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
PIR 10/1/10
Information
This group is intended to unite those who have loved ones with a PIR date of October 1st, 2010.
Location: USA
Members: 125
Latest Activity: Jul 30, 2013
THIS IS NOT ME YELLING...HOWEVER IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!
ANYTHING POSTED ON THIS FORUM IS PUBLIC! EVEN IN THE DISCUSSION FORUM ABOVE! UNLESS YOU EMAIL OR PRIVATE CHAT, THE INFO YOU SHARE ON THIS WEBSITE IS 100% VIEWABLE BY ANYONE! ON THE INTERNET, IN THE WORLD, INCLUDING RDC'S IN GL! I WILL DELETE POSTS CONTAINING NAMES OF SR'S, RDC'S, OR EVEN FAMILY OF SAID. IT IS IN EVERYONES BEST INTEREST AND SAFETY TO KEEP CERTAIN INFORMATION PRIVATE.
THANK YOU FOR YOU UNDERSTANDING AND ATTENTION!
With all that out of the way, I am thrilled to have access to the information, support, and friendship on N4M. I want to keep it safe for our SR's and families, and for future SR's and their families. Please read and respect the OPSEC guidlines posted on N4M's main page. These guidelines are a foundation for your SR and family now that he/she is just days away from becoming a United States Sailor.
__________________________________________________________________________
Make your own Countdown Clocks>
Discussion Forum
- A School -
Started by Lauren - Sub Wife - Bangor, Wash. Last reply by USnavymom63 Jul 30, 2013. 28 Replies 0 Likes
Comment Wall
Comment
-
Comment by sondra on September 11, 2010 at 11:22pm
-
Yes we have Lala. lol I have been waiting for the pictures taken at his going away party for a month now. If God has taught me anything through this journey it is patience!!! Still not very good at it at times. lol Guess that is why he keeps reminding me.
-
Comment by diannep on September 11, 2010 at 11:18pm
-
sailorwife: My son told me when he was there that they have very limited room to store things in at bc. He was actually reading my letters and tossing them! So many recruits who want to save the letters send them back in an envelope so that they can be saved at home.
proudmom: You can thank LTLY for the everything up top including the BStations schedule!
Also, 323 and 324 will be first to go through. Most likely Thurs night, 9/23, but you will need to ask your recruit when you hear from him.
-
Comment by proudmom7 on September 11, 2010 at 10:39pm
-
Thank you soooo much whoever put the Battlestation schedule on here. My son is division 324 and he hasn't said when he will be doing his yet, but maybe I can get at least a good estimate from your schedule. We received 2 letters from him the other day and his girlfriend got some, he says he is homesick (hasn't said that in any other letters up to now), he said he just got over being sick - fever, sore throat, bad cough. So I think that might be part of what is making our SRs so homesick right now. They are probably super tired and if they've been sick on top of that, all you want is the comforts of home and family again. My thoughts and prayers are with everybody's SRs. They WILL do this. I will send him another "pump him up" letter tonight. He also said in his letter "if I graduate" well, I wrote him back "NOT IF - WHEN" you graduate, I told him I will be there on the 1st of October and will see him no matter what, so that should scare him enough to push through - the thought of momma showing up and making a stink to see him. LOL
-
Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on September 11, 2010 at 10:00pm
-
lol Sondra, haven't we all?
-
-
No ribbons here either! But I becoming accustomed to waiting! lol
-
-
sailorjayship: On how long to write to them towards the end of bc, Jessica and I always say to stop about a week before PIR at the latest. Although they say it is forwarded, I have heard from moms who wrote to the end and said that their letters were never received. So anything you want them to be sure to get....give it to them at PIR!
-
-
Did anyone get ribbons in the mail yesterday or today? I have started sending them for this group. I will be sending some each day. Make sure you let me know when you get yours. :)
-
Comment by ProudNvyMom on September 11, 2010 at 7:19pm
-
Anyone know the date for Battle Stations 21 for Div 326?
-
Comment by sailorjayship13div329 on September 11, 2010 at 6:53pm
-
JaneShip: thanks. i wanted to make sure he got his birthday card.
-
-
txsailorsam: you win, I lose. only 4'103/4". but my dad told me not to worry, my legs reach the floor. SR is 5' 7.
Just a note from him in mail. Payday again this week, its my third one this week. Let's see "send more stamped addressed envelopes, pray for him. Hell week will have started by the time you get this letter". and always "miss and love you". sob, sob. It was postmarked 9-9-10; got in 2 days. Hope more moms get letters. By the way he did say, he"would write any mom who needs a letter". All i can say is his letters are short, but at least I'm getting something.
Question: I read not to send letters/mail to SR 10 days before PIR; is that true?
© 2025 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
You need to be a member of PIR 10/1/10 to add comments!