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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Navy Speak
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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
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ALUMNI of PIR 04/12/2013 TG 22 10 Divisions (143-150, 809, 922)
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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 04/12 /2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 85
Latest Activity: Feb 11, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 04/12/2013!
~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".
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Comment by diannep on March 21, 2013 at 7:45am
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Good Morning All !
Melanie: I'm sorry you are finding this site cumbersome? I know when I first got on it about 3.5 yrs ago, I just practiced a while and asked lots of questions to figure it out, but now, it is very easy. I don't access it by phone, so don't know if that is different, although some of the other N4Moms do and they say it is ok. So keep practicing! We will be posting lots of info here as you get closer to PIR!
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Comment by Melanie on March 21, 2013 at 1:02am
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Tracy the birthday wishes were for your son! I'm on my mobile . This site is very cumbersome ! Go Navy'
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Happy birthday to your son! I'm sure they quietly celebrated! You will see him soon!
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Comment by KansasNavyMom on March 21, 2013 at 12:20am
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Tracy, just wanted to send hugs on your son's 21st birthday. It's hard today but before you know it, you'll see him and you can double celebrate - PIR and birthday! Hope you hear from him real soon!
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Hi Melanie - glad to meet another mom! We heard about the scholar flag too - he said to look for it at PIR. He said they are practicing over and over for a bunch of inspections during Hell Week. I feel a lot better now that I've talked to him a couple of times. Plus I read up on boot camp and what they're doing, saw photos, etc. and that really helped. Should have done that much sooner... let me know how your son is - hopefully tomorrow is LETTER DAY!
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Comment by ellen0502 on March 20, 2013 at 11:38pm
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On the right side of this page, under the member icons, there is a list of "pages". The day by day of BC is there, along with other pages of information.
What ARE They Doing in Boot Camp? Synopsis, Videos and a Day-by-Day...
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Reidsmom, my son is also in that division. We usually get our letters on Thursday! He doesn't give too much info., so I was glad to hear that they are coming together ! I know it was rough in the beginning , they lost a lot of recruits, someone said earlier they won another flag, the scholar, that's great! I think in the beginning they were not winning many tasks . I'm sure hell week will be fine! I can't wait to see them all in their dress blues! Take care.
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Comment by ohwhere on March 20, 2013 at 10:55pm
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Can you please post a link to what happens at Training during each week. I tried to find it again and wasn't able to. I want to read all about Hell Week.
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ReidsMomKathy: He will have his flight info by PIR Day so you will know what time he is leaving. Yes, the gate pass you will get at his airlines counter with him. You will also go through security in a special area which means you avoid the crowds! That, by the way, happens every time you accompany your sailor to an airport gate on "Navy business." Our airport down here is very very busy, and when I saw my son off to his duty station for the first time, we zipped right through the special gate in security. He didn't even have to take off his shoes (me neither). There are nice privileges with being military!
So glad he is doing so well!
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Thanks Dianne! Really appreciate the info. Obviously I'm new to this. My son is going to Nuke School and said he's going to the airport in the wee hours of Saturday like you said, but he won't know when his flight is leaving. He said we can visit at the airport until he leaves - with the gate pass you mentioned? And thanks for telling me what Hell Week is. He sounded really upbeat and said everything's going well in their division so that's good.
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