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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.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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Suzi-OH's Blog (9)

Tinker AFB - Oklahoma - Any Aircrew or other loved ones there?

With 30,000 people at Tinker AFB, I know there has to be a few hundred, if not thousand Navy personnel at Tinker.

The Mother s of Sailors at Tinker AFB is not a very active group.....just a few of us posting. We joined the Oklahoma Moms group and they are active...even meet.

 

Sooooo.....anyone else with a loved one at Tinker AFB? Or has anyone else ever had someone at Tinker?

 

It seems so far away to me living in Solon, OH. Sure, we hear things from our…

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Added by Suzi-OH on July 30, 2011 at 4:29pm — No Comments

SERE

Anyone else have someone leaving soon for SERE?

I'm nervous even though our son is excited about going.

I suppose I'll be burning my blue candle again and saying some extra prayers....

Blessings to all in the same boat......Suzi

Added by Suzi-OH on April 4, 2011 at 2:07pm — 3 Comments

Lifetime series - Tissue Alert!!!!

Click on the link below to watch this sure to bring tears reality show. I'm glad they have made a show like this. I have to agree with Marine Lt. General Kelly that........

"The American public is largely unaware of the price its military pays to fight the United States' distant conflicts. Less than 1 percent of the population serves in uniform at a time when the country is engaged in one of the longest periods of sustained combat in…

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Added by Suzi-OH on March 6, 2011 at 7:35pm — No Comments

Military Mom Pays High Price For Speaking With Marine son calling from Afghanistan

Sharing with permission from NewsChannel5.com…


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Added by Suzi-OH on February 18, 2011 at 1:30pm — 6 Comments

A school graduation?? To go or not to go??

OK, now I don't know what to do.

For a while I was sure I'd go to my son's A school graduation.

Then, it started to seem like it was not a very big event and I wondered how son would feel about me coming.

Now, talking to hubby, he says to go if I want....I can use points for the flight and hotel. We're really being financially careful now since he started his business back up, so I do not want to be frivolous.

I wonder how many parents go to A school…

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Added by Suzi-OH on January 24, 2011 at 5:13pm — 6 Comments

Panel calls for 3-year freeze on military pay

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/11/military-debt-commission-recommendations-111010w/


Hello!!! Did anyone mention to this panel that my son is a new sailor???


I should probably avoid politics cuz I know what a hot button it can be,,,,,but....grrrrr..


Well, it's not a done deal and there are so many other…
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Added by Suzi-OH on November 10, 2010 at 5:47pm — 2 Comments

Tears....

.....just as my 8 year old was getting ready to walk out our door to Trick or Treat I read a post on the Pensacola Group about the most recent Air Crew suicide. I did not know the young man or his family and yet I could feel the sadness growing inside me. I read how he seemed like a happy guy, doing well in his training. He had just gotten an "A" on a test two days earlier and had also been out with friends the night before. Nobody knew that anything was wrong and we still have not heard what… Continue

Added by Suzi-OH on November 1, 2010 at 11:33pm — 9 Comments

Mom NEEDS pictures!!! <<>>

It's hard for many of us moms to deal with our sons and daughters flying away from the nest even when we know it is for their careers and their happiness. We cry, we ponder.....we pour over baby albums,lol.


One word of advice to sailors, recruits, etc.....be kind to your family and send us photos....we live for little glimpses into your new lives......I love seeing photos of sailors and their friends....maybe goofing off at the beach, bonding in the barracks, doing the…
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Added by Suzi-OH on October 2, 2010 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments

Handle With Care

Hello All,


I'm still a little green as a new Navy Mom.
My son Lynch's PIR was 8/13/2010. He is now in Pensacola for Air Crew - NACCS is currently occupying his time. I was so excited to hear that he passed his final swim test thus far...the swim in his flight suit. I still can't wrap my head around all he has to do for his chosen career path in the US Navy. Part of me in in awe of him and so proud that he didn't take an easy way. The other half of me is worried…
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Added by Suzi-OH on September 20, 2010 at 9:29pm — 3 Comments

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