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 07/20/2012 TG 36 — 7 Divisions (221–226 & 936)

Information

Location: Great Lakes, Il
Members: 54
Latest Activity: Nov 30, 2012

Welcome to PIR 7/20/2012 So glad you joined us! Happy sailing!

OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance. Please take the timeto read the OPSEC and Community Guidelines. A quick note here: Last Names of Sailors/Recruits are not allowed on this site. If it is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended. First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture.

CLICK ME

for

OPSEC

and

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

Countdowns

YoWindow.com Forecast by NWS

CLICK ME for the LINK for the RTC WEBSITE

CLICK ME for the LINK for the PIR 07/20/2012 MEET and GREETS

Discussion Forum

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 07/20/2012 TG 36 — 7 Divisions (221–226 & 936) to add comments!

Comment by diannep on July 13, 2012 at 8:37pm: Well, ladies, it is very possible that they did not go through last night? Does anyone have the training week/day count for 221/222? They have to have been on 6-4 yesterday to have gone through. Did anyone keep up with that?

Comment by Jenn_NicksWifey on July 13, 2012 at 8:20pm: I'm hanging out on the facebook page, too and no one has gotten a call.

Comment by MrsSailor-S on July 13, 2012 at 8:16pm: At least we know that as a division nobody got a call----like always no news is good news I guess? Maybe they delayed it until tomorrow......Any advice veteran mommies???

Comment by MOMofDREW2.0 on July 13, 2012 at 8:14pm: No one has gotten a call....Dianep/FTLW what's up?

Comment by MrsSailor-S on July 13, 2012 at 8:09pm: Right. Man I wonder if anyone has gotten a call today....Maybe he's on watch or something-that's always a possiblity. :-) Patience is NOT fun when you're waiting for the other half! It's funny how excited I am to see his handwriting or just hear his voice. :-) Will you be wearing a ribbon at the PIR? Message me so that we can site together with the kiddos! :-)

Comment by Jenn_NicksWifey on July 13, 2012 at 7:45pm: mrsSR - I feel the same way. I'm torn between hoping they get to call tonight and getting to talk to my sweetie NOW and hoping they wait until tomorrow and maybe getting a longer call. They tap (that's how my hubby refers to lights out) at 8pm tonight. Which is in an hour and 15 minutes. There are a lot of Sailors and not a ton of phones.

Comment by MrsSailor-S on July 13, 2012 at 7:27pm: I just was speaking with a friend of mine that works on base, and she said that it's not raining. Maybe they pushed it back because it was raining earlier. I've been at work today with my phone in hand just waiting. I know it's getting late there. Do you guys think that they may make them wait to make calls until tomorrow? I am NOT a patient person-but I guess the whole navy experience has taught me to wait. :-) I'm trying, but the anticipation is KILLING ME!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 13, 2012 at 6:59pm: Shuttle vs. Drive:

I drove...the Parking Garage is at the south end from Midway hall...and at first glance on a Mapquest (which looks REALLY old if you go to satelite view and zoom in...lots of dirt!)...looks far away from it. It actually feeds into the Visitors Center...the USS Yorktown. Which then feeds into Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall. There are various "museumlike" scenarios of Recruit Training (and security with dogs) within the VC to look at while you are in line for the security checkpoint...if you can remember to look at them! I did not, and wish I could go back! The Shuttles drop you off at a staging point at Gate 8...which is closer to the North end of Midway Hall. From there it is about a 100 foot walk to the North end entrance (is there an entrance there any vet moms?...or is it the West side...in which case it is about 300 ft.) I have heard from recent PIR's that moms that have been told it is a shorter distance (which technically it is from the shuttle) you will be waiting outside in the elements. BUT if you walk around to the South entrance (Parking Garage side) you will be waiting inside. Even if you take the Shuttle BUT you decide to drive your Sailor back to RTC and are allowed entrance to drop them off either at the Parking Garage or across the base at the Chapel parking lot...you will need a vehicle pass. If not, you will have to drop them off at the Gate...which means extra walking time. Sailors are not allowed to run...or "double time it" back to their Ships...only walk. The Ships are South and SW of Midway Hall. Civilians are not allowed South past the Chapel or the Parking Garage. I'll post some Maps of RTC (these are public knowledge.)

Here is a Map...it is a tester! I just learned how to convert Powerpoint slides to jpg...so I hope it helps and am working on improving my PP skills! LOL:

Click on the pic and it will open into another page and enlarge.

Comment by J-RockyMtn on July 13, 2012 at 6:24pm: Got it thank you!!!

By the way Lora - received my ribbons today. They are great! :o)

Rec'd another letter from my son. He said div 223 is doing well so they are all hoping they earned some phone calls for this weekend! If not, we will hear from him next week some time. Man of few words.