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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.

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

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

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

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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ALUMNI OF PIR 10/18/2013 TG 49 - 11 Divisions (389-398 and 949)

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This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 10/18/2013. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their Navy journey!

Location: Great lakes, IL
Members: 99
Latest Activity: Oct 13, 2014

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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".

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Comment by alsmom on August 24, 2013 at 12:13pm: Ok, just got the mail and found the Form Letter!! We live in Michigan across the lake from Chicago so maybe it got here faster than others. I wasn't expecting it for another week. He is ship 9 DIV 394.

Comment by ArizonaNavyMom on August 24, 2013 at 11:36am: I've not received anything official, no call from a recruiter or formal letter, but based upon other indicated dates online, it looks like my son would be in this PIR group. He arrived at GL on 8/14. I see New Navy Mom's son left the same day. Anyone else's recruit arrive at GL 8/14?

Comment by alsmom on August 24, 2013 at 10:11am: about that first phone call home - they almost always say they hate it there, they made a mistake, etc. Take heart - it won't last. In two weeks they'll be singing a diff. tune. I've seen my sister go through it with her son in the marines. He had to overcome bad knees and a bout of bronchitis which set him back while his division went on without him. He made it through and has gone on to do just fine. They do get down when they're recovering and some want to give up. Sister and her husband had to make it clear to him that if he came home it wasn't going to be the same. No living in the basement playing video games, etc. It was hard but they basically had to tell him to suck it up and follow through and commit to it. It worked and he is doing great now. Just some advice to prepare you in case your SR calls home sounding down.

Comment by alsmom on August 24, 2013 at 9:50am: Son got to BC Aug. 15. Got the box on the 21st. Guessing PIR will be Oct. 18 provided everything goes smooth. He is to head to Pensacola for A school to learn to be an ABE. Sooo thankful for this place to get advice, comfort and even some laughs! My father-in-law was in the Navy and my brother-in-law as well. He was in the nuke program. I have two nephews who are marines. One just deployed from san diego yesterday on the USS New Orleans. The other is a captain serving for the second time over in Afgan. He will train infantry in Biloxi when he returns. So I'v heard the boot camp stories. The good, the bad. LOTS of good advice on here!!! Super proud of our men!!!

Comment by CatMom509 on August 24, 2013 at 1:26am: Ladies,

Watch out for phone calls from area code "847" and keep your phones with you everywhere, upstairs, downstairs, in the bathroom, to the mailbox, on vibrate if you go somewhere noisy...

Comment by CatMom509 on August 24, 2013 at 1:21am: Hi!

Welcome to Navy for Moms!!

My Sailor Daughter's PIR was just this March 2013. She is an IT (Information Systems Technician) and will be stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. I primarily provide scriptural encouragement for the PIR groups, Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and a few 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!!!

Comment by New Navy Mom (Ship 14 Div 389) on August 24, 2013 at 1:09am: My son left on 8/14. He is on div 389. Still have not received the formal letter but his recruiter gave me the information. So excited to be part of this group as we all go through this journey together. Stay strong! Go Navy!

Comment by stylist613 on August 24, 2013 at 12:50am: hello, im so excited to be here, my son is div 390. thats what his recruiter said. im still waiting on letter

Comment by ellen0502 on August 24, 2013 at 12:28am: Please take the time to read the PAGES here, on your PIR GROUP, about:

N4M’s Community Guidelines and OPSEC (direct clickable Link)

PAGES is located in the middle column here on your PIR GROUP underneath the MEMBERS Profile Pictures.

We will be placing lots of information there along the way for you as well.

Comment by ellen0502 on August 24, 2013 at 12:27am: Hi!!

Welcome to your PIR group!

My son PIR'd in 04/2012. He is an ET and stayed in GL for A School, went to C School in San Diego, and is currently deployed on the USS Germantown (LSD-42). The ship he is on is a Whidbey Island-class landing ship, part of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group (ARG).

A few other veteran moms will be joining to help answer questions, offer support, and give you lots of information.

There will also be lots of pages posted with information for you along the way. They will be posted as the subjects come up!

Remember there are no dumb questions, so ask away!

Fasten your seatbelts...the next few weeks will be a roller coaster ride, but at the end of the ride you are in for the best hug ever!!