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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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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

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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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Graduation Info
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Please God get me out of this dark hole I'm in today....I'm really having a tough day. Help me!

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Comment by firewife5 on July 24, 2011 at 12:35am: I am so sorry for your pain. i really don't know you or your circumstance, but I am sorry. Add to that, i am a terrible typist and I barely know how to work this site, as I am new to it. But something in your post prompted me to comment. I noticed that you asked God to get you out of this dark hole, so I'm gonna assume that you know God. If you would just allow me to pray for you right now..."Dear Heavenly Father, you are our Creator and Sovereign God, you have everything in your control and have allowed all things to come to pass, ..the good and the bad. Lord, I thank you for being so mighty and for being the one true thing in this world, the remedy for everything that ails us. You are the constant, unchanging God who loves us so very much. Father, i don't know what's going on with this mom, but I do know she is desperately seeking you and your word promises us that if we seek you, we will find you. Lord, please I pray that your Holy Spirit comfort her tonight and remind her just how much you love her. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. Hang on Jessesmom. Read Isaiah 43:1-2 & 3a Meditate on that tonight and try to get some rest :)

Comment by proudmama ship10 div267 on July 24, 2011 at 8:20am: Hey Jessesmom,Have in there this is still all new to you,each day does get a little better.Focus on PIR and making your plans for that and how you will be seeing your child again then.And pray it does help.Try and keep busy and keep positive for your childs sake I'm sure they wouldn't want you to feel sooooo sad.Take one day at a time and use this site to talk and express your feelings it WILL help more then you know,we are all here for you! -Ruth

Comment by Boys R Us(ship07/div303) on July 24, 2011 at 11:28am: Thanks girls! And a special thanks to you Firewife! ;) I appreciate that!

Comment by proudmama ship10 div267 on July 24, 2011 at 4:43pm: Hope your feeling better!!! Believe me this will be an emotional roller coaster! Hang in there. -Ruth

Comment by Boys R Us(ship07/div303) on July 24, 2011 at 9:23pm: Today was much better. Thank-you everyone!

Comment by navy25 on July 26, 2011 at 11:55pm: Hang in there Jessesmom little by little things will get better if your child is in bootcamp for Me when I would feel bad I would write my son a letter or 2 or 3 short ones long ones and mail them out and I was always looking around for inspirational quotes to send him to give him Courage and Strength and this helped both of us when he read them it gave him Comfort to know that as he always tells Me Mom you are right here with Me in Spirit.Bootcamp is not just tough for the recruits but for the Families especially MOMS but Remember you have found in all of Us a new bunch of Friends that understand what you are feeling so check in as often as you wish to this site and in other groups like the same PIR Graduation Date Group this site was very helpful to Me during BC and even now my son will soon be going to C School and right now we dont know where to yet and there is still deployment ahead so I know Ill be always needing Navy4Moms.