divisions (069–074 & 913) to add comments!

Comment by Connie (Ship03 Div 070) on December 25, 2011 at 11:28pm: Ann, I will be praying for the families of these young people. I hope for a quick recovery for the man in ICU. This is the reason I think I actually worry less with him at boot camp than away at college. His safety is being looked after and I know he can not be getting into trouble. If anything bad happens I would be immediately notified.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 25, 2011 at 6:54pm: Ann-So sorry to hear about the tragic loss...I pray the recovery of the young man in ICU and for the little girl fighting cancer...for the families too.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 25, 2011 at 6:54pm: AJsIowaMOM-Congrats on the call!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 25, 2011 at 6:52pm: I'm sorry to do this on Christmas Day...but I haven't posted it yet at all! I will be posting it periodically for the first half of Boot Camp...to try and let all the new members know as they join. There is a link for this up under the eagle (leads to the discussion forum post) and it is also in the Discussion Forum area. Thank You!

Community Guidelines and OPSEC

Hello Everyone.

Safety for your SR (future Sailor) and you!

Sailors LAST names are NOT allowed anywhere on this site. If your last name is different from your sailors it is still not recommended.

FIRST names ARE allowed but I, and some of the other “veteran” moms, will most often advise you not to use them. This is a public forum and anyone can read the posts-they do not have to be a member (if the group is set to private, the public cannot read but all N4M members can-so all you have to do is join) While they use their last names in BC (in fact they don't usually, if ever, find out each other’s first names until the end of BC), the RDC's know who they are and can then, with the right amount of info, link them up to you. So, let’s say you use your last name in your N4M name, post a picture of your SR...easy to match up...and so on.

Why does that matter? Your SR's are trying to get through BC with as little undue attention as possible. "Fly under the radar", so to speak. There have been reports from moms of their recruits being matched up with them. Some are just identified…some get IT (Intensive Training), I am guessing this depends on WHAT is posted…I know of one mom who said that her son had to do 5 push-ups just for every time she posted!

The MOST important reason for being discreet is OPSEC-Operational Security. This is a way of life for us now. It will be for your Sailors career and for some of them, even more so, depending on their individual security clearance. Some moms have mentioned that even today after years they do not know EXACTLY what their sailor does.

SPECOPS...definitely need to be VERY careful.

Here is a link to the "Community Guidelines" for N4M:

http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/navy-for-moms-n4m-community

Here is the link for "OPSEC is everyone’s responsibility" specifically:

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=3342

Here is a link to the video on OPSEC on this site:

http://www.navyformoms.com/video/opsec-internet-safety

Please take the time to review this information.

Thank You.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 25, 2011 at 6:20pm: Merry Christmas...here is a pic from RTC FB of Div 071! Thank you to Sue from RTC!

(Click to enlarge)

Comment by diannep on December 25, 2011 at 6:07pm: AJSIowaMom: YAH for the phone call! Congrats! Not all get to call home home on Christmas, so I know you are thrilled!

Wow, Ann. Puts it all in perspective, doesn't it?

Hope all have had a wonderful Christmas Day!

Comment by Arwen on December 25, 2011 at 5:45pm: For those of you who don't already know me, I'm Arwen. My son Chris PIR'd Feb. 19, 2009, and I've been hanging out helping out other parents ever since. I'm also a Navy veteran (1980s era) with an extensive list of other Navy veterans in my family, including my husband (a nuke submariner) and my BIL and a cousin who both retired from the Navy within the last decade.

If you have any questions about how this whole thing works, from boot camp to paychecks to PIR, and what happens once they go to school or the fleet, let me know. If I don't know the answer, I know where to find it,or who to ask.

Comment by Ann on December 25, 2011 at 1:38pm: Missing my boy as usual today...but our little town suffered a few tragedies yesterday, and I am thankful to know that my son is SAFE, and I will soon see him again!!! 2 families from this town lost their son's in an accident yesterday morning, and another is fighting for his life in ICU! Another of my friends young daughter's was in surgery last night to remove a cancerous tumor on her spine!! (she is only 6)...so....although I miss my son like crazy on this day...I realize that what I am dealing with is NOTHING compared to what some other families are facing right now...God Bless those families and yours on the day!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 25, 2011 at 1:34pm: YAY, YAY, YAY!!!

Comment by diannep on December 25, 2011 at 10:25am: Merry Christmas, all! I agree totally with Lala. This time 2 yrs ago, my son was in bootcamp too. It was a very lonely Christmas with just my older son and me around the tree. That was the first year I didn't record our Christmas. Just too painful. But we have been blessed to have our sailor with us for the past 2 Christmases...so be encouraged for your future! And...as Lala said...those hugs at PIR are the best!

By the way, at church service last night, a former teacher of my sailor was there with her family. She was a "mentor" for my son in his "wayward" days of high school....one of a team of teachers who were wonderful support to my son after his dad died suddenly. She hadn't seen him since he was in high school, which was about 8 yrs ago. But she and I are friends...and stay in touch somewhat...so she knew about him being in the Navy and actually wrote to him in bootcamp. Well....she hugged him and wouldn't let go. I could see my sailor start to let go, and she would hug tighter...this went on for about 20 seconds! I finally saw her face and she was crying...she apologized to him for squeezing for so long, but said she is just so proud of her son and mine choosing to serve their country.

...you see, her only son just left for Afghanistan 2 months ago (Army officer---25 yrs old). Her mother has Alzheimers and is in a home; her dad was her mom's sole caretaker but died in a lawnmower accident about 2.5 yrs ago, and then her son finished college and joined the Army. I told my son later that the long hug was her way of hugging her son too. It was very touching with me in tears too. I know this is such an emotional time of year for so many....prayers for all today!

Merry Christmas!