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

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:

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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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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I met my boyfriend in the first grade when we were wee little kids. We were the best of friends always side by side no matter what and had each other's back. He pushed me on the swings and we played on the see saw together, ate lunch together. I must admit he was my first crush ever. I remember playing hopscotch with him during recess and asked him to be my best friend forever and without a thought he immediately said yes! As years went by, we grew up went to school together got seperated for a few years and met up in middle school, reunited! It felt as if we were never away from each other in which I felt so happy about because he was the one I was most comfortable with. Being that in junior high kids date without even realizing what a real couple is and just thought of it as a label. We went out for a few weeks and eventually ended it and still kept our friendship strong amazingly. We graduated and moved onto high school, even though we both changed and had a different sense of style and hung out with different people. He was a skater boy, I was a basketball player (not saying I was a full on jock haha) but point is we went our seperate ways and still said hi to each other as if we never parted; however, during our Sophomore year we were slowly getting closer and talking more because we always sat next to each other in class and as Junior year came around I needed him more than ever and everyday we spoke to each other all day. Finally come Senior year we were close as ever, we were inseperable. Anywhere he was I was and vice versa. For a while he stopped talking to me when I decided to move to San Diego to go to college because he thought I'd replace him and have a better life without him around. Nothng felt right, I felt so incomplete, so lost without him by my side or talking to me. Without him I honestly am not myself, I just feel like I'm in a different world as if I'm foreign in my own place. When senior project time came around I know he would need my help because who would know him better other than me? He finally asked for my help and I wondered if I was getting him back or he just  needed my help I had no choice, but to do what I can to get him back, I needed him. I started to show my affection and then I realized he was doing the same thing. Everyday he let his heart do the talking and the action and with just one look and one kiss I knew I knew this was the real deal. I knew he was mine and I was his, it was sealed to perfection. I fell in love with my best friend as so did he. From that day on all he did was show me how much he loved me and I did the same. I moved to San Diego while he went to Bakersfield 4 hours away wasn't so bad... until my first day in San Diego I missed him so damn much he came to visit for a week and when he left my heart was crushed seeing him walk to his train tore me in pieces and I just sat in my car and tried to recollect myself before I went back home. He called me and texted me which was what helped me get through my days. Everytime he came to visit was amazing, but when he left hurt the most. When he started flying back home it hurt even more because I would have to wait two hours for a phone call. Eventually I moved back home just like he did and we went to college together for a semester while he didn't continue because he considered joining the Navy. My heart broke a little thinking about everything we both are about to go through the long days alone the days without phone calls or any communication but it's for the betterment of both of us. I was there the day he went into the recruiters office and the days he needed to study for his ASVAB, the day he left for MEPs and the day he got his ship date. From there I counted down the days and made everyday count I just wish I could go back in time and fix the moments that weren't so happy. Everyday a memory was made and I'm grateful t hat I can still have him for 6 more days. The days are going by fast, but what can do but be happy for the both of us? I love this guy so much and i will be praying every day for my love.

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