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Navy For Moms

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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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

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

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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Graduation Info
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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Praise God from Whom all blessings flow...

Praise Him all creatures here below.

Praise Him above, ye heavenly hosts.

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

The words of that song echo through my mind today. I don't understand why it has taken so long to take up residence in the fore-front of my brain. It was a song we sang every Sunday at the church we attended in Kansas until I was eight. (We moved to Texas, making church attendance in Kansas a little tricky.)

Saturday: We received a letter from our son. What a relief!!! Here is part of what he said:

"The x-ray on Tuesday showed that my bones have healed. Now I'm just waiting for medical to clear me for FFD. It might be a couple weeks. No pain for about a week now."

First thought (oh, I frustrate myself!): It must not have been as bad as they thought.

That thought was completely obliterated by the understanding that TONS of people have been praying for his healing every day (some more than once or twice a day) for two weeks.

Sunday: We got a call...a call so long we almost ran out of things to talk about. It was amazing to hear the sound of his voice, to hear from his tone that he truly is okay. If he can join a division and finish, he may (MAY) graduate in just a few weeks. He is so ready to start A School. I am so ready to be able to communicate with him every time I have the desire. Understand, of course, that I won't call/text him every time I have the desire, but it will be a relief to know that if I want to, I can. :)

I have read through so many people's posts...posts of happiness, posts of disappointment, posts of disheartenment, posts of excitement, posts of heartache. WOW...we share a lot of emotion here...emotion that quite honestly not even my closest friends have been seen. (Okay, that's a little bit of a lie. One of my friends did see me right after the worst panic attack I have ever had in my life...she prayed with me...and reminded me of God's plan -- you know, that plan we trust but cannot always understand.)

So, after canceling airline tickets, I am looking at them again...this time with no specific date, because we do not know if he has joined a division this week or not.

Oh goodness...life is fun!!!

Here is what I will do: encourage others when I can, pray for my children (and yours), and TRY SO HARD to remember that God really does have everything in control...even though the Navy controls a lot. :)