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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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Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Please, please remember before you post: our sons are part of a Special Operations community, even while in training, and it is vitally important to form the habit of not divulging any information that could possibly compromise the safety of any of their members. This would especially apply to names, dates, places, procedures, etc. You might like to read the "Discussion Forum" titled "OPSEC" for some guidance. If you are still in doubt, please ask one of our members for their opinion by private message before you post. We are here to help each other, but we must be careful at all times.

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Comment by amber1321 on July 9, 2014 at 1:23pm: Travis I think your son and my husband went through it together last time..or knew each other I can't remember it's been so long. Thank you Quitting is far from his mind. Since he got out 3 years ago or so it has been the only thing he has focused on. Getting back and getting through it.

Comment by Zephyr mom on July 9, 2014 at 10:13am: My son finished in January. I can't imagine going through that at this time of the year. I remember that I waited each day to see if he got thru. It is a grueling, one day at a time existence. I will pray for both you and your husband to have the inner strength you need during this time.

Comment by amber1321 on July 8, 2014 at 2:56pm: Does anyone have a son or husband going through BCT right now? My husband is on day 2 of bct. Three years ago when he did this I was in fl. This time I'm here in California with him. Let me just say I knew this was not easy on them but being here and seeing for my self the toll it takes on him physically and emotionally gives me a whole new level of respect for these men.

Comment by BeachBeth on May 13, 2014 at 8:21pm: Thanks Zephyr mom. He is just starting CQT, so there is time, but we are going out at the end of this month to hang out for the weekend. We haven't seen him since the Holidays, so really looking forward to that. For the graduation, we will go out a couple of days before--mainly because we're getting too old to do those one day turn arounds.

Thanks for the info.

Comment by Zephyr mom on May 12, 2014 at 11:43pm: By the way @ BeachBeth we went out the weekend before and were able to spend some time with our son before the ceremony. There is a dinner for the parents the night before which is very nice.

Comment by Zephyr mom on May 12, 2014 at 11:27pm: @Dee Hope you had a nice day too!
@ BeachBeth Wow what an exciting time for you! My son graduated at the beginning of the year and we were done by noon or 1 at the latest... You should be able to catch a flight, too bad the time change won't be in your favor. Enjoy the ceremony, it really is wonderful.

Comment by BeachBeth on May 6, 2014 at 8:35pm: Hello to all. Our son is in CQT and we have the graduation date, but not the time. It's on Friday, but our other son is getting married on Saturday. Lucky for us they are only on both sides of the country. Anyway, if the graduation is in the morning, then we can fly back out that evening and get to the wedding the next day. Any info?

By the way, he is loving it. We had no idea that this man was inside of our boy.

Thanks for any help.

Comment by BlessedMom on April 2, 2014 at 11:00am: Navy_gf2012, thank you! I receive your prayers for my W and my family!! <3 Everyone have a very blessed day, may God continue to protect and encamp His angels around our SWCC sons past, present & future in training & deployed! <3

Comment by BlessedMom on April 2, 2014 at 10:42am: He has a lot on his plate, you are a ways from graduation if he's still at GL...Trust all of us when we say he has a road ahead of him. He will greatly need your prayers & support to become a candidate for BCT. Please don't worry about pinning ceremony now. Navy_gf2012, he going to need your stoic love & support to get him through qualification & training. These men our sons are our the elite of the elite it's beyond comprehension what God has blessed them to do. So trust me when I say, no worries, take it one evolution at a time! God bless & good luck!