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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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Spouses of Sailors going to A-school in P-cola

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This is a group mainly for spouses of sailors that are going to school in Pensacola. This will be a place where spouses can ask and answer questions that effect spouses of sailors while they are stationed at Pensacola.

Members: 132
Latest Activity: Jan 19, 2019

Various links to military stuff.

FAQ page on the Per Diem, Travel, and Transportation Allowance Commitee website
Here is a link that you will need to check out. It is a FAQ about PCS moves and what $$'s are available.

Per Diem, Travel, and Transportation Allowance Commitee main page

My Base Guide

Space A Travel Eligibility
Ok, this is a very important link and I hope it stays valid if I forget to update it. Just so everybody knows, legal dependents are now allowed to travel Space A while their military sponsor is on deployment orders. If you don't know what this is it is very simple. You can fly at little cost almost anywhere in the world on a government aircraft. You sign up on a list and wait for your number to be called. So, if your sailor is deployed to say, Japan, you can jump on a Space A flight to Japan for say 30 dollars. I don't know the exact amount, but it is cheap. Take a look at this, Google Space A travel, you will get all the answers you need. If you have more questions, ask.

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Comment by Gman Navy Husband on March 16, 2010 at 12:18am: I do have a question about P-cola as a place to live. Is it always windy there?? I thought it was really windy this past weekend.

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on March 16, 2010 at 12:10am: Ok, Chrisbunny, I don't remember if I asked about this before but can you tell me about BB status?? I am assuming you mean brown bagger and my wife is hoping to get it next week if she phases up. How does it work, what do they have to do, etc.??

One other question, if they are not phase 3 how are they supposed to get on base if they cannot have a car until phase 3 but are bb status??? I asked my wife and she has no idea.

Oh yeah, I got a small place this past weekend. I am at home in Iowa right now, but driving back down tomorrow night with the rest of my wife's things.

Also, if you all stay down there the water co. wants you to show up in person with the deposit before turning on the water!! I wish I would have known that before I drove a thousand miles home!! One other reason I am going back a day early. I just got here today, MONDAY!! My drive is 18 hours straight down with only stopping for gas!!

Comment by proud Navy wife! on March 15, 2010 at 4:16pm: I got my 'I'm a Sailor' call today!!! Im officially married to a sailor!!! Yeahhhh!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by proud Navy wife! on March 14, 2010 at 5:18am: I know! I read that in the PIR page! OMG I would TOTALLY walk up to mario and punch him if he did that to me! well kiss him then punch him. kiss, hug, then punch.. ok cry my eyes out, kiss, hug, punch. Whatever! he would definately get hit him if he did that to me! lol you poor thing! Yeah all the guys he was telling that he was gonna do that to you were right! They said you'd be upset and heart palpitations = upset. what a test on your part. lol. you passed w/flying colors girly! congrats! :0)

Comment by proud Navy wife! on March 13, 2010 at 2:38am: sailorsdarlin - YEAH!!!!!!!! and happy b-day hunter! lol. poor guy. 12 hr gruelsome test on his b-day. memorable to say the very least! :o) you must be so relieved the wait is over on that regard.. Now just these last 5 days to knock out of the way! lol Congrats!

Comment by RicksWifeAmber on March 12, 2010 at 2:48pm: keeping my fingers crossed ;-)

Comment by RicksWifeAmber on March 12, 2010 at 2:47pm: Mrs. Sailor- he passed his test to phase up last night too! woohoo so he is now Phase 2. I haven't talked to him yet today but he actually started AWAT today. I really hope he does class up soon. It would be better than me moving to FL and then turning around and moving once we receive PCS orders.
but..... a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do- lol

Comment by proud Navy wife! on March 12, 2010 at 2:16am: Mrs. SAILOR - soo... does that mean he is on shore duty!!???!! or at least not very deploy-able? lol. hopefully!!!!

Comment by RicksWifeAmber on March 11, 2010 at 5:49pm: Found out today Rick starts AWAT tomorrow... maybe this is a good thing?

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on March 11, 2010 at 11:24am: Ok, my wife just told me about this yesterday and this is important information for you and your sailors if they have pre service loans and other financial obligations.

There is a Federal Relief Act called the Service Members Civil Relief Act and it is for helping with debt. Good idea to take a look at it and remind them if they have debt with interest rates higher than 6% to get it modified down to 6%.

Here are some links to the information.

Service Members Civil Relief Act Simplified

Service Members Civil Relief Act full version