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.)
N4M Merchandise
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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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Reading List
A reading list given to me and I thought I would share it with you....This is for military wives, fiancees and girlfriends.... happy reading!
• Married To The Military:A Survival Guide for Military Wives, girlfriends, and Women In Uniform. by Meredith Leyva
• Hope For The Home Front by Marshe’le Carter Waddell (her husband was a Navy Seal)
• Military 101 (Fiction) by Tynisa Gaines
• 365 Deployment Days A Wife’s Survival Story by Sara Dawalt
• Home Fires Burning by Karen Houppert
• That Military House- Move It, Organize It, And Decorate It. by Sandee Payne
• Life After Deployment- Reunion Stories/Advice by Karen M Pavlicin
• Spouses Also Serve by Tiffany A Booker
• Today’s Military Wife-Meeting the Challenges Of Service Life by Lydia Sloan Cline
• The Treasure of Staying Connected for Military Couples by Janel Lange
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Life as a Military Spouse by Lissa McGrath
• Surviving Deployment by Karen M Pavlicin
• The Mocha Manual to Military Life by Kimberly Seals_Allers with Pamela M. McBride
• Separated By Duty, United in Love- A Guide to Long Distance Relationships For Military Couples by Shellie Vandervoerde
• When Johnny/Joanie Comes Marching Home by The Revernd Dr. Lester L. Westling, Jr.(USN)
• Military Spouse’s Complete Guide To Career Success- Finding Meaningful Employment in Today’s Global Workplace by Janet I Farley
• How to Survive A Move edited by Jamie Allen and Kazz Regelman
• Jobs and the MIlitary Spouse- Married, Mobile and Motivated for Employment by Janet I Farley
• A Year of Absence-6 women’s stories of courage, hope and love by Jessica Redmond
• They Also Serve Who Sit and Wait by John Milton
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Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on January 24, 2011 at 3:59pm
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On my shelf I have:
-Navy Spouse's guide -Laura Hall Stavridis
-Help i'm a military spouse How to craft a life for you as you move with the military- Kathie Hightower and Holly Scherer
-Going Over board, the misadventures of a military wife
-Homefront club: the hardheaded woman's guide to raising a military family - Jacey Eckhart
-Service Etiquette 5th edition - Cherlynn Conetsco (I feel this book is especially good for those who will be entertaining for their job or spouse job ect FRG leaders and officer/warrant officer wives )
and two previous mentioned Married to the military and today's military wife
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Comment by just a girl with a broken heart on January 24, 2011 at 4:30pm
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great thanks!
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Comment by BunkerQB on January 24, 2011 at 5:23pm
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Going Over Board is written by Sarah Smiley. I have added these to my master list. Thank Whitney.
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Comment by Kaycha on January 25, 2011 at 12:27am
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:) thank you for sharing this...now i know i have some book shopping to do ~lol~
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