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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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
ALUMNI OF PIR 05/24/2013 TG 28 - 11 Divisions (195-204 and 928)
Information
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.
Your current Group "veteran members" are:
diannep
LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons
ellen0502
♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW
Betsy, son on Stennis carrier
Craig
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 85
Latest Activity: Apr 25, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 05/24//2013! 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".
Comment Wall
Comment
-
Comment by Lighthouse3 Div203 PIR5/24/13 on April 29, 2013 at 1:49pm
-
After reading posts about not getting calls, I didn't really expect one this weekend--unless he was able to call his wife, which, of course takes precedence, as it should. The most disappointing was not getting a letter today; we live only 50 miles from base, so on Mondays we've been getting what he sent out on Sunday, if I recollect correctly. I'm hoping my mind is a day off, or that he wrote to his wife instead. She's clear across the country, so it takes her a lot longer to get mail. We had a flood 10 days ago, so I'm going through his books and other belongings, along with our own. I found a very touching Navy-inspired patriotic musing he wrote tucked away in an old history notebook he'd used when reviewing for the ASVAB. Of course, it moved me to tears.
-
Comment by Tallblueks(ship02div928) on April 29, 2013 at 12:37pm
-
yes, was disappointing not to get a call this weekend. Keeping positive that all is going well for them. Had the courage to continue working on cleaning up his room. I walk in a smell him and I just couldn't do anything. So I now have a few shirts in zip lock bags and the rest are now going through the laundry. Ugh! why is this so hard. I know he is where and doing what he wants to do. This emptynester is having a roller coaster of emotions this week. Ugh!.
-
Comment by Mike803 on April 29, 2013 at 10:24am
-
Well, like many of us, no call this weekend. We have had three calls to date and two really long letters that were actually a compilation of letters that he was able to write on different days. In his last call, he did say that he would probably not be able to call again until after Battle Stations. So, my wife and I continue to have a phone with us at all times just in case but will try not to be too disappointed if he does not call for a couple of weeks. It is, after all, downhill from here!
-
Comment by diannep on April 29, 2013 at 8:25am
-
So he is a GM and will be at GL A School for sure. Gunners Mate is his rating (same as "job"). "Rate" would be paygrade, anywhere from E-1 through E-3 during bootcamp. Just a small Navy terms lesson! :-)
Good Morning All!
-
-
diannep,it is me again........I have no idea what his rating is..........I know he will be a gunners mate..........Thx........
-
-
25 days and counting down.................Good morning and a Monday morning at that..............Cannot wait to see my son and meet you other moms as well.............
-
-
diannep,I went ahead and booked a flight for my daughter to come home on Saturday night and I am staying thru Monday.........Not taking any chances,you seem to be on top of things.........I can drive home myself from St Louis,only 5-6 hours tops.........I will not leave him at all if he has free time.......My daughter is 30 with 3 children 3 and under........Yep,3,2,and the baby turns 1 on May 26th....That is why she is lucky to be getting away for a couple of nights and thrilled............The other 2 tickets go to my recruits son who is 3 and his mama...........They live in Chicago so easy for them.....Thanks again,her flight is booked and I have 4 nights booked at Ramada in case I need them........Hope everyone has a good week.........Maybe we will all get mail............Or not........
-
-
So bummed I didn't get a call today. This continues to remind me that I shouldn't have expectations because just as soon as you do they change. I hope they are doing well and not in trouble.
-
-
maryanne: Yes, he will get orders for A School, but if he knows that his A School is in GL, then he will have the daytime Liberty. What is his job (rating)?
And, no the recruiter is not correct. He will be on "hold" until he classes up at A School....so he won't be able to come home. Not sure why they tell some this....because it doesn't happen except for during Christmas break when those sailors PIR during the Christmas stand down. Then some of them do get to come home before A School.
-
-
Sherry,thanks for the good news.......My son is in that division as well,so happy they are all doing well......diannep,thank you as well. I sure hope you are right. But does he not have to wait for orders to be certain? His recruiter also mentioned that if his school does not start till June he could come back to St Louis with me.....I guess I will know when he knows........If I had thru Memorial Day I would be thrilled..............
© 2025 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 05/24/2013 TG 28 - 11 Divisions (195-204 and 928) to add comments!