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

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.)

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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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Working a double shift today and I have my break in the middle, I checked my mail when I got home and THERE IT WAS!!!  Letter #2!

 

Who ever I got the questionnaires from THANK YOU!   She used one this time... She is impressed with the Navy lingo I have learned,  says she doesn't even know what I am talking about. And I have the wonderful pleasure of still teaching her things... HA! Mom's rule ;)  There were terms I have used that she doesn't know about, and I got them all here!

 

She is making friends, she says there are a set of twins who ended up in their division. She hates being IT'ed says girls can't be quiet and pick up after themselves, she says she took the baseline PFA, passed the run( Whew! was worried about that one... she NEVER ran to get ready ok a few times lol and when we timed it she came in way over the time), passed the push-up failed the situps???? Geez lol Not worried about those. 

 

8-D I am giving her information that is helping and she thinks I am weird... LOL

One of her RDC's was/is an AO and said he is holding her to a higher standard.  No pressure there right

 

OK some one explain CONUS and OCONUS  Neither one of us have any idea what those mean can't get that from Navyspeak.

 

I sent my stack of letters right after I received her PIR letter and I am sure she has received them because I sent labels and she used them on my letter!  LOL that was the letter that had the wide tooth comb must not have caused her problems she didn't say.

 

Feeling better and better now that the mail is catching up!

 

 

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Comment by O_Mom on January 6, 2011 at 9:13am

Thank you for clearing up Conus and Oconus.  The answers were too funny! But I know that she is still in there and that she is going to make it.  She didn't say how close she was to passing the situp... But one of the questions asked if she thought she would pass  this, that, and the other she answered as long as they tell me what I need to know I'll pass it YAY!!!! she is fine and the little peeks I saw of her in the letter made me feel so much better.

I am glad she is making friends and my husband was telling me he only ran into one guy from basic while he was in. 

 

Off to Work you ladies take care!

 

Suzie

 

 

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