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:
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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Navy Speak
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ALUMNI OF PIR 04/19/2013 TG 23 7 Divisions (151-156, 923)
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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 04/19 /2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 62
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR 04/19/2013!
~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".
Comment Wall
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Comment by AndrewB/Mom on April 11, 2013 at 5:04pm
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Hooray!! Got my Ribbons today and they are beautiful!! Thanks so much LaLa!! It was worth waiting for!! I got letters too today how lucky can a MOM be!! Alot of guys sick including my son has cough, no voice and sore throat-hes lucky! He said alot of guys have pink eye and bathroom problems! Sounds crazy!!Thank Goodness he ordered everything but T-shirts! Ordered-pics, frames, yearbook and DVD!! He totally on the ball-just gonna get my shirts when I get there! He said he is leaving Saturday! Boo-Hoo very early- glad to get Friday! Still can not wait! Told him I am bringing his brownies he loves that I bake- he says they all for him LOL!! Before I see him will have his order also for after school! WOW!
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Comment by D'sMomMary on April 11, 2013 at 5:03pm
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*hugs Martie* Soon!!!
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Comment by Martie on April 11, 2013 at 4:36pm
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Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Got a letter from my SR today.She was excited to have participated in last Friday's PIR but she said it made her cry because seeing those sailors with their Moms made her miss me more-I am crying typing this -miss my Navy girl!
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Comment by TJCsMom on April 11, 2013 at 4:12pm
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I'm starting to wish I had made my arrangements to come in on Wed too. But, instead I opted for the hurried and rushed arrival on Thursday. What was I thinking???
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Comment by Josh'smom on April 11, 2013 at 3:54pm
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TJCsMom - yes been traveling in south FL for work this week. My ribbon should have arrived while I've been gone so I'm excited to see it. So much to do this weekend to get ready to leave for PIR. I will be arriving in Chicago Wed. So looking forward to meeting everyone.
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grph, I just got a letter from my SR, I've been scouring the photos of last weeks PIR trying to find her- turns out they made her a flag carrier! That seems silly to me, since the girl sings like a canary on steroids, but whatever. So now I'm looking through the pictures again!
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Comment by ellen0502 on April 11, 2013 at 3:18pm
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This group will change to Alumni of ... You all can stay right here on this group and chat about what your SAILORS are doing and where they are going. :)
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Debi- I found a few of the moms from here over on facebook & stay in touch that way. If you get onto a facebook page with your kid's pir date, they keep the page going afterwards so you get to see the familiar names talking about their Sailors. And some of them post pictures, so we can put a face to the name :)
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Comment by Debi on April 11, 2013 at 3:01pm
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Okay..what do we do next after our PIR? We will all be thrown to the four corners of the USA in so many different A schools and then beyond. We have all been on such a wonderful crazy ride with eachother...and now.. hmmmm
maybe we can tell the RDC's to keep our kids longer so we can stay together :) LOL
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Comment by CatMom509 on April 11, 2013 at 12:39pm
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Good Morning!
"Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers,
and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord."
Proverbs 16:20
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