Welcome to
Navy For Moms

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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

Add an Event

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

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

B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) commented on Melissa Greenfield's group 'Michigan Moms (and Family)'

yesterday

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

Loading…

Get Badge

ALUMNI OF PIR 09/27/2013 TG 46 - 11 Divisions (361-370 and 946)

Information

Welcome to the group with SAILORS who graduated Boot Camp on 09/27/2013. A place to keep up with each other as your sailors continue their journey in the Navy.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 102
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013

WELCOME to PIR 09/27/2013! 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.

CLICK ME

forN4M's Community Guidelines and OPSEC.

~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

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 09/27/2013 TG 46 - 11 Divisions (361-370 and 946) to add comments!

Comment by diannep on August 5, 2013 at 2:13pm: Michele: The form letters can take anywhere from a few days up to 2 weeks or more to arrive. Depends on if they are in a lower-numbered division or high-numbered and when they arrived at GL. Also, they usually only send out one letter so if there is someone else who could have received it, check with that person. The password in the letters is VERY IMPORTANT so don't lose the letter/password. You will need this towards the end of Bootcamp to download your gate pass for PIR (if you plan to drive on base....you won't need it if you take a shuttle or park off base---but I feel it is a good idea to have it with you anyway).

Comment by diannep on August 5, 2013 at 2:10pm: Nope, not an idiotic question! No question is idiotic! :-)

As far as the time they post the divisions in this group, God only knows. They USED to be good about posting towards the beginning of the week, after they had been there for a week or two. But lately it seems to be taking longer. ellen (creator of this PIR group) checks regularly and will post the divisions up top as soon as she gets them from RTC. Fingers crossed that there are less than 13! :-)

Comment by SoCalNavyMom on August 5, 2013 at 1:59pm: Pamelaship14div361 & Kimpsu89: That's so awesome!!

Diannep- When does RTC post the divisions? Sorry if that is a totally idiotic question :/

Comment by PamelaUSSKearsarge on August 5, 2013 at 1:54pm: Yes Happy Monday! Form letter came today! Ship 14 Div 361... awesome

Comment by Pa Mom (div 368) LS sailor on August 5, 2013 at 12:52pm: Jeremy also left July 31 from PA how long does it take to get the form letter usually nothing yet for us.

Comment by diannep on August 5, 2013 at 12:43pm: SoCalNavyMom: Welcome! Once RTC posts the divisions in this group, we will know the guest number. Hope for 12 divisions or under since that will allow 4 guests each!

Mamaslick: Yes, you definitely will want to visit your son in Pensacola sometime during the IL winter months! :-) It is beautiful there.

Just know that the mail is held from them for 2 weeks until the Recruit Mail Petty Officer who will handle the mail is trained. Not sure if they received their first mail yesterday (the first mail is usually given to them on Sunday) or will be next Sunday. Once they are given their first mail, they should receive mail M-F after that.

Comment by Kimpsu89 on August 5, 2013 at 12:34pm: It sure is a happy Monday! We got the form letter today!! Our son if Ship 14 Div 362. @mamslick3 Our son will also go to Pensacola for A school. I am with you on a winter visit to Florida :) Blessings to everyone!

Comment by SoCalNavyMom on August 5, 2013 at 12:03pm: Happy Monday! My SR left from LA MEPS on July 31st. Still have not received a form letter or his box. I am hoping it will be this week, sometime.

Are all of you planning to attend PIR? We are, but I am anxious to see if my SR was able to put 3 or 4 guests down. My ex and I are both remarried and I would hate for him to have to choose between Step-Parents :(

Comment by Mamaslick3 on August 5, 2013 at 9:25am: Good Morning! My son is Ship 14 Div 362. My son left for BC on 7/24. We received his letter last Friday and mailed all our letters this weekend. He will have A school in Pensacola.I am fortunate to live w/in 2 hours of Great Lakes. I cannot wait for PIR. I am thinking Pensacola will make a nice place to visit when the snow is blowing this winter