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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.

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

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**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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Any current USS Enterprise Moms out there

My son is currently assigned to the Enterprise and I am looking to connect with anyone who has someone onboard. He is assigned to the deck department.

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Comment by csolis on September 10, 2012 at 7:38pm: My son is also on the USS Enterprise. He was on the flight deck as a weight board operator but now he is training for port security. Not what he wanted but he said they had to fill a billet and that's where he put him. Anyone else in that situation. Not really understanding the whole billet thing.

Comment by Frankie on September 10, 2012 at 10:47pm: Unfortunately I understand it all to well, when you first go into the Navy if you are not given a school after boot camp then you go through Appreticeship training then you are sent out into the fleet as Undesignated Seaman every base and ship have allotments of so many billets for those undesignated seaman to fill so they can basically put you anywhere they want. I was sent to a overseas duty for my first assignment and assigned to suppy department that is when I was allowed to convert to Airman but I was used all over the Supply Depart....

Comment by Frankie on September 10, 2012 at 10:47pm: Anyone attending the Tiger Cruise???

Comment by csolis on September 10, 2012 at 11:36pm: Thank you for clarifying that for me. My son did go in undesignated even though he was warned not to by a friend. Unfortunately, he just was not sure of what job he wanted yet. The sad thing is he was qualified to go AD and was just getting ready to test for it. Now I don't think he can. He is now in the port security academy, I guess it could be worse. At least he is out of the intense heat on the flight deck. We are counting the days until their return home. So proud that he is apart of a little history on the last deployment of the USS Enterprise. Wish I could go on that Tiger cruise.

Comment by BunkerQB on September 11, 2012 at 12:47pm: List of Navy For Moms groups associated with ships (with clickable links).

http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/groups-listed-by-name-of-us

Just click on this link and click +JOIN.

Kathy, this list along w the list of groups associated with Ratings and PIR dates can be found by going to MAIN tab, look in the middle column for the featured discussions. I am kinda "retired" since my son is out of the Navy - it would be great if you can keep where these list are in mind and pass the info along.

Regards, BQB