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 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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
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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.)
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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 05/09/2014 TG 26 - 7 Divisions (165-170 and 926)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on May 9, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 59
Latest Activity: Mar 28, 2018
WELCOME to PIR 05/09/2014! 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.
~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"
Discussion Forum
Ship 14 Division 170
Started by Michael. Last reply by ellen0502 Mar 13, 2016. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 926
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Marymary May 7, 2014. 27 Replies 1 Like
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 169 and 170 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by sindaz7 May 6, 2014. 18 Replies 4 Likes
PIR 05/09/2014 TIPS AND RSVP FOR MEET AND GREET
Started by OldSarge. Last reply by tdawgsmom May 5, 2014. 2 Replies 2 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 May 5, 2014. 5 Replies 1 Like
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 165 and 166 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Darlene May 2, 2014. 25 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 03 (USS Hopper) Divisions 167 and 168 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by G ma May 2, 2014. 29 Replies 3 Likes
^^^^BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by J's/S'smom May 2, 2014. 1 Reply 1 Like
Comment Wall
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Comment by diannep on March 22, 2014 at 4:42pm
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Congrats, ConnnerG's mom!
darlene: For those staying in GL for A School.....they will move over there shortly after PIR is over....takes about 4-5 hours to complete. You then pick them up on that base, which is close to RTC. They will probably have until about 10 pm each night to be back on base....you can then pick them up early the next morning (your sailor will know the time). So....they get the rest of Fri with you, Sat and Sun daytime into evening! A real treat! :-)
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Comment by Family1st on March 22, 2014 at 2:35pm
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My phone has been glued to me since the 13th and when an IL number popped up this morning I was so excited! My son sounded happy, missed all of us, but excited to be be there. Funny to hear him say the food was good :-). Happy mom today!!!
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Comment by Darlene on March 22, 2014 at 2:17pm
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Does any one know how much time we will be able to spend with our SR after PIR , if they are staying in great lakes for school,I am trying to figure when I should fly home on sunday?? What time to they have to be checked back in after liberty?
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Comment by proudmomma95 on March 22, 2014 at 1:25pm
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I got my call this morning!!!! It is so good to hear his voice, it refreshes the soul! He said the food is real good and even told me some of it is better than mine, sigh...but he is a very picky eater so at least he is eating. He is nervous about the pt stuff as he is out of shape, I assured him they will get him up to where he needs to be by testing. But he also told me he will get to call every two weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by Ashley M on March 22, 2014 at 11:51am
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I got a 30 minute call this morning I was shaking with joy! He sounds amazing ! He said the food is amazing that he would take me on a date there! He loves it there and that it is easy in his eyes ! My man is div 169 and is in a push division and his rtcs are nice to him and im just so happy with joy right now!
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Comment by ellen0502 on March 22, 2014 at 11:11am
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I have just posted several pages in the "PAGES" section. The pages are located here on the main wall just under the member photos.
Please take a couple minutes to looks at them, there is lots of information there for you.
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Comment by VsMomCB on March 22, 2014 at 9:28am
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Thanks for the great tips ladies and yes it does get better. I was a basket case those first few days. I changed my username also based on suggestion. I got a call yesterday as mentioned. It was great to hear his voice! Hang in there newbies :)
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Good Morning!
As far as those missing calls when on watch, my son actually missed his when he was at bootcamp and got to call that night...and it was a week night. So....be prepared for any kind of call at any time when at bootcamp, but when they seem very proper, ask a question right away, know that it is probably a supervised call for info and like CatMom said, no chit chat!
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Comment by gamom on March 22, 2014 at 9:12am
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Thanks for the "heads up"!! I am so hoping to get a call!! I TRY to remember to have my cell phone in my hand all the time, but keep thinking it will be the one time that I forget that he'll call!!! It would kill me!! Hope everyone else in this group hears from their SR, too!!! ;)
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Comment by CatMom509 on March 22, 2014 at 3:38am
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Hey everyone, I want to give you a "HEADS UP" to be prepared to receive calls from your SRs this weekend! The call will show up as "847", "Pay Phone", or "Government" or anything else that may be unfamiliar. If it is a sales call, just politely tell them "No, thank you."
During this time in Boot Camp, please keep your cell phones charged, ready, and with you all the time---upstairs, downstairs, out in the backyard, in the bathroom, out to get the mail, of course, out on errands. If you are going to a loud restaurant or a movie theater, remember to put it on "vibrate" and put in your pocket or some place you can feel it. They will call during the week for security information (no chit chat), but the weekends are the "update calls."
Some who don't receive calls may be because their SR was on watch. If you know you are going to be in an area with no reception, you can record a message to your SR encouraging them~~
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