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

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 11/06/2015 TG 52 - 10 Divisions (369-376, 820 and 952)

Information

This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 11/06/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 67
Latest Activity: Mar 3, 2017

WELCOME to PIR 11/06/2015! 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

for

N4M'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 11/06/2015 TG 52 - 10 Divisions (369-376, 820 and 952) to add comments!

Comment by TraG151 on October 19, 2015 at 10:18pm: Very well said TheRocksmom! I have also worried about the same things. I don't post much but I read all of it. But I did see my SR today on the blood drive Fb page. Made my heart smile. I NEVER thought it would truly be this hard. I knew it would be hard but not like this.

Comment by TheRocksmom on October 19, 2015 at 9:28pm: Reading the tread its interesting because I have just been having concerns about posting things on any social media. Yesterday I was thinking how aweful it would be if someone was lurking around to get information about anything posted, to be perfectly honest it scares the H--- out of me! If the RDC's lurking around, well not quite sure how I feel about that, on the other hand, anyone lurking around to cause harm to my SR well I have a real problem with that, My son joined the Navy to protect his Country! I'm serious when I say that, There are great advantages as well, schooling benefits and such, but, bottom line my sons and yours and daughters as wellwill be serving our Country with honor, courage and Commitment. I for one do not want to do anything that would work against that. It's bad enough all the emotional changes and adjustments that we here as moms have gone thru so far in this Journey, that there r some that intend to profile this to gain àdvantage to the detriment of our Children and to Our Country. II have personally put my family and friends on notice if I even have a clue that they have posted anything that would compromise my son or this country's security, I will be the first one inline of many where there will be a price to pay,I am sorry about being on this soapbox, but at the end of the day,its my son your sons and daughters that make and keep all of us safe! Sorry for the long post.

Comment by TheRocksmom on October 19, 2015 at 9:04pm: Widernessnut: Great lakes blood drive if you joined PIR groups ASBP great Lakes,

Comment by Wildernessnut on October 19, 2015 at 7:04pm: What is the facebook page that is being talked about for the blood drive?? Thanks

Comment by SMW729 on October 19, 2015 at 3:23pm: Ok thanks ellen0502. I didn't want to violate anything or jeopardize any SR

Comment by ellen0502 on October 19, 2015 at 3:19pm: Divisions numbers are OK, what the division is, it is no secret, but true on not saying what their rating may be.

There are also many jobs that may not be spec ops, but require a high security rating, those ratings you should be "quiet about." If your recruit is one of those you would most likely know.

Comment by ellen0502 on October 19, 2015 at 3:12pm: User names can also be a "give away" on this site, and on the FB groups your real name is visible everywhere. If you don't have things locked down to a tight ship on FB, comparing what is here with what can be seen on your personal FB account it can be easy peasy to figure out who you are with a few "detective skills".

Don't be fooled by a private, closed or secret group either, they are not as "private, closed or secret" as you think they may be.

I am on a FB group for my sons ship and we still post absolutely nothing about where they are, where they are going, what they are doing, unless it is actual public knowledge. We post "Fair Winds and Following Seas", "Out floatin' on a boat" etc. Those of us that should know, do, and if any spies are around no such luck, they may know they are headed out, but not when, where to, or why. Most of the time we don't even know until after the fact.

Comment by diannep on October 19, 2015 at 2:15pm: Nukes&SnipesMom: The RDCs are told NOT to go on this site, but sometmes they do. That is why we work so hard to make sure you all do not post much personal info....save that to private message to your friends on here. Here is my take on this....the FB groups seem to think they are much safer since they are "private" groups. They do a pre-screening process by volunteers, like we here are, but guess what? This is cyberspace! There is only so much they can ask about---people can be whoever they want to in cyberspace. AND, who better to know about Bootcamp things than Navy personnel at RTC? So.....I am convinced that either RDCs or family members/friends of theirs have gained entrance into some of these FB groups. Sooo....my suggestion is this: No matter what social media group you may be in, be wise. Don't share negative comments your SR may make....be general in what you do share, like: My SR is doing well. They are having (test) next week, etc. That is all public info and can be shared. But don't be like the wife that was on a previous group about 4 yrs ago....who posted that her husband said that he hated RDC (name). Oh boy.....didn't help when the next post was from another wife who suggested that this lady "kick him in the b--lls" at PIR. Thankfully, I notified the group creator who got those comments deleted immediately! Can you imagine what could have happened to those SRs? Wow......

So be wise....don't disclose too much info.....but PLEASE do not flee these sites as they are very helpful!

Comment by mommacnavy on October 19, 2015 at 1:31pm: diannep - thanks for confirning! Phew!

Nuke&SnipesMom- it does stink that they stalk these sites, but I did hear they did that when I first got on here; although I don't remember where I heard it! (so helpful, right?) I know this site can be seen publicly, you just can't post unless your a member...

Comment by diannep on October 19, 2015 at 7:25am: mommacnavy: Ahah.....yep....they threaten that all of the time....ASMOing (setting back) an entire division. Does not happen....they say that to motivate them. Individuals, however, can and will be asmoed.

Good Morning All !