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

**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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So my daughter is now only allowed to be called "Future Sailor" by her recruiter as she is an official Depper. She gets to join our local YMCA so that she can do PT and she has to go to DEP meetings twice a month and contact her recruiter every Monday from now on. I think that this stuff will make her time go by faster. We found her a prom dress and the fact that i am working now will maybe not make getting the rest of her senior year stuff taken care of, but I will be able to do more for her biirthday. Husband says that now we are military parents, we definitely have to do 4th of July up big time. I want to make her last semester of high school and her last free summer very memorable. She is not scared of what her future holds, she is excited and she has decided she wants to be career Navy which makes me even happier, she will never have to worry about having a job! My girl makes me so proud and I am beginning to think that her leaving, although it will be emotional for me, is a HUGE step forward for my girl and her independent new life and I can't be sad for that.

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Comment by fayegirrl4* on January 23, 2015 at 5:56pm

Hi! Im an emotional mom too and just wanted to say Congrats to your daughter for making such a HUGE decision to join the Navy. Our son did the same thing and I can honestly say I have never seen him 100% committed to a decision. He just turned 18 but enlisted back in December. He has completed all of his initial MEPS tests, etc., has started his DEP meetings, not quite into the routine of working out...lol. He too will graduate near the end of May but leaves for BC 7/7. So we have Prom( not sure if he'll go) Graduation then a Going away party. WOW. lots to prepare for!  Im still trying to figure out all of the groups and forums on here but so far I am very pleased with all of the information and the instant camardarie. We have military service on both sides of our family so now we can say we are OFFICIALLY a FULL FLEDGED Military family.  Son #2 is considering military service as well but he is just 16. Oh, btw, my name is Christy and I hope to keep in touch with you. Blessings and keep on making those memories with your daughter!

Comment by fayegirrl4* on January 23, 2015 at 5:57pm

please forgive me... Congrats to everyone who has a son, daughter, wife, husband, niece, nephew, that has joined!  What an amazing and courageous decision!

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