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

**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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Skooter64's Blog (6)

Charleston Visit July 2014

Hello All,

Just got home from Charleston where I visited my Nuke in A school. We had a great time. Charleston is a smallish city, so getting around was easy, there were Navy people everywhere and military discounts are applied easily. 

For example, our Nuke wore his NSU's to the Yorktown at Patriot's Point, and not only did he get in free, but my daughter and I got in for half price.

My daughter hadn't seen her brother in almost six months, and she noticed right away how…

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Added by Skooter64 on July 14, 2014 at 11:00am — No Comments

Home from PIR

My husband and I just got home from PIR. It went by so fast!

Friday after lunch, we just walked around a mall near the base. Then I found a park with an old fort on Lake Michigan: Fort Sheridan, Moraine, IL.  You can park and walk along the beach. It was quiet, but windy, of course. Then dinner and back to the base.

Today, his flight to A school was later in the evening, so we picked him up at the airport and took him to our hotel for a hot shower and a nap. 

He's very…

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Added by Skooter64 on April 13, 2014 at 12:09am — No Comments

Less than a Week to Go!

PIR in six days! I just can't wait to see my sailor (as he will be).  They are wearing blues, not whites. I like that. There is nothing like a son in a great uniform to make a mama proud.  I'm packing extra tissues. I'm pretty sure I'm going to cry a lot of happy tears.

Added by Skooter64 on April 4, 2014 at 9:28pm — No Comments

Got the letter today!

It was so funny, in a way. I got the box yesterday (a week after he left), and then the letter arrived the next day.  That just goes to show that when they say it varies on how long it takes to receive things, they mean it. I thought we'd get the box in a couple of days, but in the end they arrived within a day of each other.

My son is in ship 09, div 140, so if you have a SR in that group, let me know.  I signed up for my PIR date group, and I made hotels reservations about…

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Added by Skooter64 on February 22, 2014 at 12:00am — No Comments

He left today

My husband and I went to see him swear in. I have rarely felt so moved in my life. I'm proud and sad and everything at once.  We stayed with him at the airport until the last hour and half. He called from O'Hare and now we wait.

This is as hard as I thought it was going to be, but I know it is going to be worth it all.

Added by Skooter64 on February 13, 2014 at 11:42pm — 5 Comments

My Son's BC Date Just Moved Up to February 2014

Okay, I'm excited, but a little nervous.  I was waiting to read all the great information on this site, so now I have to get at it. I have to admit, I'm feeling reluctant to read, because it makes his leaving so real. Here I go.

Added by Skooter64 on January 14, 2014 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

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