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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 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:

RTC Graduation

**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.

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Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy Speak

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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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Scrapbookin' Navy Moms

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Any Navy Mom that enjoys scrapbooking

Members: 180
Latest Activity: Dec 22, 2021

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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on December 25, 2008 at 11:43pm: I'm excited ladies...I've been watching you from a far - seeing some of the awesome work that you have been doing. With good intentions of starting a scrapbook for our son, I've been collecting everything from the moment he signed his DEP papers and my Sailor bought me the "Navy" scrapbook that I had looked at months ago at Michaels.

So got the book, got the pages, even have the creativity but geeeeeeeez I don't mind telling you I'm a tad intimidated seeing/hearing the work of you pros! He'll be leaving next week for his C school so I'm commited to having it completed before his next graduation date. I can see how our dining room table is going to be put to good use!!!

Comment by Susan mom to Niko on December 10, 2008 at 1:10pm: Thanks Kathleen! That was the name of the mall... Gurnee Mills... really a huge place! You see lots of sailors wandering through!

Comment by Susan mom to Niko on December 9, 2008 at 4:16pm: There is a really big mall not too far from the base. I found Navy picture frames and scrapbook at the Hallmark type store in the mall. I did not however find a store with paper and stickers. I did find a great bumper sticker that I used. There are lots of stores with Navy shirts, bumper stickers, key chains, flags and more! Also the NEX (Navy Exchange) has lots of items like t-shirts, mugs, etc.

Comment by Susan mom to Niko on November 20, 2008 at 1:25pm: Our Michaels is also out of the navy scrapbook... I could kick myself as when we were in Great Lakes for PIR we went to the big mall that is close by... There were many stores in the mall that had wonderful Navy picture frames and scrapbook items. I bought a few but wish now that I had bought more...

Comment by Irene McClure on November 16, 2008 at 2:51pm: Hey scrapbookers-How are things going. I came up with a great idea that my daughter has really had a blast with-I scrapbook pages and and when I send my daughter a box then I send her the pages that I have done for her. She hangs them on her wall like wall paper-She said it gives her room personality. When she comes home or through out the next year she can send them home and all I have to do is slide them in a scrpbook and it's done.Now I am working on Thanksgiving-Christmas-Fall pages for her. Take pictures of old friends-places-pets-family and then the kids don't feel left out.I am even having her friends give me pic's to put on pages.It really is alot of fun and it cheers up the kids.Just a thought!

Comment by Vickie - Rooney's mom on October 31, 2008 at 2:53pm: I'm a novice scrapbooker. I only just started since my son went to bootcamp. I've looked at your pages for ideas (I'm not very artistic) and they have been very helpful. I got my Navy scrapbook at Michael's but I noticed that JoAnn's Fabrics has scrapbook supplies on their website also. I ordered some pages from a website someone posted here and they are very nice.

Comment by Irene McClure on August 31, 2008 at 5:46pm: This last picture- afriends of ours writes and he deadicated her Navy scrapbook to her by writing a poem .It's the last page of her book. I will down load them to my page then maybe you can see them better.