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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.

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

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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
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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PIR Reference Information

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A permanent place for information about PIR. Forum discussions have been created to serve as file folders for specific details regarding different aspects of PIR. Please post information in the appropriate forum discussion. Thank you!

Members: 2414
Latest Activity: Jan 28

In order to make this a reference site, please use the Discussion Forums to post information. ____________ Treat them as though they are file folders. Please use the Comment Wall to post your questions. Thank you!

Be sure to click on "View All" at the bottom and to the right of the list of discussions, so that you will see them all. YMM

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Comment by Bobbo on November 4, 2013 at 6:29pm: Anybody remember/know where/how to order a DVD from a prior PIR grad ceremony? I remember they were available while supply lasts up to a year.

Comment by Ship13Div007 1hunner on November 4, 2013 at 11:51am: Is there a way I can find out when my Sailor is going to be doing Battleship 21 ? It is int he near future he graduates November 15th :) I MISS HIM Terribly!!!

Comment by proudmom63 on November 3, 2013 at 8:46pm: hello, all... i am wondering.... awhile back there was talk of someone in or near goose creek, sc that makes cakes. my son's bday is 11/23 and i was hoping someone here would know how to contact the "cakemaker" would love to surprise my son with a homemade cake!

Comment by lemonelephant on November 2, 2013 at 10:36pm: PetSasso, your then SR MAY be part of the Adopt-A-Sailor program since he will be in one of the next 2 TG's after Christmas. He would only be able to go home if you live within 50 miles of the RTC. See What does ??? mean? (A Guide to Navy Abbreviations and Terminology).

Comment by PetSasso on November 2, 2013 at 8:49pm: Thank you for commenting on my Question! Not sure why they told him that he might Graduate early either.... we aren't going to get our hopes up that he'll be able to come home from Christmas, or that he'll Graduate early. If he does, then it will be a nice surprise :) Thanks again...

Comment by lemonelephant on November 1, 2013 at 10:48pm: PetSasso, PIR will either be 01/03/2014 or 01/10/2014. It would not be earlier because your SR must have 7 or more weeks at the RTC. There are 6 actual weeks of training and 4 or more days of P-days before that. Recruits arriving on a Tuesday as your future Sailor will sometimes have a week less at the RTC, but that won't happen for your SR because there is no PIR on 12/27/2013 this year according to http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/upcoming_grads.asp (also no PIR on 12/20/2013). The skipped weeks and the holidays could cause your future Sailor to have 10 Fridays at the RTC rather than the typical 9. See Arrival and What Happens at the RTC within Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones). It would be nice if recruiters kept up with how things happen at the RTC instead of passing on bad info.

Comment by PetSasso on November 1, 2013 at 8:30pm: My SA arrives on Tuesday, November 5th at Great Lakes for Boot Camp. Originally, he and I thought he would be graduating (PIR) on Friday, January 3, 2014. But his Recruiter tells us that he might be Graduating (PIR) earlier because there are NOT going to be any Graduations (PIR's) December 20th or December 27th. I know that LAST year (2012) they DID still hold Graduation on December 21 & on December 28th, but in 2011 they did not.... Anyone have a clue???

Comment by bizebt on October 31, 2013 at 3:00pm: Thank you Idaho Ma & Sarabi2013. I have heard that public trans is really good so we are staying at a hotel in The Loop and not far from Millennium Park.

Comment by Idaho_Ma on October 30, 2013 at 9:21pm: Hi bizebt, Last Saturday we parked at Soldier Field's parking garage so we could go to museums, the aquarium, etc. It was $22 to park all afternoon.