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Navy For Moms

This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

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.

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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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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FIRST LEAVE...

Christmas time is here... No talk of coming home, A School will be starting soon. As much as the thought of him not being here, and spending a Holiday alone eats at me... that may be best. There will be other Sailors that can't take leave, someone will still be on the base... they will need someone there too. I could take that, my parents 50th Ann is in March... maybe he can take the time then... we'll see.

Our daughter has told us that she will be spending Christmas with her fiance and his family since they were with us in Chicago for PIR over Thanksgiving... that's a fair deal. It will be my first Christmas with no kids, so the motivation to decorate or even put up a tree, just isn't there. The husband doesn't mind... but still, it's Christmas!!

A winter storm is expected to hit the Great Lakes area... oh won't he be thrilled...LOL... he must get that from his father. I love the snow, especially during this season.

RING RING...

"Hey Mama" you guessed it, he is sitting in the airport in Chicago on a Thurs eve, flight cancelled for the next morning, and can't get another one out til Sun... his arrangements to pick him up for my SURPRISE now has changed... can you come get me, then???? YYYEEESSSS Merry Christmas to me!! Three full months since that kid slept on his own couch!! Lol... yep, that's where he stayed. Nothing like seeing him come down the gateway in those Navy Blues... what pride... what joy!! It was a very late night, and I had to work early the next morning. But for the first time in his 19 years, he stayed awake in the vehicle and talked to me the whole ride home... just me and my boy.

It was a great couple of weeks... I had forgotten how much more trash, food and laundry there was... but it was worth it. I stood in that same gateway at the airport, realizing you're either happy or you're sad... but the hall is still the same. Sure hard to let him go back, but he was ready. Enjoyed time with family and friends... but really missed his buddies, and that structured guidance ;) Don't know when I'll see him again... but I know this... it can't some soon enough! Skype will be my new best friend...