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 03/20/2015 TG 19 - 9 Divisions (113-118, 807-808 and 919)

Information

...AND LOVED ONES!!

This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 03/20/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Your current Group "veteran members" are:

diannep

♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW

LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons

ellen0502

Craig

CatMom509

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 52
Latest Activity: Nov 3, 2015

WELCOME to PIR 03/20/2015! 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.

CountdownClockCodes.com

CLICK ME

for

N4M'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"

YoWindow.com Forecast by NWS

Discussion Forum

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 03/20/2015 TG 19 - 9 Divisions (113-118, 807-808 and 919) to add comments!

Comment by Patty's Mom on March 26, 2015 at 10:02am: Great conversation below and great to see my son's PIR last week! As I recall there was discussion about posting pictures; where should pictures be posted? I was sitting behind a family at PIR who took good pictures and I asked them to send me a copy; I'm afraid they were completely blocking my view, so I didn't get good pictures in PIR Hall. I'd love to see others pics and will post any that I get.

Comment by JHubby on March 25, 2015 at 4:04pm: I'm not sure about the hair. She did say they get 5 mins to shower. My wife didn't get the memo about the test run with long hair, so she cut 2 years of hair off before she shipped. I'll try to find out when I talk to her this evening. She also complained that the marching is what aggravated her foot situation in the first place and it hurt more to march than run with her particular condition. I think the SRs will appreciate tennis shoes for marching AND running haha!

Comment by diannep on March 25, 2015 at 2:55pm: Leaving this group now. Blessings to your new sailors!!!

Comment by CatMom509 on March 25, 2015 at 1:15pm: Hi Friends!

     "Faith is the assurance of things hoped for,

      the conviction of things not seen."

                                                Hebrews 11:1

Comment by CatMom509 on March 24, 2015 at 3:06pm: Hello All!

     "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you.

      I do not give to you as the world gives.

      Do not let your hearts be troubled and

      do not be afraid."

                                                        John 14:27

Comment by CatMom509 on March 24, 2015 at 3:06pm: JHubby,

I'm wondering if they give females more time to get in and out of the showers. When my Sailor daughter was in Boot Camp 2 years ago, they had to be done in 4 minutes. Does allowing long hair give them more time to shower too?

Oh, also, were they trained to put their hair up in a bun? I think this was the main reason for allowing females to keep their hair rather than cutting it short. Thanks!

Comment by diannep on March 24, 2015 at 1:34pm: JHubby: Oh my gosh....they are STILL telling the sailors they can't go into Navy Lodge? I thought they cleared that up. I was told they did. Maybe some of the RDCs "didn't get the memo." Thanks for telling us that.

Great idea about the tennis shoes! I hope this helps with the shin splints, although I would have thought they got those from running? Maybe not.

Thanks for sharing info with us! It helps alot for the future groups. Congrats to your Sailor Wife!

Comment by JHubby on March 24, 2015 at 12:10pm: Nothing was different. I walked in and felt like I knew everything! My wife did mention that they were not allowed to be at the Navy Lodge during liberty, so I'm glad I stayed in Waukegan. The Courtyard I stayed in ran a shuttle to and from PIR for $3/head. Also, women don't have to cut their hair at this point in time and all recruits in classes from here out have to wear tennis shoes for one hour every four hours to alleviate shin splints.

Comment by CatMom509 on March 24, 2015 at 3:22am: Hey Everyone,

Is there anything that changed from what we told you? We just want to be current with our info to pass onto future PIR groups~~ Thanks in advance!

Comment by CatMom509 on March 23, 2015 at 11:54am: Good Morning!

     "So, affectionately longing for you, we were

      well pleased to impart to you not only the

      gospel of God, but also our own lives, because

      you had become dear to us."

                                                I Thessalonians 2:8