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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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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Any questions regarding DEP, boot camp, A school or in between can hopefully be answered here. I myself was in boot camp from June-August of '09 and am now stationed in Norfolk, Va. This site helped my mother so much, its my time to return the favor.

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"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child." - Sophia Loren

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Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on October 7, 2010 at 1:29pm: niauz- for the picture, right click, save as, save the file. then go to
www.tinypic.com then click upload, and find the file in your pictures then type in the little code, then copy the HTML code(should be the first code listed) and paste that wherever you wanted to paste it at(:

Comment by niauz(Proud Sailor Mom) on October 7, 2010 at 5:45am: Cindy22- thanks I will ask that in the next letter or phone call!

Marcy~corpsman Mom- I love the telephone I wonder if I can copy and paste it?
thankyou for the compliment my SR is my baby wouldn't miss it for the world! As you know it's exspensive to live in paradise it will probably take me a year to pay off this trip! LOL But the memories will be priceless I get excited the closer PIR gets miss him a lot!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 6, 2010 at 4:32pm: Niauz, I lived in Hawaii Kai for two years, many years ago - when my sailor was a toddler in fact. So many great memories of living there. My hat's off to you for making the trip to PIR - you're a wonderful Navy mom!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 6, 2010 at 2:20am: For all you boot camp and A school moms ;)

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 6, 2010 at 1:59am: I don't know for sure. Go to Youtube and enter "navy PIR honor guard" in quotation marks and watch the videos. One tip - take a small pair of binoculars! It can be hard distinguishing your sailor from the rest - sounds crazy but it's true. Once they get in their spots, you can scan and be sure who's yours.
There will be signs in front of each set of bleachers for each division so you know where to sit, if that helps.
Last but not least, tell your sailor to stay in his spot and you'll find him after Liberty Call.

Comment by niauz(Proud Sailor Mom) on October 6, 2010 at 1:11am: Marcy~Corpsman Mom- thanks!

Does anyone know where the honor Guard is positioned in the graduation. Will we be able to see them up close?

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 6, 2010 at 1:10am: I don't recall if my sailor was present when I arrived or if he came later to show his ID (it was three years ago) - ask if there's a grace period.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 6, 2010 at 1:08am: Here's the "Who can stay" policy - https://www.navy-lodge.com/policy.html
You can call the GL Navy Lodge directly with questions, 847-688-3500.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on October 6, 2010 at 1:03am: You need to be checked in by your sailor (sponsor). Here's a link to Navy Lodge FAQs: https://www.navy-lodge.com/faq.html