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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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:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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.)
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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
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SaSSY (Sponsor a Sailor @ Sea, Y'all)
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A 501 c3 non-profit org. that exists to help deployed sailors while they are away from their loved ones.
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Website: http://www.besassy.org
Members: 31
Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023
Whether it is your son, daughter, wife, husband, boyfriend, cousin, brother, sister, mother, father, etc. that is away on a deployment, they all enjoy getting mail. It's a way that they can stay connected to family and friends. The most frequent response we get from the Sailors is that receiving mail from the home front is a huge morale boost!
SASSY is more than 80 moms strong with another 50 SASSY people (classrooms, teachers, civic groups, family, friends and just true blue Americans) who have come together to be a part of Sponsor A Sailor at Sea, Y'all (SASSY). We've made some excellent contacts on the Big E as well as the other ships in her carrier strike group, from the Ship's company to the airwing. And now the USS GHW Bush! Through the Chief's Mess, we receive names of junior sailors who are in need of support - from cards and letters to the occasional care package - and reminded that their service to the country and their personal sacrifices are appreciated, and that someone back home is thinking about that sailor.
Many sailors don't receive much, if any, encouragement from home. Sometimes its because the sailor is truly alone, or is estranged from his family, who may not be supportive of his/her decision to join the military, or perhaps because of the family's financial situation, it isn't possible to send the care packages that make life a little better.
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Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on October 6, 2011 at 3:43pm
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Terry - kewl... naaa prob will get there just in time!!! Fingers crossed!!!!!
Yea I am hearing from two of my Sailors regularly but the other three I have not heard from.. it does concern us a little but we will still send out a box each time... usually we send two boxes each Sailor sometimes three but in their case we will send one this time and another letter asking them to let us know if they are getting them and all that.... I do get an email every single day from one of my boys... I love hearing from him and I think he loves the communication also from me! seems too anyway... just wish I knew about those other three kids??? Oh well!!!
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hooooyaaaaaaaaa...... shipping out care packs again Friday!! Still have only heard from 2 of my 5 but im still hoping..... HUGS
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Terry ---- you know sweetie.... I have several of my boys original PIR that did not wind up making what they originally hoped for... and then went undies too but they are all happy and sorting it all out.... they are striking for other rates and I just think that any job especially in the Navy is a GREAT job... I just know that your boy A.... well, God just wants him somewhere else thats all! And Im sure that he learned so many things and met so many people that he was suppose too.... The Nuke program is hard and especially if you are married - I have a friend here on N4M that "knows" these things and he said that the Nuke program is the toughest on the Sailors.... first on and last off!! and since he is married... perhaps there is a rainbow and blessing in disguise!!! We will see.. Ill be praying for him for the Right Place, Right Time!!!
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Terry... Im new too!! well at least to this WONDERFUL site here!!!!! Awesome women here!! GREAT support!!! The American Legion Riders have been doing care packages for 7 years ... then I found this site!!! hoooyaaaa! We are so happy to help these Sailors!!!! Terry.... if you can... can you tell me about your Sailor??? such a great picture... mine is of my boy! he is Air Rescue Swimmer
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Terry... sorry... not from SASSY... the blankets go to Afgan to a platoon we ALR support.. My SASSY kids are on the Bush... they are loving their boxes!! I was just sharing in general!!
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Robin... very kewl sista!!!! yes, last boxes we sent I packed skeletons and spiders and some halloween cards hahahah! Of course LOTS of candy and stuff! So, so far I have heard from two from the Bush and one from an army Reserve force of 60 we are supporting... they were sooooooo excited! Hope they get their blankets soon! GO NAVY ---- GO SASSY!!!!
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Okay just got an email from the second of my 5 Sailors on the Bush!!!! Very awesome! Now just 3 more to go. He said it took him a few days cause he was not sure what to say... so could be some are just bashful or off line so to speak
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Comment by Rhonda on September 22, 2011 at 1:35pm
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Kathy if yours is not posting on FB they may be in "River City". Anytime that happens it takes longer for letters & packages to arrive as we all know or are learning LOL!!
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Oh I plan on it & I did put my email address in cause I wanted to hear from her ASAP!! LOL
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Rhonda.... The first set of boxes I sent to my 3 kids... I forgot to give them my email but only just my physical address.. well, then I sent out round two of care packages and I rememebered to ask for an email from them.. sooo this am I got one!!!! He said in his email that he had mailed me a letter also after the first boxes got there but I never got it... sooooo perhaps your Sailor sent you a letter but like mine... it is lost in the system... try email... And we have been shipping Care Packages for 7 years and its seems that those beloved boxes take up to 2 month to receive depending upon where the boat is... This last bunch I sent only took 5 weeks... so keep on Rhonda! You will hear something soon Im sure!
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