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
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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New navy mom son ships out 8/16/14. How will all this work?
My son leaves in August and I'm so unsure of all these steps!!! Where should I go for the best info
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Comment by HuffyMom23 on May 5, 2014 at 1:26pm
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Once your son leaves for the Great Lakes, you can join the bootcamp group. Once he gets up there at some point you will receive his box with his belongings he is sending home. After that you will get a form letter that will tell you his PIR date, which is when he graduates from bootcamp. There will be a group you can join for that too once someone starts it. These groups will be your support for sure. There will also be a group for the job he is going into.
The first 3 weeks are very hard on the recruits and the parents. ha They will be thrown into a world they are not used to. You will most likely feel bad worrying if your son is okay, if he is eating alright, getting enough sleep, and all those things. We all do that. But they are very well taken care of, and everything they are doing for our recruits is only making them better people for the military. After bootcamp and your son has graduated, he will most likely have many stories to tell you and will realize that it wasn't really as bad as it seemed in the beginning. :) The phone calls you get from him during bootcamp when they are allowed to call home start out emotional, and then continue to get better. Some kids have no problem with it especially if they have been out on their own for awhile. My son was fresh out of high school and had never spent that much time away from home. YOU WILL BE SO PROUD OF YOUR SON AFTER HE GRADUATES! There is definitely a change in them and it makes you get so emotional to realize you have a sailor in the United States Navy! Best of luck with everything and enjoy your time with him before he leaves!
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Comment by Dink(Vinson) on May 7, 2014 at 4:53pm
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If you know what his rating will be join that group or groups, you'll learn a lot there. My son said the way to get through bootcamp is just do as you're told and know when to keep your mouth shut!
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