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
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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True To Our Vows
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This group is for the military spouses out there who stay true to their vows. Its also for support on advice and what not for you when you need it. Credit goes to BunkerBee's for the group name. =)
Location: San Diego, CA
Members: 39
Latest Activity: Nov 6, 2018
Discussion Forum
I MISS MY SAILOR. by:Amanda Knobbe
Started by Steph_Proud navy wife & momma =). Last reply by Christine Oct 24, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes
It's hard enough to say good-bye, And to know that time will crawl and NOT quickly fly. Falling asleep every night without you here,With nothing to comfort me and dry my tears.Gripping my pillow and…Continue
Navy Wives.
Started by Steph_Proud navy wife & momma =) Aug 8, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Dear Lord, give me greatness of heart to see, The difference between duty and his love for me.Give me a task to do each day,to help pass the time while he is away;Give me the understanding, so that I…Continue
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Comment by Steph_Proud navy wife & momma =) on August 8, 2010 at 1:34pm
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Hello everyone! Sorry about not being on here lately. This week has totally been hard on me. I have been so excited to be able to move to San Diego,CA this month! But recently one of the Petty Officers has been calling my husband telling him that it would just be best to talk me out of moving there with him. It upset me horribly. At that moment My husband told me what they said, I felt my heart sink farther than I ever thought possible. I already know that the first deployment is going to be hard, but I have known this for months now. I have prepared myself with the facts that I am going to have to go months-even possibly almost a year without him. But talking to you guys and hearing your advice and words of encouragement has risen my spirits and made me confident in what I am capable of handling. My husband and I have discussed it and we both want me to move there with him. I want to watch him ship out and I want to be there waiting for him when he comes back. But the task that I have accomplish today...Calling the PO today to explain to him why I want to move. To ensure him that I know that my actions DO reflect my husband and how he performs in the Navy. I am so scared that he will not accept my reasons. I want him to know and understand that staying in Indiana is not the right thing for me. I want to be around people who are going through the same situation as me. Does anyone have any words of advice or opinions??
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Comment by Mrs. Bonds (007) on August 7, 2010 at 8:13pm
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just joined wanted to say HELLO to everyone
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Comment by Alonya on August 7, 2010 at 2:23am
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Just joined!Hello everyone!
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Comment by BunkerQB on August 5, 2010 at 1:41pm
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What you gals do amaze and inspire me. I have two sons. I am blessed with having so many adopted N4M nieces. Let me (or Quiltlady, Katy or Wendy) know if you need anything. Quilt and I are in CA, Katy in VA and Wendy in IN. We were trying to do a second retreat in Monterey, CA but Quilt found out recently the suites were no longer available for us to book (by the day), so we are trying to come up with something else.
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Comment by proudnavy11 on August 5, 2010 at 2:47am
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yup bunkerbee invited me as well!
doesnt it just sound.. amazing when someone referes you as a "navywife" aahah
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Comment by annie on July 29, 2010 at 7:14pm
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That poem was great! It really expresses what i am going through! Thank you BunkerBee =)
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Comment by navywife1126 on July 29, 2010 at 11:49am
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Beautiful poem isn't it? And aint it the truth?
Just joined the group thanks to BunkerBee. Hope to meet some FABULOUS ladies.
Xoxo
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Jays NavyGirl is still in SD - they got married in March.
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I found this poem on navywife1126's page. I invited her to join this group. She is in Lemoore, CA and going through deployment.
The Navy Wife
A Navy Wife is no ordinary woman. Operating for months at a time without the companionship or assistance of her husband, she routinely overcomes challenges that would give the average person a nervous breakdown. Part Doctor, part Teacher and part Handyman, she can lavish loving care on a sick toddler, help a teenager with his Algebra homework, and track down a faulty circuit breaker -- all while holding down a full time job.
With thirty minutes notice, she can serve breakfast, lunch, or dinner to fourteen hungry Sailors, and still somehow balance her family's meager grocery budget. She can press a set of dress whites to inspection standards, tie a perfect square knot in a military neckerchief, and pack a seabag in the cold hours before dawn.
For months at a time, she must settle for letters instead of kisses, emails in place of hugs, and long-distance phone calls in lieu of her husband's touch.
She manages a smile when her Sailor is at sea for the second Anniversary in a row, and accepts the fact that there's a one-in-three chance that he will have to stand Duty on her Birthday.
She has learned to stand on a pier and wave goodbye without tears, even when her heart is breaking.
To her children, she is Chauffeur, Umpire, Psychologist, Spiritual Advisor, Financial Consultant, part-time Father, Tooth Fairy, Santa Clause, and the Easter Bunny. To her husband, she is Friend, Lover, Partner, Confidant, and Soul-Mate.
She is a patriot. She is the sort of citizen that all of us should be, but so few of us are. She lives with sacrifice, because she believes in the rights and ideals that her husband defends. Although she wears no uniform, she is a part of that defense -- a vital link in the chain of Freedom.
Although she wears no medals and will reap no glory on the field of battle, she is a hero in the truest sense of the word.
She is a Navy Wife.
~Unknown~
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P.S. Steph. love you photos. You would have really enjoyed the retreat too. You would have gotten along very well with the others.
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