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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My husband left on march 2nd and I still haven't heard from him other than his last I got here safe and I love you call. I have a two year old who has days where all she does is ask for her daddy and lately all I do is cry. I just don't get why his division hasn't been able to call. I am trying to be strong but I am hurt, scared, and depressed. I feel so unimportant. I know he's busy and I know that it's hard to write, but I am his wife, why can't I get just a one line note that says babe i love you or i miss you. I'm not asking for a novel or anything huge. Before he left we hadn't spent more than 4 days apart in a row since we'd been married, and it's been three weeks now and I just feel like I'm falling apart. All day at work I'm okay as long as I stay busy, but songs on the radio make me sob. I guess it's a testament to the fact that I love my husband. People all tell me that I"m fine it's only 9 weeks and stuff like that but all of them don't have to listen to their baby beg to go see their daddy or look at his clothes in my closet. Does it get easier? Did he just forget about me? I feel so stupid because I know he loves me but I need more than a belongings box and a form letter. I need him. I know he's safe and I know he's doing what he wants, but in the mean while I feel isolated and dumb because I am barely functioning. Half the time I can't sleep, I don't wanna eat but am trying to be strong for my little girl, but the tears just won't stay in today..

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Comment by BunkerQB on March 21, 2010 at 11:50am
It sound like you have a terrific family. You have a job, he is in the Navy, you have a child together, you two love each other. Life is good. My nieces and nephews all teach their toddlers to use sign language. It's amazing to see these two year old signing that they are hungry. Find out how. Teach her to do that, so she can sign to her daddy "I love you." at PIR. Stay positive. It's OK to cry. I do it all the time.
Comment by msmilegurl4 on March 22, 2010 at 12:42am
Thanks for the encouragement. I know it's survivable but I feel broken.

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