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:
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
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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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VFA25 Fist of the Fleet
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A group for those with loved ones in VFA25.
Members: 9
Latest Activity: Nov 26, 2018
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Comment by Shacha on November 26, 2018 at 10:12pm
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My AO son is a member of VFA-25. Anybody else active here? Hello :)
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Comment by Laura on February 2, 2012 at 9:15pm
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Hi Christa! You can send him anything that wont spoil or melt. I have a great website to order Jerky from if he likes that, they give a special military discount. I send my son his favorites: cookies, candy, pretzels, pringles, microwave popcorn, marshmellows, jerky, pretzels, all his favorites! I'm glad he says he is doing well. Feel free to send me a pm if you need anything else!
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Comment by Christa (Proud Navy Mom) on February 2, 2012 at 9:11pm
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Hi, everyone. I just received an email from my son! He is doing well and says that life on the ship is not bad. (He's been on the ship for a week so far.) He has asked for snacks - but was not specific. Any thoughts or ideas on what would be good to include in his first care package??
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Hi Ladies! Just stopping in to see how you all are doing. January is almost done, one month closer to having all our guys back home with us!
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Just stopping in to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I hear some of our guys have started to get packages...I hope that they all get their goodies !!
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Enjoy your time with him home! We did our holidays in October when he was here before they left, it seemed odd to alot of people then, but it wasn't to us. Although, I must say that now I'm pretty much over that huge tree in my living room....lol....
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Thanks Laura and Nalashome! I really appreciate the warm welcome and all of the information. We are planning to celebrate Christmas with our son over the 10 days that he will be home (before reporting to the squadron). But I know that we will want to send him care packages. I definitely don't want him to think we have forgotten about him!
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Thanks Rhonda, but we are all in this "boat" together....you help me so much too!
Christa, once he gets to the squadron let me know, and I will get you the information for the squadron ombuds and the ship ombuds. Those emails sometimes can be comforting as well.
My NavyDude, as I refer to him, got his Christmas boxes on Jan. 18 last year, and they were mailed in November. Yet come March they were only taking three weeks....don't try to figure it out, just go with it. Use the military flat rate boxes from the post office, they are your best "bang for the buck". I have found some websites that offer free shipping to FPO/APO addresses as well. I'm going to order some jerky this weekend to go to him out there, he will love that. :)
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Comment by nalashome{ship 09 Div 130) on December 2, 2011 at 12:44am
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He should, if not we can figure it out with his name and rank. Remind him before he goes, also, when you send care packages it can take awhile to get there. My son did not get his Christmas package on time, and I cried. He will get them eventually. He knows you love him, check your email everyday and answer within 24 hours or you might get an email like mine " Hello? Mom!" LOL.
Also, check the Carl Vinson facebook page, you might see a picture with your son in it. Enjoy the 10 days. Be strong.
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Thanks so much Nalashome! AZ stands for Aviation Maintenance Administrationman. I assume my son will know how to set-up his Navy email, correct? I'll ask him about the address. He recently said that he will be deployed soon after joining the squadron. He is so excited and my husband and I are so happy for him.
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