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
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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For any woman waiting for the return of her sailor, be it from boot camp, A school, or a deployment!
Location: Good Old Red White & Blue!
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Latest Activity: Jul 31, 2015
Discussion Forum
In need of advise
Started by Jasmine<3. Last reply by Jo (Wife of an ET Radioman) Dec 14, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Missing THE phone call
Started by SAwife11. Last reply by frogmansgirl Oct 7, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Where to start
Started by HoldFast86 (Ship 12 Div 325). Last reply by Mrs Eubank Aug 14, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
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Comment by MeLaNiE on February 5, 2011 at 10:06pm
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haha youre doing better than me then. lol we moved up here Dec 28th and my husband left for this work up on the 18th, which was exactly one month from the day we got married. so he hasnt been here and i dont have clue where anything is at.My friend called me because she needed a ride home from work(her husband had duty) she had to give me play by play directions. it is a vast area and i will admit it takes a while to learn your way around. But moving in together is exciting and im sure you will learn your way around quickly. Its just the drivers you have to worry about in Va beach/Norfolk. They are awful.
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Comment by NavySweetheart11 on February 5, 2011 at 9:57pm
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Oh wow, I bet that has been a big adjustment for you! I don't live in Norfolk, but we plan on moving in together after he gets back from the deployment. Even though it's going to be a while before that happens, I'm nervous because I'm from a really small town and Norfolk is a big city for me, lol. He usually comes home on the weekends if he doesn't have duty since I live about 3 1/2 hours away from there. I'm not really familiar with the area either...I just know how to get to MacArthur Center, lol.
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I know the feeling. Do you live in Norfolk also? It is so boring up here. haha im from Georgia and moving up here has tossed me for a loop.
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Yayyy! Haha, I'll be so ready for them to come home! Time has been dragging on for me, it feels like they've been gone forever.
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My husband is on USS Bush also.
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Melanie: He is on the Bush; what about yours?
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LovingMySailor2011: Hi Brittany! what ship is your husband on if you dont mind me asking. My husband is underway also so im just curious they may be on the same one.
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Hey guys, I'm Brittany and I'm new to the group. My boyfriend is stationed in Norfolk, VA and he is currently underway. Hope yall have a great weekend :)
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aww samantha thats great. my husband is gone right now also but he deploys in May so i know the feeling. He is on the USS Bush. He was supposed to call lastnight but Verizon towers were down and he couldnt get through :( because i had no service and neither did the rest of Va
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Comment by SamanthaF on February 5, 2011 at 9:20pm
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Im soo excited. My sailor is deployed right now, and he just got my first two boxes today!!! I could not be in a better mood. I sent a teddy bear with my perfume on it, and he told me he forgot how much he loved that smell. I feel like im on cloud 9, I sent money so now he should be able to get a calling card so I can hear his voice. YAYAY
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