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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Any Navy Mom that enjoys scrapbooking
Members: 180
Latest Activity: Dec 22, 2021
Discussion Forum
Memorabilia for your Sailor's Scrapbook
Started by Sierrascrapper (ETN2). Last reply by PKM Apr 17, 2018. 7 Replies 2 Likes
Smashbook
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Comment Wall
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Comment by Susan mom to Niko on February 27, 2009 at 12:12am
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keep asking... you might just be shocked when he comes home with a full memory card for you
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It is true... some bases only allow indoor pictures. Of course no pictures when equipment is 'open' or being worked on. After PIR I wanted a picture of the Great Lake sign... so I walked over to closer to the gate to get the sign only... boy can the guys with the guns move quickly! They explained no pics of the gates were allowed. I showed them it was only the sign nothing else but they still had me delete the picture. Safety and security is taken very seriously!
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Welcome Valley! It is easy to be overwhelmed! Just start small... look at others pages and use their ideas until you discover what you like and looks right to you! Remember the pages are to bring a smile of remembrance of the time and place to you and your family... There is no right and wrong!
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Each and every one of you need to have your sailors take you for a tour of the closest NEX (Navy Exchange). They have great deals on all kinds of things and especially electronics! It is usually one of the first things that sailors discover with their paychecks! tehehehe
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Those are great ideas! I also asked my son to take lots of pictures for me... I got pictures of his room and buddies... however he was the picture taker!!! Silly boy! Remind your sailor to have someone take pictures of him! That is what his mom really wants to see!
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There is no time in boot camp for pictures. Once bootcamp begins they will break them down pretty hard. Lots of physical tests and little sleep to begin. The days are really full learning how to do things the navy way. From physical fitness, to folding and stowing your clothes. Then there is ironing, cleaning, more cleaning and more physical fitness. They are not allowed anything like a camera. You will receive in a box everything your son goes to boot camp with. His Ipod, phone, watch, pants, shirt, underwear, socks, shoes, etc... There is a list of what they are allowed to take. Have you been on the boot camp web site?
The good news is there will be an official photographer that takes their division picture and their individual pictures. They also take pictures for the 'yearbook' called 'The Keel". They put one together for each graduating class. Your sailor can order a copy of the Keel when they have pictures taken. It will contain pictures of their sleeping quarters, induction, uniform fittings, swim test, cleaning the head (bathroom), mailcall, etc. The pictures are of all the divisions that are going through. My son is pictured in quite a few! I scanned those and put them in his scrapbook also!
Be sure to have your son order what pictures of him and his division and the keel he wants as they only print as many as they sell. He can also order a dvd of the PIR (Pass In Review-graduation) ceremony. All the pictures will arrive to your sailor shortly before PIR. His dvd of the ceremony is mailed home.
When you are on base check where you are allowed to take pictures. I got in big trouble taking a picture outdoors one time. Thank goodness it was digital and I only had to delete it.
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Welcome Christine! First piece of scrapbooking advice... take lots and lots of pictures and save everything! By everything I mean ticket stubs, letters, cards, notes from his DEP classes and more! My sons know to bring those items home and I have a little box on my scrapbooking desk that they just toss them into.
Pictures to take... your son swearing in when he does his final enlistment... picture with his recruiter... In front of the house before he leaves... the box of his clothes and personal items when it is shipped home from boot camp... and of course PIR (Pass In Review-bootcamp graduation) is just one picture taking moment after another! Take a look through some of the pages that are posted above to see what some of the really talented moms from this group have put together.
Then your fun starts... putting together your book!
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I love the dollar aisle at Michaels! Always something new and fun! My nieces (ages 2 and 3 and 6) love to come over and I can afford to let them scrap with me to their hearts content this way!
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Barbara... just checked out the creating military memory site... found some great stickers for the postcard scrapbook that I am putting together for my adopted sailor! Bought some great paper and other items for my sons scrapbook also! Thanks for the link!
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A great web site for military scraping supplies is 'scrap your trip'. They have awesome customer service and a great assortment of supplies. They will also design/find things if you ask!
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