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 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:
**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 04/26/2013 TG 24 - 11 Divisions (157-166 and 924)
Information
This Group is for those with sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 04/26/2013.
A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 82
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR04/26/2013!
~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 Miss Kris on March 5, 2013 at 3:11pm
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I changed my name in case anyone is wondering. My SR's brother just called me at work to let me know Fed Ex just delivered the box! I gave him strict orders not to open it; he already admitted to wanting to snoop through his brother's phone! I still haven't washed the clothes he wore prior to the box clothes; is that weird?
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Comment by Kathy Ship3 Div 164 on March 5, 2013 at 12:56pm
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Good Morning Ladies. My son left South Carolina for GL on 2/26. When they got to the airport, Chicago airport was closed. He had to go back to the hotel and flew out the 27th. His recruiter called me yesterday with his address. Hope this means his PIR is 4/26. I have not seen anything for divisions yet on this site. How long will it take to get the divisions up and going on Navy Mom's? So anxious to here from him. No box, no letter yet. Thinking the box will come today. The letter later this week. Can't wait to see my sailor!!!!!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 5, 2013 at 12:35pm
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Good morning everyone, I hope you all are having a good week so far. I know how hard this is for so many of you. And as hard as it is to believe the boot camp time will pass pretty quickly. I was a mess when my daughter was there. I didn’t have much time to prepare as she was only in DEP one month and then she was gone. I was and am a worrier lol so I was always wondering what she was doing and how she was. But it all turned out great and it is so hard for me to believe it has been almost three years. I am still here helping others get through this experience and I love it. If you have any questions or concerns please just let us know and feel free to send me a friend request if you like. I am happy to help.
I always say the days drag by but the weeks pass quickly so, try to find something fun to do and stay busy. If you have little ones at home there are several things you can do to make this journey a little easier for the, Make a paper chain with a link for each day they have left in boot camp and let them remove one link each day. It will help them see that this is only temporary. Other have also put a quarter in a jar for every day left and each week allowed the child/children to use the money for an ice-cream cone or even for a special card to send to their recruit, gumballs or gummy bears in a jar work well too and they get a tiny little treat each day. So many things can make it a better experience for them.
5boys, I am so glad you found that site. All made by a Navy Mom, I know this because it is me that makes it all lol. Let me know if you have any questions at all.
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Comment by 5boys on March 5, 2013 at 11:54am
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Check this website out. Kind of neat!
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So my Sr is Ship 02 Div 924. Anyone match that?
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Just got my SR's address yesterday from the recruiter!!!! Yay!!!! The letters are in the mail! From the info. I am receiving, I'm quite sure now that his PIR is 4-26. :) Love that kiddo.
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Comment by diannep on March 5, 2013 at 10:10am
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This group is up to 21 members...yah! More should find this group as the form letters arrive.
You would be surprised, though, at how few with family members in bootcamp know about this site. I didn't. My son never told me and I never met his recruiter (he joined in a different city)--sometimes the recruiters give out N4Moms info. I happened to google for help after he left and found it. Thank goodness! That was back in 2009! Have been on here ever since...love helping on the PIR groups which is where I have been since my son went in.
So, please ask any questions you have.
Just some flight suggestions for you all. Check out Southwest Airlines...they fly into Chicago-Midway (furthest airport from GL...about an hour or longer...but one that some of the sailors will fly from for A School in case you plan to meet them there to wait with them). Also, Southwest flies into Milwaukee (only 45 minutes to GL, no traffic, no hassle, cheaper car rental, and flights are usually cheaper too). Southwest charges no change fee (in case your sailor is asmoed (setback) for any reason...mine was and I had not booked on Southwest...so paid a change fee). They also let you check 2 bags for free. Someone had posted that if you book a car with Alamo through Southwest, it is cheaper too. Just some hints!
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Welcome Chissybear! Divisions for this PIR group should be posted soon...but I have a feeling you are in the right place!
Good Morning All!
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Comment by soveryproudmom on March 5, 2013 at 9:19am
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Thanks for the reply diannep! Chissybear, I did start doing exactly what you suggested, sharing with only those I knew from her discussions! I also posted on her FaceBook page a message telling anyone that wanted the address could leave a message and I would get it to them. April cannot get here fast enough!
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Probably so, Kim! Stay here until you confirm this is your group...you will get lots of info here!
Welcome to you and to Chele and to the other new ladies on here! Glad you found the group!
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