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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Trying to be strong
My daughter left on Tuesday. Today is thursday I'm still waiting to hear from her. Hoping all the horror stories are untrue. Just want her to be strong and make it through boot camp. Man I never knew I would be so kid- sick. :((((
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Comment by VashtiPurple on August 6, 2012 at 9:04pm
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My daughter texted my all when she got to Ohara that she was going to have her last good meal. My daughter is a good kid, tough and strong, even though she is I still worry about her. I think its a mom thing :) I got a letter finally from her last week, rip it open only to find the address and graduation date. No other notes or a quick sentence. I know she is busy and tired, I will get one soon, I hope.
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Comment by FresnoNavyMom (Nuke School) on August 8, 2012 at 10:36am
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Hi CS, We're in our third week of boot camp. What's helped me get through is coming to this site every day for encouragement, writing a letter to my son every day (even when I run out of things to write about!) and planning my trip to go see his PIR. I've found that nobody understands like the moms on this site. I got tired of comments from other people like "Oh, it's just like when my son when off to college". It's nothing like that. I'm glad you found this site. It will help you a lot. Hang in there.
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:) I just reread the date of your posting.. You've probably already made it PIR! Well, hopefully my advice will help other "new" moms.
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That's for sure it is NOT like anything else!! Not college or camp.........it's a whole new world. Just like for me it is a whole new kind of pride, like nothing else I can compare it to!!
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Comment by Christina on September 10, 2012 at 9:03am
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It will be fine,seems like forever. My sailor graduates Sept 14th. I thought the day would never come, but before you know it is here. I wrote to my son everyday day it made me feel much better and I think he enjoyed the letters just write them about everything, just like you were talking to them. Stay connected to this site and join your PIR group that also helped me get thourth the rough days.Best of luck to you and your SR, and remember be NAVY STRONG.
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Comment by Mommabear on September 25, 2012 at 10:29pm
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My daughter is in the Delayed Entry Program, sworn in just last week. She heads for North Chicago in mid-January. I'm grateful we have a few more months together to prepare for this new and exciting challenge. Her great grandfather served in the Navy in World War II and her grandfather was an MP in the Army during the Korean War, so service is in her blood. I am deeply proud of her.
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- Spoke with my son today, he sounds so good and believe it or not he is enjoying himself. I think him being an Eagle Scout helped to prepare him in a lot of ways and me too. I miss him something awful and so does our Bailey. She sleeps on his bed but I think she might have finally stopped looking for him every time a car drives up the street. He has told me letters do mean so much to them. It's hard to see people getting tons of letters all the time and others getting nothing. I do have a question, I know we can only send letters and pictures but is it just standard size envelopes? Why I ask is I was wondering if it was okay to send many Christmas cards in one large manila envelope that he can hand cards out to other sailors that might not get anything? I don't want to get him in any trouble. Advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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