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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 proud Navy wife! on March 5, 2010 at 1:04am: sailorsdarlin- hehehe :0)
Mrs.SAILOR- THANKS for the tip about sitting @ PIR! You are amazing! So what about you and your husband? didnt you say he has class in the evenings? If they call liberty @ 4:30 and he has his mornings free he cant have liberty at all until the weekends?...

Comment by RicksWifeAmber on March 4, 2010 at 8:18pm: Gman did you decide when you were going down? I have found several little cottages to rent down there as well as a couple of efficiencies. Probably be a while before I move, but I think I will go down there in the next couple of weeks just for a visit.

Comment by proud Navy wife! on March 4, 2010 at 7:24pm: Sailorsdarlin- lol yeah, 2 thursdays sounds a lot better than 14 days. small #'s = happy me! :0)

Mrs.SAILOR- ok thx! (info about dog duty) thats good to know. Also thx for the insight about him being an AM. I have a twin sister who's hubby is Navy too (missle tech on a sub) so I have been asking them all these questions but he's been in 4 yrs and alot has changed sense he went thru and his A-school was so different. Its so great to get the perspective from another wife of an AM! So thank you so much!

So before he completes all those classes he cant phase up to leave base on weekends right? but he can still hang out w/me on base b4 he completes those classes right?

Comment by proud Navy wife! on March 4, 2010 at 1:39pm: sailorsdarlin- yup he flies out on the 20th. )o: Is your bf not grad & go? and yeah! see you in 2 thursdays! lol

emilylane- 1 week, ish? ok thanks! oh man dog doody sounds crappy (hehehe) lol. Will he know in advance when he is assigned dog duty? Well more like, How much in advance will he know his dog duty assignment? I would be heartbroken if I bought tickets and planned for going out there for a weekend just to find out a few days before that I couldnt even see him!

Comment by proud Navy wife! on March 4, 2010 at 4:56am: wowza! I leave to work and miss all the action!!!!

Gman: great job! this group is like a gold mine of info! EXACTLY what I needed! Oh! and you asked a ques earlier... you can totally use first names, both for your Sailor (your wife) and yourself, but if you want to share last names, do that in a private message...not in the public forum or discussions or anything... Also, you say 'chit' like 'chip' with a 't' at the end. lol And yes, I am going to PIR! DEFINATELY!!!! lol, 14 mas dias! ::0) so excited! And yeah I heard to get there early but I am taking the free shuttle fr:the Ramada and it doesnt leave until 7 I dont think.... :o( sadness...

so there are a lot of AM spouses on here! thats so great! I am so eager to find out more about life after bootcamp in regards to Aviation Mechanics and I dont even know where to start! lol. Thank you everyone for posting all your knowlege and info! I was begining to loose hope that I'd ever find things out, lol.

So is it pretty much the general consensus to wait a few days after your sailor arrives in A-school before coming to visit? Mario, my hubby, wants me to fly strait from his PIR to pensicola to be w/him, I am just scared, he wont be able to see me b/c of INDOC and getting assigned his barracks/moving in... He gets there on a Saturday, so when should I plan the soonest to be there? (and I live in AZ so I will have to fly & wanna know so I can buy my plane tickets soon, lol)

Mrs.SAILOR: you said you went 4 days after your husbands PIR? I THINK I can wait that long, lol! I have class anyways so he gets there on Sat maybe if I flew there after class thurs night? lol. Thank you so much for answering my question! I have been looking for like 2 weeks now! I have one more though if it's not too much trouble...is dog duty 1 day @ a time or is it like 2-3 days in a row that you have to do it...??? I am gonna think of it as 'dog doody' lmao...

SailorsDarlin: Its SO good to see a familiar face on here! lol. I didnt know your bf was gonna go to Pensicola for A-school. Our sailors will prob leave GL's together! Hopefully I'll get to meet ya @ the PIR, are you going to the meet and greet?

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on March 3, 2010 at 10:54pm: emilylane, I stole your posts and put them in a new discussion group. I hope others can input some info as well. If you have anything to add please do!!

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on March 3, 2010 at 10:46pm: so how do you say it?? I have doggy do on my mind when I read it. Is that how it is said??

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on March 3, 2010 at 10:27pm: emilylane, ok, I see CHIT for stuff in your room and for getting a room at Gateway lodge.
Can you explain the difference? You should be selling your knowledge!!

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on March 3, 2010 at 10:26pm: nice, stealing laundry, brings back memories of Germany. When I was stationed in Germany we had to watch our laundry or our draws got taken!! lol.....