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

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:

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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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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Just Back from PIR

Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:43pm 9 Comments



For all you moms waiting for PIR, let me tell you it is absolutely the best day of your lives and worth every anxious second you have spent worrying if your son or daughter would get to that day. It is a wonderful, moving ceremony especially when the divisions come in. And the performing units are fantastic. Just a few helpful hints for those getting ready to make plans. We stayed in Gurnee which is just two exits off 94 from the base. It has a mall, movie theatre, plenty of hotels and… Continue

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At 1:16pm on February 22, 2011, SubWife2010 said…
Hey are you going to be coming to Graduation friday ? I dk if you saw my post but to help with frustration of getting on base they said they might be having parents and fam park at the museum next to gate 1 and then they will have a bus going back and forth to grad. I will know more details later today just wanted to let you know because your son is grad on the same day as my hub!
At 9:15pm on December 29, 2010, Proud Mom said…

Hi Beverly,

  It has been a while since I have heard from you. How is your son doing? I think he will be graduating soon. Have the letters started to sound any better?

At 11:28pm on December 6, 2010, Pat L. in IL said…
Barbara, So glad to read on your blog that you had a great time at PIR! Hope you gave your sailor a big hug from his Thanksgiving mom!! haha
At 4:03pm on November 18, 2010, TMH (Ship 9 Div.14) said…
That is what my daughter was saying. I guess that is the hardest part coming together as a team. I guess that is always an issue at working learning how to become a team...

So we finally booked our flights yesterday!!! I am so excited. We are landing at O'Hare at 6:45 pm on Dec 2nd and staying at the Navy Lodge Thursday and Friday. Sat we are going to stay in downtown Chicago and go site see. What are your plans? Are you planning on going to the mixer at the Ramada? I think we are for a while anyway.

Ashley is going to be an MA and they leave at 2am Saturday morning. We only get Friday with her, but it is awesome that we get any time with her. Have you received any letters lately. I got one from Nov 14th saying Hell Week is over and the Chief likes them again. I felt so bad she set me an letter the other day saying she was sorry, would be a good girl (which she was anyway) and would get a full time job and go to school... I wanted to jump in my car and go and
grab her.

Hope all is well,

Tracy
At 9:10pm on November 16, 2010, TMH (Ship 9 Div.14) said…
HI, I am excited to meet you! It is nice to have others that understand this transition :-) We are going to make our arrangements tomorrow. I think we are going to stay at the hotel on base. My boyfriend is Navy Chief Retired after 23 years. What is your recruts name? How is he doing? I was in WA DC last spring with my son, it was so awesome.
Thanks for saying HI.
At 2:31pm on October 14, 2010, Navy for Moms Admin said…
Welcome to Navy For Moms!

You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions. Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!

If you haven’t already, please make sure that you review our Community Guidelines to learn the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the community.
Also, check out this OPSEC Internet Safety Video

Enjoy your time here and we look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :)
-Colleen
 
 
 

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