This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
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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This site is for ETs & FTs & STS who are in the submarine field. My son is an ET/COMM
Members: 259
Latest Activity: Oct 22, 2021
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Started by Sailormom01. Last reply by Sailormom01 Sep 17, 2019. 2 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by joy@n4m on February 2, 2013 at 9:02am
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Hello! Thank you for all the information...My son is in boot camp PIR on 2/8/2013. I 'm so proud of him and thank God for his guidance and protection..before he start i felt a little nervous and don't know where to start this is all new to me. right after his first call and let me know "Mom I'm Here" you will receive a package.. then hang up my tears started to fell and had emotional feeling..then receive his first letter and the package I got some information and started to connect and research about Navy its interesting.. now he told that he is happy, doing great and ready to graduate and I'm so grateful and patiently waiting for his call "Mom I'm a Sailor" so excited for PIR ..he mentioned that he is going to school and train for his job SECF. i am curious!! whats this? he never explain what this mean.. then i found this link.. Thank you so much..
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Comment by missin'mybrowneyedboy on November 18, 2012 at 1:50am
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Hi KikiOtter, that sounds like a big change from when my son was there. At that time(early/late fall '11), all the talk was about elimenating both ATT and TCNO. Maybe they(the Navy) decided TCNO needs to be instructor lead because sooo many guys do not pass that class and they want to improve the graduation rate? My son nicknamed TCNO "the beast" and by far the most challenging of anything he needed to conquer while in Groton. Adding an extra month to schooling is a drag but might make the "A" school seem like a breeze: )
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Comment by KikiOtter on November 16, 2012 at 5:51pm
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anyone else have a sailor waiting to class up for TECHNO? Rumor is it's going back to instructor lead from CBT. :/ Which basically means even if they could have done the CBT in about a month, it could be about 2 months of class being instructor lead. Just curious if this is what you all heard too
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Comment by babs on November 13, 2012 at 2:04pm
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Hello, my son just received his orders for the USS Ohio in Washington. He will be graduating sub school on Nov. 30th. Anyone else have a son or daughter on the OHIO.
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Comment by Daniella on October 17, 2012 at 4:03am
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Hello ZAM's Girl! welcome to the group:) and I'm so excited for you guys' marriage next year! congrats!! Being sub gf is pretty tough, but I think it also helps us to build the strong and better relationship, so if you need a help, or wanna talk about anything, we're here for you! :D
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Oh, ZAM's Girl, I'm glad that was useful information to you and you could esaily change the profile name w/o losing "him&you" together! So, all the info under "pages" on the sub moms site is very interesting. It will help in learning the rates, correct definition/differences btwn "shore duty" vs simply not being out on an underway. etc and there is a chart that details how many months for sea/shore based on number of enlistment(1st, 2nd, etc). All cool stuff. Well, good luck again: )
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Comment by ZAM's Mrs-to-be on October 15, 2012 at 1:51pm
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Thanks missin, I am new to all of this and trying to learn quickly:) I appreciate the helpful info. I'll check out the groton site, that sounds great!
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Hi ladies, I'm not a mom, but a girlfriend and I want to thank you all for the support! I love my boyfriend's mom, and can't imagine the pride and range of emotions she experiences with her two military sons! My boyfriend just finished BESS, and is waiting for the next step. I know his rate is FT, but my knowledge there is limited. Any help, info, advice, guidance would be greatly appreciated! I love him so much and am so incredibly proud of him. We are planning on getting married next year, since I will be finishing my degree in May. But I want to learn all I can to be the best support I can be!
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Comment by Rhonda8881 on October 6, 2012 at 11:26pm
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Gayle, my son is on his 2nd DEPLOYMENT!!!!!!!!!! He has been underway many times.
Finally talked to my sailor today for the first time in 7 weeks. He is in port for a few days. We have chatted on FB over the last 2 or 3 days but it took him this long to find a phone he could use! The last leg of his deployment was completely silent the entire time, which has never happened to us before. It was a little strange but I knew he must be working hard if there was no communication. He said they were definitely working hard.
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Hi everyone, I got an email today!!!!! Hallelujah! He said he was healthy(gotta love that he wanted to reassure me: ) and he would now be able to communicate a little more frequently(and gotta love that, too!!) As others have suggested, flag your emails in some way(date/number) as mine arrived in bursts and in no particular order(unflagged) so he said he was trying to decipher what was what! Hey, I just figure I sent him a puzzle to help keep him sharp: )
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