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
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
N4M Merchandise
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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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Insensitive People
Why are there such insensitive people? Yesterday, I ran into a person who I know (not exactly a friend) and I told him about my son joining the Navy. He immediately said you know they are going to send him to Afghanistan and hopefully he won't get shot. I was stunned. Why would this man say this to a Mom? I had no idea how to respond, so I just walked off without a response. I cried all the way home. When I got home, I called my husband. He assured me that I had nothing to worry about. Our son wants to work on submarines. My husband said that it is highly unlikely that you will find a submarine in Afghanistan.
Most of the people I tell about our son joining the Navy say how wonderful that is and how proud I must be. Granted, we all know there is a possibility that something could happened to our children, but we don't think about that. We like to think about the positive. Why would this jerk (I can think of other names I would like to call this man, but being a Christian, I won't ) say something so nasty and mean? Like my Mother used to say, if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all! Couldn't he just of said that is nice and leave it at that?
My poor son, when he got home from work, I sort of "pounced" on him. Oh well, Moms are allowed to do that!
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Comment by BunkerQB on January 3, 2011 at 9:34pm
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@RenoMom, 2boys1girl09, Goatlady & ebigirl,
Let me say "Thank you." in advance and please convey the message to your sons/daughters too. Arm-chair quarterbacks/critics w/o a moment of experience in the military or a moment of sacrifice w their loved ones are all too quick to get in our faces and say something stupid and hurtful. We have become a nation (a society) of apologists and political correctors. For 2011 I am turning back the clock. As J25 said above, "Freedom isn't Free" after all - it has been accomplished on the backs of those of us with sons/daughters out there putting their lives on the line. I am taking a stand.
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Comment by GoatLady (USS Theodore Roosvelt) on January 4, 2011 at 10:02am
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AMEN!!!
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