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.
sassy@navy4parents.com
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Comment by Rhonda on September 21, 2011 at 1:53pm
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It's been about 6 weeks since I sent my letter & have not heard a thing so I'm going to go ahead & send something else & see if that gets a reply!!
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Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on September 21, 2011 at 10:21am
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Wooooooooooooooooooooooooow where is everyone??? I finally got an email from one of my 4 Sailors! hooooooooooyaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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Yea Terry...!!!!!! sweet... sending out round 2 to our 3 sailors and a new 2 sailors tomorrow..... stupid me... I sent a self address envelop and a nice letter and pictures and etc... but forgot the email address.. ugggggg so have not heard from ours yet but Im soo confident that they got all their boxes and will soon hear from them!!! hoooyaaaa
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Comment by jill on August 31, 2011 at 11:33am
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can you please verify a zip code that i was given, in reading post office, they stated there should be a 9 digit number. mine is only 5..... thank you
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Carole... I just sent you an email for two more Sailors that are in need that no one else has mailed too... to add to our three! God bless you on that back surgery.. I need it badly but Im too chicken! let me know how it goes...
kathy... well, honestly our group has been doing this for 10 years and I can tell you some times it takes about 6 to 8 weeks to get to them... sometimes they get to Afgan faster than they do to the fleet hahah! so hang in there!
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Robin.. very kewl.. Im mailing a letter to my 3 Sailors to ask if they got the packages (should have by now) I sent them letters but I can remember if I gave them my email.. so Im sending email address in my letter so Ill hopefully hear back next month or perhaps before! I know I cant wait for that commuication! Yous is also on the George Bush?? Message me and tell me about the ship and where they are based on his email... that will give me some insite too!
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Comment by bryters ATI Whidbey Island on August 25, 2011 at 12:15pm
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How do I get a name?
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Lovemy... robin got an email ... I have not heard from my three sailors but Im hopeful that Ill hear soon... Ms Robin heard from hers! hooooyaaa!!! Even if they do not write or email .. believe me they are soo thankful.. some are bashful and some just dont know what to say.... But Im sooo hoping to hear soon from at least one of them!!!!
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Comment by Lovemynavyson (Ship02/DIV933) on August 20, 2011 at 11:32am
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YAH for you Lydia!!! I'm excited for you...that is so wonderful that he emailed you....
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Robin... so true!!! Lots of logistics involved... I know the RSS boys often are involved in that... so Im being patient! hahaha
Lovemy... I gotta feeling Imma get at least one letter! I hope anyway!! Ill let yall know for sure!!!
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