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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

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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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Chriscwick's Blog (8)

Day 2 Chris K9 Handler Training graduation week

Evening.



Day 2 with Chris. Got to spend only a couple hours with him. Disappointed, but understand. He's up at 04:00, full day, Cross Fit & then we want a piece of him. We did experience a baseline Cross Fit while he did his, full on, thing. I was happy we lived through it & surprised Al & I did as well as we did! 



After exploring a gun shop, we had wonderful Mexican at Los Barrios, YUM - YUM! Owner/chef has won a couple throw downs with Bobby Flay. We concur… Continue

Added by chriscwick on May 15, 2012 at 10:35am — No Comments

For my N4M friends

TO THE GIRLS



What's so poignant about this picture?

Well, it shows a line of little girls holding hands facing the

immensity of ocean waves.

Alone they might be washed away, but together they stand strong.

Thank you each for holding my hand somewhere along the way when I was

facing a wave of my own.

I hope you will reach for my hand when your own wave threatens.





All of us girls..

Old and  young...

Near and far...

Hold… Continue

Added by chriscwick on March 30, 2012 at 4:59pm — No Comments

For my son's 21st birthday

I started connecting songs with people and happenings years ago. These are a few I've associated with my "sand sailor" since we first learned of his impending arrival 21 years ago tomorrow. (side note; I've never attached a file, sure hope this works!!!) lol

Songs.docx

Happy Birthday to the center of my universe, my…

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Added by chriscwick on November 15, 2010 at 9:47pm — No Comments

Much better today, thanks for the hugs!

Much better today, thanks for the hugs!

Added by chriscwick on September 16, 2010 at 5:19pm — No Comments

Got it bad tonight.

Up early (yuck), subbing in a (nice) 4th grade classroom. One of 17 subs in the building, what a day. Home, dog out, dog fed (happy dog), no mail from "his lordship", but hope springs eternal. Al home, then off to the Y for racquetball, I'm doing dinner, feeling a little off, no big deal. Dining, not a bad din-din. Dishes. Nothing new. Finally, sat on the couch, PBS (begging), James Taylor & Carol King singing songs I sang along with in the 70's. Up…

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Added by chriscwick on September 15, 2010 at 9:38pm — No Comments

Maybe I'm just naive, but it still warms my heart & humbles me at the generousity of strangers. I'm speaking of inside the "Navy For Moms" community and out "in the world". We've been shown, for some…

Maybe I'm just naive, but it still warms my heart & humbles me at the generousity of strangers. I'm speaking of inside the "Navy For Moms" community and out "in the world". We've been shown, for some, would be small generosities & courtesies, but for us, they seem huge and appreciated. Thank you "JessicaBnavymom" for the links related to Bahrain & MAA's. It was sweet of you to take time to repond to my meanderings! Take care all. ccw Continue

Added by chriscwick on August 24, 2010 at 7:08pm — 1 Comment

The Adventure Continues!

Am still getting used to no size 12 "chucks" rocketing upstairs. Chris's Dad & I are missing him horribly. We've spoken several times which makes life warm & bright! He's not much for writing, which I understand isn't out of the ordinary. Mail drive us crazy since it's almost 5 to 6 weeks to get things from and to him.

He likes the people he works with and for. He knows they have "each other's backs". I love the phrase "one is none,…

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Added by chriscwick on August 23, 2010 at 9:31pm — No Comments

Never thought I'd Blog!

Never thought I'd be a blogger. Christopher got into the Navy as a DEP and departed for bootcamp (Ship 03, Div 145) February 9, 2010. He graduated in April and went on to "A" School in TX to become an MAA. He's now graduated "A" School and was volun-told to go to Bahrain some of his classmates. He was supposed to have his first pick of postings, but that volun-told thing popped up. I'm hoping it means he did very…

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Added by chriscwick on June 21, 2010 at 11:41pm — 2 Comments

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