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
Latest Activity
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 08/02/2013 TG 38 - 12 Divisions (277-286, 817 and 938)
Information
Welcome to the group with SAILORS who graduated Boot Camp on 8/02/2013. A place to keep up with each other as your sailors continue their journey in the Navy.
Location: Great Lakes, OL
Members: 99
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR 08/02/2013! 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 proudmom of PH on June 14, 2013 at 10:37pm
-
Well, just as in figured, after finally getting some info from the recruiter, the letter did come today. It was great to see his handwriting again. It was funny to see it written in pencil, though. It reminded me of when I was a kid, writing letters home from camp, lol.
-
Comment by cindilouwho65 on June 14, 2013 at 9:58pm
-
Joe'sRMom-
A ride to the event would be great. But there will be 4 of us if his other sister gets put on the list in place of the sister that cannot attend. (she's going to write to him and ask him).
Thank you for the info DianeP!
I'm going to see if my daughter can get us rooms at Marriott for the family rate. If they are put in my name? I only have to be there for the check in for the guests coming to stay. So, if possible I'm going to ask her if I can get a few rooms at the family rate for those who may want to stay there. I had already decided I was staying at Marriott.
Joe'sRMom we should stay in touch since our sons are in the same division. :) So far it's just us lol
-
Comment by Beachmom (Ship 13, Div 281) on June 14, 2013 at 9:57pm
-
Jme, my son is also Ship 13, Div 281!
-
-
thank you diannep! Do you know if there is transportation available to take the parents to the airport to see our sailors before they fly out? Maybe arrange something with Sarge?
-
Comment by diannep on June 14, 2013 at 9:44pm
-
Those flying out for A School will most likely leave on Saturday, day after PIR. You can meet/visit with them at the airports---get a gate pass and wait at gate with them. They are bussed there in the wee hours of the morning to wait for flights. You can meet them there and give them phones/laptops.
-
-
Beachmom: OHare is closer to GL than Midway. Sailors fly out of both of them. We have heard that those going to Pensacola or San Antonio fly out of Midway, the rest fly out of OHare. USO staff told one of the moms. Not sure if that is written in stone though!
The Marriott Hotels (Residence, Courtyard, Springhill Suites) use the local shuttle service....$3/pp each way. Sarge's shuttle is the same price, but if he picks you up from the airport, he includes his shuttle TO PIR for free.
Guest lists can be updated one to two weeks before PIR by the SRs
-
Comment by Jme Ship 13 Div 281 on June 14, 2013 at 9:33pm
-
Just received my letter my SR Ship13 Div 281!!!!! So happy
-
Comment by JoeR's Mom (Ship 04 Div 283) on June 14, 2013 at 9:15pm
-
cindilouwho65, I completely understand! I am sure the Marriott has shuttle and probably free or really low cost, check into that. I believe he can change names if he does it within enough time. I booked at the Ramada hotel today not bad at $201 per room for 3 nights (on booking.com), checked on flights and a rental and it's going to be pretty pricey. Well I have 5 total coming, but 2 will stay and watch the live feed, I plan on renting a mini van, if you and the girls need a ride, let me know!
-
-
JoeRsMom- I haven't seen too many others either. I know there has to be others? I'm having a hard time trying to budget for this trip. I only work two part time jobs. That alone covers my bills right now. So I'm stressing out. I promised him.
There will be 3 in our group. His sister was the 4th...but she can't go now (she can't get time off work then?) He has 6 sisters. The baby of them below him lives with me at home still (15). So one of the other sisters wants to go instead? I'm not sure how switching names (if it can be done?) on the list works??? I told her talk to her brother about that and I'll mention it to him. I was avoiding telling him one sister couldn't make it ya know?
I could probably stay at the Navy hotel on the base )(we have military ID all of us). But, it's 20 bucks more than the Marriott we can get up the road at $45 a night family rate (sister works for Marriott).
We have 7 Fridays to go!!!
-
-
Cindilouwho65 I can't wait! I have not seen to many moms on here with the same Ship 04 Div 283.
I booked our rooms today at the Ramada, just need to do flights and rental car, so ready! How many more Fridays?? :)
Pages (6)
- N4M’s Community Guidelines and OPSEC
- SHIP/DIVISIONS ~~ What are they and how do they fill them?
- RTC Website and RTC Family Guide links
- Calls from your SR
- What ARE They Doing in Boot Camp? Synopsis, Videos and a Day-by-Day account (up to Week #6) from a Sailor. PLUS-Boot Camp for Dummies!
- LIVESTREAMING OF PIR SERVICE ON INTERNET
© 2025 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 08/02/2013 TG 38 - 12 Divisions (277-286, 817 and 938) to add comments!