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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 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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PACT Moms

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Let's chat about our wonderful sons and daughters who have chosen the PACT program.

Members: 222
Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2022

Hello

It has been a long time since I have posted and I am sorry. I hope everyone has been able to connect with others in the PACT program. My son is now 3 and a half years in and it has been a great experience. He thought he wanted to be an AM. When he got on the ship, he was put with the AO’s. Now he is an AD3. It was best for him to start PACT because we didn’t know much about the Navy and he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. This has been a good route for him.

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Comment by ReneeHum on February 16, 2017 at 5:52pm: Tieranyyy- my son after BC went to Florida then stationed in Point Mugu ,CA. He's been there over 1 year now. Its pot luck where he will go. It will be ok just hang on and put a question mark after everything he tells you...

Comment by Michael on February 16, 2017 at 5:38pm: There is no way to request a place he goes where the needs of the navy go. Since he's a PACT majority of them go to Norfolk or San deigo. Because he has no rate.

Comment by ReneeHum on February 16, 2017 at 4:06pm: Hello Tieranyyy, good luck and no he will find out by 7 weeks into BC. or after he take last test . Good luck

Comment by TieranyC on February 16, 2017 at 11:57am: Hello everyone! My husband is doing the PACT thing. He will leave for BC in April & should be done by June and we should be stationed somewhere by then. Is there anyway to request and/or KNOW where we could be stationed?

Comment by MamaValley on February 10, 2017 at 4:23pm: Hi - We are almost 2 years into our youngest son's Navy choice. He went in as an A-PACT because he felt this could be his way to get to the planes. We too had heard negative things about the PACT piece but he seems to be ok with it.

His least favorite thing was cranking but now that it is over he doesn't have really harsh things to say about it. And it taught him a lot about the kitchen... something he wasn't interested in when he lived at home. So that was a positive in my eyes.

He has done a couple different things and he likes what he is doing know. He was hoping to go into rescue swimming but he hurt his shoulder while on leave and I have a feeling that is not going to be in the cards for him now.

They will be deploying soon so we will learn how that piece works... not hearing from him for long periods of time. I feel like it will be like it was when he was in boot camp. I am ready to buy some fun stationary and get the right boxes from the post office so we can send care packages!

This choice he made has made a man out of a boy... I can see the changes. He went in laid back and has come home on leave much more self assured and a bit more focused.

Hope that helps!

Comment by Proud mama on February 10, 2017 at 4:03pm: My son just joined going is as undes. Leaving for BC in April. I'm glad I found this group. It has calmed some of my fears.

Comment by fayegirrl4* on December 8, 2016 at 12:17am: ChristinaMarie-- our oldest son wanted to go to Hawaii ( it was his #1 pick) but ended up at Kings Bay. He likes it and so do we because we can visit him ( just a SHORT 12 hour drive one way) a little more often than usual. LOL

Comment by fayegirrl4* on December 8, 2016 at 12:15am: Thanks for the advice, ChristinaMarie! I guess I am just an over anxious mom. I have complete faith in our son that just left. We always want the best for our kids and I hope our son gets a chance to prove what he can do so he can chose a rate that makes him happy.

Comment by ChristinaMarie (Ship 14/Div 298) on December 7, 2016 at 11:40pm: Fayegirrl4 - I have a son who is S-PACT and his PIR was just in August. I had mixed feelings as well but trusted my sons ability to make his own decisions and he had faith in his choice despite the negativity (and there is SO much of that)! He has since been stationed at Little Creek, VA and he is land based. He absolutely loves it. I also have an older son who is Stationed at Pearl Harbor, HI on the USS Hopper (currently deployed). He is a GM (Gunners Mate) and even he is jealous of his brothers orders. So keep the faith and stay positive! It will be hard work like anything else and it will be what he makes of it!! Proud of these "kids!" :)

Comment by Michael on December 2, 2016 at 8:28pm: All PACT programs are the same now that ratings are gone. So if your undes that's what you are. Just make sure he talks to his career councler on the ship he is assigned. My husband is undes and he's in the engineering unit having to do DC tell him that he will also do cranking once he gets there soon after like my husband is doing now. It's not horriable it's only for 3 months but it's good to get it done and over with just the hours suck my husband is gone from 3am to 7pm 6 days a week.