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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!
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.
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."
**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).
**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 isno 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.
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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hey there im so sorry that I just saw your comment.. I mean i'm only 3 months late! haha.. I haven't been on here in a while.. That is awesome.. yea we've been here since september.. but i haven't really met anyone up here yet!
i seen a post that you and the hubby will be stationed in Norfolk.. so will my we :) well technically Little Creek. lol.. when will you be living there?
So since he's division 216 (my guy), I really wanted to know when to buy my ticket for, as in which day to return. I don't know what to do but I know this ticket mustttt be boughttt!! What to do??
Hi Eryn...my name is Theresa. My son Terence is with ship 7 div 214. He is your age...19. I am so hungry for information about our 'boys' that I check this site all the time. I did get a letter today and he sounded really good...very busy but in good spirits. He mentioned they are in Hell Week...that scares me a bit but I know he is strong. Maybe your boyfriend and Terence know each other. Are you heading out to graduation?
I really hope they have!! Have you figured out all of the information for graduation? I've bought the hotel room, but not the flight..I wasn't positive which day to leave and return!
Wednesdays are definitely my new favorite days too. :) And of course I cry my eyes out reading the letters. They are all happy tears, but still tears. I know the anxious part. It kills me sometimes. I knew Brad wanted to join the navy way before we started dating, but he has talked about that since high school (he's now 22) so I never knew if it would really ever happen. He has never been one to jump at opportunity, so when he really did join I panicked. BAD... then the anticipation before he left made me seriously crazy. I would cry at dinner on a daily basis. I would pick fights over every small thing. It was really bad. I thought i was losing him forever you would have thought. Then not hearing from him in three weeks killed me. I again started to go insane. This site kept me sane.
I'm doing actually really good lately. The first two and a half weeks were horrible. I couldn't eat or sleep. All I did was cry. NO LIE. I thought I was going to fail out of one of my classes because I could not make myself go. I just wanted to stay home and be miserable. Once I got that first letter I realized that if Brad knew how I was acting he would have been very upset. I started working more, studying more, and visiting family and friends. I also write all the time. It helps so much. I hope it gets better for you as well. We only have 26 days left. :) I am so excited. I miss my boy a bunch too. but who wouldn't? Hang in there. And Talk to me anytime you need to. I love talking it makes me feel better about this whole situation, because we need people that are going through the same thing.
Hey Eryn, my sons girlfriend is also on here cberens and I know she is trying connect with some of the other recruits girlfriends. I love this site and it has been a huge help. 4 weeks to go!
hey, eryn i like this web site it helps me a little i miss brandon alot, i know u do too. i need u to show me how to add a pic maybe we will hear from brandon soon i cant wait;
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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
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**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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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
Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
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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