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:
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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met a navy seal mom today
Well today I was feeling a little low about my son even though he is still home I can't keep my mind from wondering then steps up a lady to my work window wearing a Navy sweat shirt wow can we say a sign telling me everything will be ok. I introduced myself and she has a son in California and is a Navy Seal. It was pretty great wish I would have gotten her name maybe next time until then I will stick with guardian angel :) lol
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Comment by Becky on January 19, 2012 at 1:07pm
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My son leaves for GL Tuesday after checking into the hotel Monday. We've been running around Houston hitting all our favorite spots (I've gained weight :) hitting all our favorite restaurants. We were at the Spaghetti Restaurant downtown and were just chilling out enjoying a great meal when I heard the lady at the table behind us say Great Lakes and boot camp. I turned around and apologized for interrupting and told her my son was heading up to GL on Tuesday. It turns out that she and her husband (who was having lunch with her) were both Navy retired. They visited with us a while and had my son laughing. We keep bumping into people everywhere we go who have served in the Navy. I keep joking with my son "it's a sign" but the reality of it is, is that these people we meet are so wonderful, so supportive and encouraging to him that it's helping a lot (both he and I). My other son comes in from college tomorrow (he lives several hours away) and will be spending some time with his brother before he leaves. My entire family (there are a LOT) have spent some really good fun time with him in the last month so he is taking a lot of love and good memories with him. I am trying not to hog his time and let him go hang out with everyone, but I have dibs on the last two days he is here. Gotta go make another batch of his favorite cookies. I've seriously gotta work out after he leaves. I've gained some serious weight which I know is just stress. Cry, eat a cookie, cry, eat a cookie. Hey, it's a strategy. I just found out from his recruiter that we can go Tuesday morning and watch his swearing in at MEPS but I saw on another post that a family went to the airport to see them off. Can we do that? Do I ask the recruiter?
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Comment by Navy mom x2 on January 19, 2012 at 8:18pm
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that is some amazing advice my sons favorite place to eat is golden carroll taking him for his 18th birthday next month. I plan on being there for his swear in I am hoping I can see him off at the airport it will be hard but i have to see this through Im starting to collect greeting cards and stamps for when hes away. Everyone at my job will be signing cards as well he is loved by many. We are combining his graduation celebration with a Navy celebration lol it will be lots of fun but very sad stocking up on tissues
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I've been watching the weather at the GL. Good grief! 7 degrees! It's in the 70's in the Houston area. We ate outside on the balcony of a restaurant in downtown Houston today. My son has no clue how cold that is. He doesn't even own a winter coat, he just owns jackets. Does anyone know if they are outside the airport a lot waiting for the bus to GL? Do I need to get him a coat for the trip?
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everything ive seen they wait in the airport but not really sure. i would think i thick hoodie might be ok my son is so hot nature he wears shorts in the winter.
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im a very good actress i guess you can say plus it helped being from a military family my dad was in the army eversense i was 2yr so i grew up knowing what to expect my dad was gone for years and months at a time, but it is different when it is your child. I put on a brave face and smile and i tell him every chance i get that i love him. Michael graduates in May then he leaves by the end of summer. If there is anything you need i am here i will cry with you because i find myself doing that quiet often. have a good day. I also have noticed day and easier than the nights.
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Hi I am super new here.. My son is in DEP with a SEAL contract so I guess that means after Great Lakes he will start BUDS. I'm not sure if I even have all the acronyms right... But he doesn't even leave until Oct 1,2014 and I am terrified and find I have to just pretend that I support this decision when really I have prayed and prayed he would decide on something else. He was at the Naval Academy for about 8 weeks last summer and decided he just didn't want to wait that long to be a SEAL, so came home and enlisted!!! I am hoping to find support here and know I will really need it as I feel like I'm just plain gonna lose my son- hardly ever see him- or worse lose him forever! ;-(
So I'll keep checking back for advice on how to cope and how to be the supportive mom he needs me to be!! Thank you!
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Comment by Navy Mom (J) on June 19, 2014 at 2:22am
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Dear Jessie, Welcome! Somehow your blog post came through to my email. Not sure how. But first let me give you some friendly veteran mom advice. We are all new on here at some point so my intent is to help you the way a Veteran mom helped me back then.
It is best to post on a group site. As you can see many of these blogs are very dated. But from what you said you would post your questions on the PRE-BUD/S site. Many of those moms have sons waiting to start or in boot camp or pre-bud/s. They will have many of the same questions and emotions you have. It is VERY IMPORTANT for the safety of your son and you that you do not post any dates, class numbers,names or pictures etc. This site, although closed we know that nothing in today's world is completely safe on line. But if you have questions that would need to speak of specifics then hang around the group a litlte while, go back and read old posts and get a sense of who you think you can trust. Then send them a friend request with a message. Most probably they will answer you. At first they also will be cautious about sharing too many personal things until they realize you really are a mom of a sailor here.
I would suggest that you delete the blog above since you have a specific date in it and information about your son that a BUD/S instructor could read and figure out who he is and that is not good for the guys.
Good luck and hope to see you on the Pre-BUD/S group.
Read the OP-SEC rules and any regulations you find on this site. They are there for all of our sons safety and ours as well.
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