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
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Don't discuss future destinations or ports of call!
Don't discuss future operations or missions!
Don't discuss dates and times of when we will be in port or conducting exercises!
Don't discuss readiness issues and numbers!
Don't discuss specific training equipment!
Don't discuss people's names and billets in conjunction with operations!
Don't speculate about future operations!
Don't spread rumors about operations!
Don't assume the enemy is not trying to collect information on you so he can kill you, he is!
Be smart, use your head, and always think OPSEC and COMSEC when using email or phone!
Rules of thumb for parents and loved ones:
*If your sailor indicates to you they can't tell you something, believe them. Don't try to coax them into telling.
*If it is published by the navy about where a ship or unit has been (not going), that is when it's okay to share.
*If your sailor is in a high security area, say a nuke or EOD, consider using a nick name for them and you, a seperate email without your name on it, and don't even tell where YOU live. Let them tell you what they want you to tell others or if they are worried about info, always let them know you are on here. That's why they are careful on here about only putting first names on your profile page.
*Be aware, the OPSEC 10 points are about what they can't talk about. Think about what YOU might share as a parent or loved one of a military member that could cause trouble. You also have a responsibilty.
*Be respectful and teach other parents if they don't know and say too much, no need to be disrespectful or mean to them about it. Just guide them and let them know they maybe need to rewrite or delete the post. There isn't a member on here that wants to cause trouble or harm. They just aren't thinking or don't know.
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Comment by Barbara C on February 1, 2009 at 11:41pm
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Hi, I just talked to my Seabee CM, Will, before he deploys to Cuba. He wishes he were going further from home. Right now Cuba sounds good and safe to his mom. When I mentioned that a CM deployed to Africa lost his grandmother Will asked who then started naming names they are all his friends. I guess they are all in the same battalion. I am commenting in order to pass on Will's and my sympathies to Mark and his family. We are praying for you.
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Comment by Kelleypen on February 1, 2009 at 11:03pm
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My son is in D'jibouti. He is 10 hours ahead of us, but I talked to him tonight. He's sad, but doing all right. He says D'jibouti is a mess . . . and very very backward. No good roads. Trash on the streets. He's sleeping in a big furnished box.
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Thank you, to all of you.
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His commander said no. So he's off to Africa. I still have my husband and my daughters. So I'll be ok. I just wish he had someone to hug him.
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I contacted the red cross. they will let the commander know and Mark will have the option of going to the funeral if he chooses.
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about 600 miles . .. thank you for your sympathies.
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i just got a call that my mom just died. mark is deploying today. this is too much.
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It's interesting. In my husband's direct line, they gave service to their faith--husband, his brothers, both his parents, his grandfather, and his great grandpa. But in my direct line, the service is to country--my son, brother, dad, uncles, grandfather. I think both kinds of service lead to a better world and makes the server a better person. I just have to keep reminding myself that. (By the way, through my family's service, the only branch of the service we are missing is the Coast Guard.)
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Thank you Sally and Joanne. I'm just overwhelmed with the need to hug him. He's my baby and only boy. His sisters haven't been entirely helpful. But I just keep reminding myself that I'm a patriot, as is my son. As a seabee, he is not only serving his country, but also the world through their humanitarian service projects.
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I'm at work and I just teared up. I need to teach. Students are coming in. But my mind and heart on with my son. I didn't think I'd take his first deployment hard, and I am extremely proud of him, but sending him to Africa for six months while his new little wife and step son stays here is hard. I'm going to take good care of them though. They're invited to dinner every Sunday. I hope he at least doesn't worry about that.
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