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.
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:
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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
Sailorswife2716,
What a treasure you must be for your mother-in-law! My former sailor married a lovely gal and is very happy. I am forever on the lookout for a nice gal for my adventuresome younger son. If you have an unattached younger sister, cousin (preferably a clone of YOU), please hit me up with a friend request. I'd be happy to fund their trip(s) to North Dakota, where he is working. DO NOT laugh. I am serious.
Please stick around. Senior citizens like me are always appreciative of different perspectives. BQB.
Sailorswfie2716, I just peeked at your profile. You are from SoCal. That works since we are in North Cal. :)
Denise: Prayers & Hugs to your family. I don't know the words to say because I have never experienced such a lost I don't even know how you must be feeling. I hope you have a good support network that will help you along this path of grief.
To everyone else... Thank you for the words of support. It has really helped. I have moved to unhappy to this is happening and I am being as supportive as I can. I haven't been on the site much this past weekend because there is so much to do. I am putting a party together for him and just trying to get everything tided up before he leaves. This change in attitude I have all these posts to thank. I have been able to express how I feel and just being able to have an outlet has helped. Thank you to everyone.
Good to hear you are doing better.
If you haven't, you should go thru the following discussion. Join the Depper group (for the month your son is leaving), the Boot Camp Moms group and when you get his form letter, the PIR group associated with his PIR date.
Be sure to watch the videos that will take you from the Processing Days thru PIR. The Survival Guide will have other links important for you to bookmarked, such as the link to the Recruit Training Command. Questions just ask. Take care.
To new moms, many of us who have been here for 4+ years are "retiring"/pulling back or have retired. There are many organizational groups/discussions in placed, so the wheels don't have to be reinvented. I am here mostly to update the discussions I started (such as the Survival Guide, the list of PIR Groups) and administer my local San Fran group. I post when I feel I can contribute. On the finer points of "how to", "what is this or that" and "when & where" I defer to lemonelephant, AntiM and others who has worked tirelessly in getting info to newcomers. Additionally the ladies who run the PIR groups have been invaluable to this site. Furthermore, old-timers like Denise Seabee Mom, judy r, Coach Sheila, Craig, CryptoDad have been stalwarts in keeping this site active (some more visible than others).
NONE are paid administrators/managers. Our contributions are from our hearts and because we care about the sailors. I encourage all newcomers to participate, learn something you can pass along, post a supportive comment here and there and just drop in to let everyone know how your sailor is doing. Pay it forward and keep it going.
With my local group, we get together for meet and greets 3-4 times a year - I now have a group of great friends locally to share sailor news and life-after-the-Navy news.
Warm regards, BQB.
When my daughter stated she was joining the Air Force, I was thrilled. She wound up joining the Navy instead, again...I was thrilled. Her father was a Marine and yes, they are a different breed totally. I raised my 3 kids after we separated, and they were better off for it. I learned that all she wanted was my support. When I didn't give it to her for whatever reason, she got mad. Kids just want to know that we are behind them, no matter what. She LOVED basic training. She wound up getting a hairline fracture in her hip, and because she kept running, it went down into her leg. She didn't tell them until after she passed her last PT. That's how much she loved it. She wanted no excuses to get in the way.
Believe me when I say that kids can definitely turn on you when you least expect it. Her dad was proud she was going in, but didn't keep up contact with her. They now have a strained relationship.
Putting in my 2c after she got in and aboard a ship, about what she planned on doing with her pay, her future, etc could have gone very badly as she needs constant support. But she is a smart one. She bought a car and has been making payments for a year (helped her establish credit). She has 1 credit card and the payments come out of her paycheck, again establishing credit. She was coming up with ridiculous job ideas of things she may want to do when she got out of the Navy, which is coming up soon. We tried to show her how unhappy SHE would be, because she is terribly physical, can leg press over 700 lbs...she would not be happy in some of her fantasy jobs she kept coming up with. The girl needed a job that would capitalize in her physicality. I kept suggesting over and over, either police or fire. She chose fire. I couldn't be more proud. She will get to do a job she already loves since the first day she did it at Great Lakes, and it will live up to her standards. To work hard, and people around you work the same way. Something MANY people in the service definitely DO NO DO.
Yes, you have a right to be unhappy, but I think you are unhappy for the wrong reasons. Your son can go to college when he is in the service. Many of his credits will transfer and he will have lost very little. Be a proud momma, you raised him right.
I ran across some comments that were off topic somewhere on this site that discussed how parents were afraid that those traits they loved best about their child would be lost. I think this is why I am conflicted about my SR's decision to join. I love the him he is now, and I don't want him to lose the gentle warm humorous side of him that I treasure. I fear it may happen, but this is what he chose, and I hope he never loses who he is, but if he does I will love the person he becomes too. He wants this life experience and I am glad he will see more than his home state before he settles into whatever life he chooses for himself.
What I am angry about is that after so many years of "civilization" we still need a military. Why do so many lives have to be put in danger because one country or another wants some extra land, don't like each others religion, or can't accept differences in the way others choose to live their lives? I dislike the military and the need for it at the same time I support the individuals that make up the military. As my protest, I am making a peace symbol out of herbs in my front yard :) Wouldn't a peace time military be nice to have again?
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