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:
Events
**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:
**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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PIR 5/6/2011 (Divisions 157-166, 809, 925)
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Latest Activity: Feb 26, 2018
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Discussion Forum
*****BATTLESTATIONS*****
Started by diannep. Last reply by mysonRJ Mar 16, 2013. 70 Replies 16 Likes
This is their final test. After this, they graduate and are sailors! It is a 12 hr overnight drill testing them on all they have learned and what they may encounter when they are deployed on a…Continue
Division T-Shirt Orders
Started by Valtameri. Last reply by Rox (FN-EM/Nuke School) Jul 30, 2012. 13 Replies 3 Likes
Here is some information I borrowed from another PIR group: : T-Shirts Order Form I've attached an order form for you. A couple of notes: 1 -- Please order no later than three weeks prior to . 2 --…Continue
Nuke A School FAQ
Started by NF Mom. Last reply by NF Mom May 16, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Nuke A School FAQ click the Above LinkContinue
SHIP 12 DIV 165
Started by Liddia. Last reply by Liddia May 9, 2011. 218 Replies 0 Likes
Hello ladies and gents, I thought I would set up a link just for our division. I know that our color scarf is to be yellow at PIR. I also have found out that our recruits will be getting 2 division…Continue
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Comment by velvetlace on March 13, 2011 at 10:15pm
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My son is going to be a corpsman. I agree with marylieu--there is a whole im my soul without my son here, but I know that he has to take the path that he was meant to take. It sounds like your son may be training with my son.
Mary from McKinleyville, CA
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Comment by marylieu on March 13, 2011 at 10:10pm
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Thank you for the welcome, it meant a lot to me. My son is going into the reserves and hopes to be able to get some training to help him pursue a paramedic career.
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Comment by Valtameri on March 13, 2011 at 10:05pm
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Hi Marylieu, Velvet, Kim, Lori, mamasan -- so many people joining! Glad you found us. What jobs are your SRs looking forward to?
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My son left on Monday March 7. There is a huge hole in my soul. This site has made it bearable and now that I have found this group I feel like I have a place to go, Marianne from Long Island, NY.
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I have not received the letter or the box yet. I just went out and bought some paper for writing lots of letters. We had some tsumanis right off our land on the north coast of California, We are 85 feet up on a bluff, so we were in no danger. I thank you for your comments. I am going to try and come with my husband to the PIR. You all are right. It is once in a lifetime. He is my only child who we thought we could never have so.... Thanks, everyone! Mary in McKinleyville, CA
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Comment by kim12div160 on March 13, 2011 at 9:33pm
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Thx goodness for this site!!! My son left on Wed 3/9 & I am anxiously awaiting for the PIR date to make my reservations. I am pretty sure it will be 5/6, but just want to official date. I am guessing his "box" will come on Monday? He was so funny & didn't even take a bag with him because he knew everything would be sent right back. He put his toothbrush/paste in his pocket & off he went...really kind of made me laugh. Again I am so thankful to have somewhere to share my thoughts. And it's really great for info. Good luck to all our SR!!!!
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Comment by ltolerNCcoastmom(ship03/Div155) on March 13, 2011 at 7:54pm
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Hi my name is Lori, from NC coast. My son left on March 7th. Recieved his "box" last Thurs. but no letter yet. Thinking that might be a good thing though. It would kill me to hear pain in the letter, and I am sure I would. I hear the other moms getting letters and it makes me anxious but then I have to regroup and think it over. I am sure with time and settling in, they get confident and look forward to the next step.
I love this site and appreciate all the information everyone gives out. To all the moms...stay strong, pray and count the days our boys are girls will come home men and women!!
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Comment by diannep on March 13, 2011 at 7:19pm
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velvetlace: I have to agree with Jenny...there is nothing like PIR! Well worth the $$ and time to get there if you can do it!
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Comment by Mom2aSailor on March 13, 2011 at 5:11pm
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velvetlace, My daughter left 3/8 also... I can't imagine NOT going to graduation... GO! :) It is a once in a lifetime event! :)
Lala.. thanks for coming on and being here for us! :)
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My son left on March 8th from California for boot camp. He is job will ultimately be corpsman. A little about myself---my father was a lt. cmdr. in the Navy and my mom was a Navy nurse. We live on the northwest coast of California, but my son also lived in the Central Valley of California until high school. I am looking forward to getting my first letter from him. My husband are debating whether to come to the graduation from boot camp since we both work and it is so far away. My husband is a veteran of the Army. I am a deputy district attorney. Are there any other moms from California who will be attending the PIR on May 6? Mary
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