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Navy For Moms

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

Events

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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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Graduation Info
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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 BeachBunny on January 20, 2015 at 12:34pm: Some of you are talking about RAP...here's a link:

http://navyformoms.com/forum/topics/rap-duty

I have found that the sailors leaving Pcola after training only about 1/2 get leave after school, as they have to report to base or the ship...

My sailor joined the USN to see the world, the first Christmas he "popped" in to surprise us, the next year spent a couple of days in a foreign port having a blast. We, too, facetimed and talked many times while in port...it was fine, just a "new" holiday routine. next year we are planning on meeting him in a different port, as his little brother will be in BC starting his own Navy journey...I think it's exciting to follow them in the journey.

Comment by Vickie360 on January 20, 2015 at 1:58am: LOL. I was replying to a comment several conversations back... Guess I should read ahead!!!

Comment by Vickie360 on January 20, 2015 at 1:54am: My son chose APact because the job he wanted wasn't available.

Comment by nvduhmom. on January 19, 2015 at 11:58pm: yes. the first year I didn't have either him or his sister (she lives on the east coast too and we are on the west coast). But we face-timed and talked. I just have to remember I had my husband, my mom and my sister. It could be worse. I could be alone. AND my son is doing something that he wants to do. He was fine with it. I sent him a package and the ship had a HUGE spread for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He was VERY happy.

Comment by Momma Mickey on January 19, 2015 at 11:34pm: Was it hard to not have your child home for the holidays?

Comment by nvduhmom. on January 19, 2015 at 11:32pm: not after bootcamp, however after their initial training they can get leave. If they go home and work at a local recruiting center they can use up to 5 days toward their leave. (they don't have to count towards leave). My son chose to go direct to his ship and we did not see him during the holidays. He will get 10 days leave next month before deployment.

Comment by Momma Mickey on January 19, 2015 at 10:54pm: Will she get to come home any after boot camp and training?

Comment by nvduhmom. on January 19, 2015 at 10:49pm: boy, alot has been going on since i was on last...emotional mom. My son has been undesig since July. Graduated bootcamp in Sept. He said he cannot strike for a job until he has been in the Navy for a year. What will happen is after bootcamp, she will go to training, sort of like a school for s-pact. Then be assigned to a duty. All i can suggest is for her to do the best in whatever she is assigned to do. Don't complain and work hard. Hopefully if she has a good CO, it will be noticed. She will then get a good review and when it is time to strike for a job, she will have a better chance of getting it.

Comment by BunkerQB on January 19, 2015 at 10:15pm: I cry buckets every tax season thinking of all the things our government waste our money on. Not the Navy, of course.

Comment by Momma Mickey on January 19, 2015 at 9:53pm: Oh no, I picked emotional mom because I am the most emotional person I know. I cry at everything and anything. I love tax season!!! Lol, I am actually the sanest person I know during tax season.