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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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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:

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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USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

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Welcome family and loved ones of sailors serving on USS Kearsarge, homeport Norfolk, VA! Please be sure to review and observe the OPSEC guidelines below to keep our sailors safe :) Introduce yourself and join in the chat! Current group Admin: Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom

Location: Norfolk VA - and everywhere!
Members: 128
Latest Activity: Oct 19, 2022

USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

"Reveille to Taps" - This is a very cool three-minute timelapse video of Sailors performing their daily operations onboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge.

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Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on March 21, 2013 at 8:59pm: She's beautiful! Congratulations on her reenlistment, and having such an accomplished and goal-oriented daughter - how proud you must be!!

Comment by dms on March 20, 2013 at 6:02pm: my daughter will pcs to san diego in aug or sept she will leave the ship from wherever they are. she will fly to va then ca to see us before she signs in. she just re enlisted for 6 more years. she will have 5 yrs in this month and has made E-5. she is taking classes to get her AA . so proud she is doing well. and she is an MP picture Barbie with a badge. that's our daughter

Comment by Rob on March 20, 2013 at 2:32pm: Marcy the stories are mostly all good. I would not change a thing. Retirement aint too bad either but being retired I am still working 40 plus hours a week but I love what I do.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on March 20, 2013 at 12:55pm: Happy news Angelika! Rob, thanks for your service; bet you have some stories to tell for sure. DMS - Google Alerts are great!

Comment by Rob on March 20, 2013 at 11:49am: Hard to believe it was 10 years ago today I was on Kearsarge for the War in Iraq. It was a very crazy 2 days of running flight ops. Hope they have a safe cruise this time. Thanks for keeping us free Folks.

Comment by dms on March 20, 2013 at 11:40am: you can receive google alerts for any ship. I find it very interesting

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on March 12, 2013 at 9:21pm: And away they go! Fair winds and following seas; bless them all, and their families and loved ones :)

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on March 12, 2013 at 1:07pm: Welcome Brenda! Are you and your daughter-in-law on the Facebook pages for the FRG and the Ombudsman? Links are above in the Discussion Forum.

Comment by brenda.elaine on March 11, 2013 at 6:55pm: I don't think that she does. She just moved back to CA from VA a few weeks ago. She's living with her parents.

Comment by brenda.elaine on March 11, 2013 at 6:32pm: Awesome, Sindy. Thanks for that info! I just requested to receive updates from the Ombudsman. My son is going to miss out on the birth of his firstborn, a baby boy, due in only 3 weeks. :-( My own husband did not return from a deployment with the Seabees until our daughter was 5 months old, so I remember vividly the sacrifice of separation. It's hard.