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:
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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IMPORTANT: Revised Community Guidelines and Policies!
Message from Rear Admiral Robin Braun
N4M Members,
As I mentioned in my previous message, we have been conducting a very thorough review of the Community Guidelines to ensure we continue to provide our members the most rewarding experience possible while respecting the freedoms our Sailors serve to protect.
As you know, the purpose of NAVYForMoms.com is to bring together Navy parents and the parents of recruiting-age young men and women to discuss the multitude of leadership, training, and career opportunities our Navy offers and the great pride Navy parents have in their children. NAVYForMoms.com exists to allow families an open forum to discuss what life in the Navy is really like.
Today, I am pleased to announce the completion of this review and the adoption of new Community Guidelines for the NAVYForMoms.com website.
The goal of the new Guidelines is to facilitate open discussion without compromising the purpose of the website, namely the exchange of information relating to service in the Navy. As I noted in my previous message, your personal freedoms are extremely important to the Navy and my hope is that these updated Guidelines provide the best possible balance between the defense of those liberties and the integrity of the website.
I encourage everyone to review the revised Community Guidelines and to become familiar with acceptable use on the NAVYForMoms.com website. The new Community Guidelines may be reviewed here.
I would like to draw your attention to the discussion of off-topic posts and the need to keep discourse civil. These rules are intended to ensure that members get the quick and useful answers to their Navy-related questions in the friendly and collegial atmosphere that has come to define NAVYForMoms.com.
Please know that NAVYForMoms members’ suggestions played a critical part in the revision of the Guidelines, and we will continue to rely on your honest feedback as we strive to provide the best possible user experience.
As always, I would like to thank you for your continued support of the Navy family and our men and women who serve our great nation.
Rear Admiral Robin Braun, USN
Commander
Navy Recruiting Command
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Comment by diane {Shawns mom} on June 19, 2009 at 10:53am
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Thank you!
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Comment by Debby on June 19, 2009 at 8:51pm
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ...........Thomas Jefferson
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Comment by TexasDocMom on June 21, 2009 at 7:31pm
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I'm sure the ad company will adjust and perhaps take a small hit in the bottom line, but I doubt seriously if this little money maker will be shut down because they have to follow the rule of law and our Constitution.
Thank you Kathleen, you are a true American patriot, standing up for your beliefs and following through! Very impressive!! I'm proud to be a Navy mom with the likes of someone like you.
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Hello girls...it seems that someone has got Attorneys involved representing the members? or just 1 member of this site and their freedom of speech, am I correct in that???
thank you....
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N4M has proven itself to not be democracy, how would the vote be handled?
I, for one, support Kathleen in her efforts, and will be delighted to share my thoughts with whatever attorney or the ACLU or whoever ends up looking at this. My child serves so our voices can be heard. I won't let him down.
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I dunno,,,,
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There's also been posted an important post about legislation in front of our Congress concerning PTSD and returning vets from the war zones...and few responses or thoughts on it posted, certainly not very many letters or emails being fired off to any congressmen from NavyForMom participants if you go by the number of responses to it on Daily Briefs.
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Irony..is. A website dedicated to the military.. which I might add has fought for our freedoms for a couple hundred years. .is now trying to stifle such freedoms... I have no doubt our founding fathers are rolling in the graves... Kathleen Northern I applaud you.. without the strenghths of our convictions.. the resolution to fight for those convictions.. we are nothing!!! Men died so we may speak.. keeping ones head buried in the sand.. never accomplished anything.. and I am with TexasDocMom.. I will not let either of my sons who have served this country proudly and have made many trips to the sandbox down by allowing this injustice to pass silently in the night....
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Oh I also find it ironic that those who don't want you speaking for them are trying to hinder your constitutional right.. weeee isnt this fun!!!
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WOW ... I gotta tell you.. I dont consider myself anyones "follower" I"m not a sheeple either.. I am a well educated free thinking person who belives in the principles that our country is founded upon..and whether I agree with what is being said here or not I will defend to my dying breath the ladies (all of them!) right to speak their opinions and support their right to fight what they see being an unjust policy..and for those who do not believe in this fight... and by the way my son is not at sea.. my son IS IN A FREAKING WARZONE!! BEING SHOT AT.. WORRYING ABOUT CAR BOMBS BLOWING HIM AND HIS UNIT TO PIECES!!!! AND FOR WHAT.. SO SOMEONE CAN TELL HIS MOTHER SHE CAN'T SPEAK HER OPINION!!???????? SHE CAN'T EXERCISE HER CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT??????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? YOU OBVIOUSLY DO NOT GET IT!!! AND YES THE CAPS ARE ON PURPOSE!!! So I beg you to realize that there is a bigger picture here and no one is trying to destroy this site... they are trying to fight a founding principle of our consitution on a site dedicated to those who DIED FOR THIS RIGHT!
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