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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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.
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:
**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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Welcome to the group with SAILORS who graduated Boot Camp on 8/16/2013. A place to keep up with each other as your sailors continue their journey in the Navy.
Location: Great Lakes. IL
Members: 103
Latest Activity: Feb 3, 2014
~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".
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Hi!
Welcome to Navy for Moms!!
My Sailor Daughter's PIR was just this March 2013. She is currently studying IT (Information Technician) at her A school at Corrry Station in Pensacola, Florida. I primarily provide scriptural encouragement for the PIR groups, Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and a couple of the other groups that I am a member of. I'll also help out with anything that I am familiar with--all kinds of tidbits I learned during my daughter's Boot Camp experience~~ This site really made the time go much faster. I'm so thankful that my Sailor daughter sent me the link for this awesome group of friends when she enlisted!! Count 9 Fridays and before you know it, you'll be seeing your baby again at PIR!! Here we go!!!
If your sailors rating requires C School they will probably not get leave after A School . Generally, leave is granted only after schooling is complete and before shipping out to their permanent duty station.
While in school they can generally have weekend liberty and day liberty off base after they phase up. Schools can differ slightly on their leave and liberty policies, so you will need to find out what their schools policies are before making plans to visit.
belovedbyhim
As I understand the schedule Sailors usually can receive leave after A School unless they are assigned to a unit that is shipping out.
ellen0502. I forgot about those days in Parris Island. How right you are!
beloved by him so nice your son and my husband are in the same ship and division so i look forward to meeting you and your family on graduation day :)
LOL Probably true pat e, but the ones they are first issued and wear through BC most never want to see or wear again if at all possible, especially if they have pulled laundry duty. :)
ellen0502 You would be surprised how many SRs prefer the tidy whities. But I digress
You can ask and talk about your SRs underwear though. The boys don't like their tighty-whities for many reasons, and the girls don't like their granny panties that can double as a parachute if need be.
PIR is a wonderful experience, and watching your sailor march through the door with his division is absolutely the best. Your sailor is marching in proud, confident and like pat e said, an independent adult. I would recommend going if at all possible.
Belovedbyhim
As a marine I can tell you the PIR will be a very important day for him. It is here that your son will basically transform to an independent adult. In my opinion support would be better after BC. A school is a bit less stressful Hope to see you there
Awwww Come on pat e and ellen0502-- You are going to make this a dull group if we can't even ask questions about our underwear!! lol Love the count down clock BTW. I'm still in a quandry as to whether i should go to PIR or Mississippi for A school to see my son. We have a wedding in New Orleans in Oct and I can drive over to see him when he's in A school but I don't know if we can afford to go to both PIR and then see him in Oct too. I'll have to pray about that. I really want to see him sooner than later. I wonder if I can talk hubby into an extra trip this year?? We'll see.
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