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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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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Waiting to leave for Boot Camp
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At 11:59am on August 5, 2014, Anna said…

swalker370,

I see you recently joined the Moms of Daughters 2 group and I want to welcome you!!  We are a close, friendly, supportive group of Moms and look forward to getting to know you and your sailor.  I see you have been a member of N4Ms for awhile and I take it your daughter just got to her first duty station at Norfolk?  My son is stationed there also!!!!  Please feel free to jump in and join our chats.  You can ask any questions you may have, talk freely about your feelings, fears or concerns, or just chat about life.  We are all in different phases of our daughters Naval careers and we are always there for each other!!!  Let us support you when you're missing her, lend an ear when you need to vent, and celebrate with you when you want to brag!!  Again, Welcome Aboard!!!!!

At 9:19am on September 27, 2013, goldwingmom said…

Thank you soooooo much for your support! I was very excited to get your comment. I'm doing okay today and hope I continue to be strong for him. He sat at the hospital last night with one of his best high school friends whose wife was having a baby. He was texting me during labor and delivery, it was sooooo funny! His first experience to be so involved. I'm glad he get to be there. I've very emotional where my 2 children are concerned so when he first told me (last November) I had to go to the dr. to get something to help me stop crying. I got off of it after it kinda soaked in what he was going to do and I had several months left with him anyway, but boy those months went by fast. He joined in December and then qualifity for Nuke school so that pushed his BC date from May to October. I'm thankful for the extra time.Didn't mean to tell you my life story, LOL  Please keep me posted on how your daughter is doing, I hope she had a wonderful experience.  I just read sailormoons comment and now I feel confused and somewhat misled.  I hope we don't have an experience like that, my son has put everything he has into this decision with long term plans to climb the ranks and retire from the military.  Thank you again for your kind words, I'll feel your thoughts and concern on Tuesday.

At 2:42pm on August 23, 2013, goldwingmom said…

hi susan, my name is jane, my son flies out on oct 1, just about the time your baby will be graduating.  i'm thinking of you, because i am having some of the same emotions you are having, i feel like i'll miss soooo much of his life not seeing him everyday.  but hopefully this is just what his destiny holds for him and yours too.  we want them to reach their full potential in life whether we're by thier side or not.  stay strong and i hope we can be friends and support and encourage each other.  God bless you and yours

At 5:34pm on July 15, 2013, swalker370 said…

It's now 22 short days until boot camp and I'm an emotional basket case.  She is my only child - just 18 years old.  I'm going to miss her "growing" into a young woman and all that entails.  I'm heartbroken for me -- excited for her and all she is going to experience and see and do. 

I still feel lost, though.  As I read through the "what to do in the last month before boot camp", I'm overwhelmed by the constant changes taking place and the fact that I have no control over what is happening.  How do I live everyday without seeing her, hugging her, touching her?  How do I live without crying everyday?  Gosh, I will miss her. 

 
 
 

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