This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

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

**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.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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AZKmom's Blog (4)

Form letter!!!!

I was in Chicago all day today at the health expo for the Chicago Marathon.  Didn't cry when we drove past the exit for GL, but I did tear up and get that lump in the throat.  (What is that lump in the throat anyway?)

 

As SOON as we got home, I went to the mailbox.  There was an envelope with HIS handwriting!  I held it to my heart for a little bit before actually opening it.  My son held this envelope in his hands yesterday and I felt him as I held that envelope.  First thing…

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Added by AZKmom on October 7, 2011 at 6:50pm — 6 Comments

First letter ready to go...

I wrote throughout the day yesterday and have letter  number 1 ready to go.  Today my husband and I will head to Chicago for packet pickup for the Chicago marathon on Sunday.  My husband runs marathons. We will drive by the general area of Great Lakes.  I think I'm prepared mentally to do that....we'll see.  

 

Random things....I took my son off our auto insurance and canceled his December dentist appointment.  Simple administrative things....right?.....both made me cry.…

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Added by AZKmom on October 7, 2011 at 8:00am — 3 Comments

Sooner than I expected....The Box

As I was driving down my street, I saw the Fed Ex truck parked in front of my house.....hmmmmm what did my husband order?  Did I forget that I had ordered something (fuzzy brain still, so possible)?  It was The Box.  Today is Thursday, he shipped on Tuesday.  I wasn't expecting it so soon.

 

Oddly, it comforted me.  I've read of others who cried when theirs arrived.  It was nice to see his handwriting on the outside of the box.  And it made me chuckle to see there were no shoes…

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Added by AZKmom on October 6, 2011 at 12:26pm — 2 Comments

It Has Begun....

These past few days have been a blur.  They all went much too fast and contained so much emotion, I am exhausted. 

 

Saturday began with my son's girlfriend arriving from college as a surprise.  He thought he had said his final goodbye to her a week earlier.  But we had her get here for his going away party.  I was so touched by how many people stopped by to wish him well and by the overwhelmingly kind words to my son and about my son from friends, church family, former…

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Added by AZKmom on October 5, 2011 at 4:29pm — 5 Comments

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