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:

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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Since the day she left

Since the day my baby girl left for GL my life has been changing in so many ways.

On December 11th our son called us and said "the baby is on the way, meet us at the hospital"  So up all night waiting on our first grandson to arrive and hoping he would make his appearance so he could meet his Auntie.  He did!  She got to meet him before she had to be at the recruiting center.

Then we dropped her off and waited for that call the next night to say I'm here! 

I got the call and then the waiting begun, Waiting... Kid in the Box came much sooner than I thought it would! Then more waiting, and waiting... Writing and writing, I wrote and waited... Finally the PIR letter comes!!!! I have an end date and an address to send all those letters to.

And guess what I waited some more... LOL  Finally I get my first letter and it is wonderful, she is in good spirits and sounds positive, more worried about how I am doing lol  Yes she is meeting friends and is oddly having a good time.  More letters and more waiting and more waiting... Worrying and waiting... No News is Good News.

And while doing all this waiting I am working weird hours and finding it hard to do much more that work, worry, wait, see the grandbaby a bit,  Meanwhile her brother isn't working not because he won't but our economy is tanking and with the new baby it is stressful.  

 

Careful with those off handed remarks.... 12 year wrestler son decides he is getting married and joining the Navy also!  WHAT?!?!  I am just finishing this waiting thing up!!!  There are no jobs out here and his Dad built his career from what the Navy taught him.  But Ut oh the girlfriend isn't so sure, Oh she is sure about the marriage part! LOL just not the Navy part. New baby + New Mom and Daddy gone.... Very stressful situation.  

Hey but I have Navy 4  Mom's and so will she!!!  This site has been so helpful keeping me sane and truly that is an amazing feat considering how crazy I am already lol 

They spoke to the recruiter and were quite trilled with the opportunities that they will have. 

So the Wedding is February 16th right after we get back from PIR  Ha they tried to have it during PIR WEEKEND!  LOL No way! waited to long for both of these events and I am going to be at both! 

This time around I won't be the contact person..... That is really going to drive me nuts, But I will love it!  And the darling new daughter in law will be more informed than I was.

 

Thanks Navy 4 Mom's for just being there... even for us lurkers ;)

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Comment by AJVNavyMom on February 1, 2011 at 9:38pm
Congratulations...on everything!
Comment by O_Mom on February 2, 2011 at 12:15am

Thanks and I am looking forward to seeing her!!! Hope the weather breaks, I am under a thick sheet of ice tonight

 

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