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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Comment by Denise - browns57 on March 21, 2012 at 10:30am: Congrats Becky M on your son coming home next month. We were planning to go visit my son in San Diego this spring but now it looks like he is going to come home for a week before their deployment. I think we will plan a trip to see him after his deployment.

Comment by Denise - browns57 on March 13, 2012 at 8:22am: My son said Cranking is the ghetto term for FSA which means Food Service Assistant. He said every junior sailor has to crank for 90 days when arriving in a new duty station. He said its not too bad it just sucks because he isn't working with his LS crew.

Comment by mamabeans on March 12, 2012 at 6:59pm: So what is cranking?

Anyone know where to get a Logistics Challenge Coin? I have looked and not sure what I am looking for.

Comment by Denise - browns57 on March 12, 2012 at 3:30pm: A few weeks ago my son wrote on his facebook wall that he was cranking. I had no idea what he was talking about, I sent him a message asking if he was in trouble. He explained that its something all Junior Sailor's have to do when their new to their duty station. It worried me!

Comment by becky m on March 8, 2012 at 10:54pm: hi all just checkin in hope all is well with everyone...:) Im on the countdown 34 days till my sailor gets here...mine son wasn't there long enough for a visit....anyone have any good news??

Comment by mamabeans on March 7, 2012 at 7:55pm: Thanks for the info!

Comment by Lisa-Chris's Mom on March 3, 2012 at 1:44pm: I believe Chris was there longer than 12 weeks for 3 reasons, #1 when he arrived he was hospitalized with pneumonia, #2 he lost a few days having his wisdom teeth removed and 3rd the school closed for a week or so during Christmas. But is is self paced and better to take your time because I'm not sure how many times you can test if you fail.

We never visited either but Chris was able to come home for christmas seeing as tho the school was closed:)

Comment by Denise - browns57 on March 2, 2012 at 10:36am: Mamabeans - my son was there for LS school back in October. He was there for 7 weeks although I believe it took him alittle over 6 weeks to finish. It was my understanding that it was kinda self paced. Some of the other Sailors he was with were there longer than him.

Tiffany - We never visited Meridian while our son was there. I new of one set of parents that were able to go visit over the holiday. There was also another father that was a truck driver and past through, he was able to meet his son for dinner. It almost didn't happen because his son had trouble finding a liberty buddy on short notice.

My son had said that there is a small airport on base, one or two flights a day. Good luck to you.

Comment by Tiffany51908 on March 2, 2012 at 12:34am: I'm traveling to Meridian to visit my sailor and its turning out to be more complicated than i thought. Has anyone here ever traveled to the Meridian navy base??

Comment by mamabeans on March 1, 2012 at 11:07pm: The 16 week LS school in Mississippi... can he work really hard and progress through it quicker or will it take 16 weeks?