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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.

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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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ALUMNI OF PIR 3/16/2012 TG 18 — 14 Divisions (087–096, 807–808 & 918–919)

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This site is for families and friends of Sailor Recruits with PIR March 16, 2012. This is a great way to share information, concerns and to connect as we continue the journey through bootcamp to PIR and beyond.

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir03162012
Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 124
Latest Activity: May 18, 2013

Welcome to PIR 3/16/2012

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OPSEC, OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance. Please take the timeto read the OPSEC and Community Guidelines. A quick note here: Last Names of Recruits/Sailors 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.

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CLICK ME for the PIR 03/16/2012 SARGE'S Meet & Greet

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You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 3/16/2012 TG 18 — 14 Divisions (087–096, 807–808 & 918–919) to add comments!

Comment by brooklynsmom(div919PIR 03/16/12) on January 25, 2012 at 1:56pm: Hi everyone. My name is Tammy. Well today has really turned out to be an exciting day. I received my daughters PIR form in the mail. I have been getting all of her letters addressed so that I can take them to the post office. I wanted to let everyone know how exciting it was for me to see her handwriting. Now she is in for it because now I can write her more than she can keep up with. But hey, its what she asked for. lol

Comment by diannep on January 25, 2012 at 11:53am: Proud of our Navy SEALS and the rescue they made last night! HOOYAH!

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on January 25, 2012 at 11:02am: Good Morning ladies, I'm Betsy. I am also a "veteran" mom helping out too. My youngest son is getting ready to leave Pensacola for his first Orders to go to Bremerton, WA to be on the John C. Stennis, aircraft carrier. I also have a future son-in-law who is an ET stationed at Pearl Harbor on a submarine. I have been a member of Navy4Moms for almost 2 years now and it's been a wonderful support to me. Welcome to you all! Get ready for a wonderful ride and Navy adventure.

Diane, thanks for getting this group ready.

Chipsahoy, that is adorable about your daughter.

NavySoccerMom, hello and welcome.

Comment by NavySoccerMom on January 25, 2012 at 10:14am: Good morning. My son left on the 17th. We have not received his form letter yet, but I am assuming he will graduate on the 16th. He is Ship 09 Div 091. I love this site. It has been so helpful. Also the U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command page on FaceBook has been great. I recommend joining both. They post pictures of graduations on that page as well. I look forward to meeting other mom's that are going through the same thing I am.

Comment by diannep on January 25, 2012 at 8:54am: Good Morning. Dianne here...another N4Moms veteran to help out. Thanks for starting the group, Diana. Please ask any questions you like on here...there are several of us in the PIR groups and we will be glad to help!

Buckle your seatbelts for an emotional bootcamp journey that finishes in such a wonderful celebratory moment!

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on January 25, 2012 at 7:54am: HI everyone, I am Lora, aka Lala. I am one of the moms who has chosen to stick around this site and help answer questions on the PIR group pages . I have 2 Sailors in the Navy, my daughter and her husband are based in VA Beach area. I also have an 18 yr old son who is planning to join this summer right after graduation. While at PIR we stayed at the Navy Lodge, drove there from NC and drove to the base for the ceremony. Both of our Sailors had A-school in Pensacola. My daughter is an AO and my SIL is an IT. If you have any questions at all just let me know. I am happy to help. It is great to see you all joining this page and getting to know each other :-)

Comment by NavyMommaG on January 25, 2012 at 2:50am: Hi! Thank you so much for getting this started, I am looking forward to reading everything! Got my flight and room booked! Ship 04 DIV 807 My son is so happy to finally get there and get started on his adventure. I had a hard time before he left, but now that he is actually gone, it's easier. I love the count down clock!

Comment by ChipsAhoy (ship 3 div 89) on January 25, 2012 at 1:24am: Just wanted to say hi to everyone... Even though no one is here yet... I haven't gotten anything back yet. I guess I am still half expecting him to be bringing it home himself.
Well I am a wife... Although I feel like his mom sometimes... We have a little girl who turned one in September. She has developed this habit of bonking daddy's picture on the nose every night before bed. They say it takes seven days to make a habit and here we are on our seventh day.
We made it a week.
I am so glad to be here!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on January 25, 2012 at 12:46am: Hello!

FireTeamLeaderWife here!

My Sailor PIR’d on 05/26/2011.

I am a “veteran” mom on the PIR groups mostly. I will check in here once in a while to see if I can answer any questions and lend some support. There will be a few other veteran moms along to lend a hand and support you all through your PIR experience. diannep, LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons, Betsy,momofPensacolasailor, JessicaB Sailormom and a few new Ladies!. We have a few others that help out when we have SPECOPS in the groups, sjtina to name one. Others drop in occasionally too…plus we are always looking for more to “join the ranks”. Things change in the military and we like to give out the most current info that we can so moms that have just gone through this help a lot.

I’ll also be loading up the Discussion Forum area with lots of info to help you along during your PIR experience. Please feel free to add your own discussions and start your divisional discussions.

Welcome!