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:
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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Does it ever get better????
We have had our fingers crossed that when she got her orders she would come back to Jacksonville as there were over 30 openings available between Mayport and NAS which are both only 15 minutes away from home. Orders came in and it was Groton Conneticut. My heart dropped to the floor and is still there. She is excited, as her grandfather and uncle had both been stationed there. The realization that she may never come home is hitting me sooooo hard that I really dot know what to do. She truly is my best friend. I don't know how to make the hurt go away.......I miss her terribly. Does it ever get any easier??
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Comment by lemonelephant on October 6, 2012 at 12:11am
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We raise our children to leave us and pursue their own dreams. Skype and facebook will become your friends. Phone calls and time home on leave will be precious. You have placed her in the best hands of all--those of God and the US Navy. Be happy for her and stay busy and get used to this new normal for you. Perhaps there is some travel in your future???
There are a lot of groups for that rating; check out and join HM (Hospital Corpsman) A School in San Antonio and Corpsman Moms and/or Corpsmen Moms and Dads.
(Group names within this comment are clickable links. To join a group, click on the group name and after the group page opens, click on "+ Join..." in the upper right.)
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Comment by Krtkrs on October 7, 2012 at 7:12pm
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I truly thank you all for your support and for sharing your own stories. It very comforting to hear the words come from those who are going through or have been through what I am going through now. I hope to travel to see her as soon as possible! As have many, I just recently became unemployed and having a 5 year old, makes the trip twice as expensive. Not to mention paying off the 3000.00 credit card bill from our Great Lakes trip! Worth every penny though!!!!! I am positive that I will make it happen though!
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I made the trip to my son's PIR and then I wasn't able to make any trips until this year when I went to his "C" School graduation and it has been 4 years this month since he had PIR. Your Sailor will understand if you can't afford trips for visits for a while. Skype and fB are great tools to help keep you connected!
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