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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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Thanks Pat, My husband & I are at Pearl Harbor right now visiting our son for the week. Still trying to adjust to jet lag, from NY. Was up at 4am this morning at the hotel , so wanted to check my e-mails, before they pile up & saw that my other son in Dijoubi, had sent some pix of himself wth other marines from his platoon, so that was a nice surprise. Thanks for that web site, I will definitely check it out.
Hi Pat, I wrote a message on the Mollys Adopt A Sailor discussion page but I don't know if I did it right. I just wanted to let someone know I could do 8 of those little boxes that go into the bigger box. Also I was wondering if there were any others down where I am at the shore area in NJ so I could get together with them and help. Thanks hopefully I will get the hang of this computer stuff soon. lol
My son left last week, and it appears that he will have PIR the week of Thanksgiving, or if they didn't fill a division the week after. I am still waiting (very impatiently) for the letter. This is so much harder than I anticipated. But, if PIR is the week of Thanksgiving, do you have any idea on whether they get more time before they fly to A school?
thanks Pat, I am friends with Whit's mom, so I was keeping up to day, funny, I would get people's comments back to her, but not her original message, maybe it will be better now!
My son just left yesterday for boot camp in NF. I am looking for something to keep me a little more occupied, and this looks like a great place to start. Thanks!
Thanks so much, Pat! I've met you at a meet-n-greet at Olive Garden in Bloomington over a year ago--just in case you can't remember, like me. :D I will offer her the option and see what she wants to do. She's 27, so it's not like she's a little 18-year-old getting around. But she's my baby.
Thank you for the email. Are there any groups in Northern CA (Sacrament area)? Hoping there is a group here that I can join up with or get the info I'll need to start up a group in this area.
HI Pat, thanks for emailing me back. I did find the address (FC2 N. Martin). What form do I need for customs? Then we can fill it out, just want to make sure I get it right. Thx for your help!
Thank you for the welcome! Hopefully I won't have too many questions. Just saw your comment from October (!)...sorry. Yes, my son is going to be a Nuke, if all goes well for him. He leaves for BC May 1st; it's been a long wait. Thankfully, with the Navy for Moms groups I have been "learning" from, I think I am ready. I know he is ready!
At 12:13pm on January 14, 2013, Trevor's mom said…
First Molly's box on it's way to the USS Gonzalez. I've already shipped 3 to my son which he has received one already. I think I'll do one a month just in care of the Molly group.
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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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Thank you, Pat. I had just asked Sheryl for the address. I will wait to see the February list.
Hi Pat, I wrote a message on the Mollys Adopt A Sailor discussion page but I don't know if I did it right. I just wanted to let someone know I could do 8 of those little boxes that go into the bigger box. Also I was wondering if there were any others down where I am at the shore area in NJ so I could get together with them and help. Thanks hopefully I will get the hang of this computer stuff soon. lol
My son left last week, and it appears that he will have PIR the week of Thanksgiving, or if they didn't fill a division the week after. I am still waiting (very impatiently) for the letter. This is so much harder than I anticipated. But, if PIR is the week of Thanksgiving, do you have any idea on whether they get more time before they fly to A school?
thanks Pat, I am friends with Whit's mom, so I was keeping up to day, funny, I would get people's comments back to her, but not her original message, maybe it will be better now!
My son just left yesterday for boot camp in NF. I am looking for something to keep me a little more occupied, and this looks like a great place to start. Thanks!
Thank you Pat, I'm a little nervous but can't wait to get started.
Thanks so much, Pat! I've met you at a meet-n-greet at Olive Garden in Bloomington over a year ago--just in case you can't remember, like me. :D I will offer her the option and see what she wants to do. She's 27, so it's not like she's a little 18-year-old getting around. But she's my baby.
Hi Pat,
Thank you for the email. Are there any groups in Northern CA (Sacrament area)? Hoping there is a group here that I can join up with or get the info I'll need to start up a group in this area.
Sandra
What about the single addresses that are out there? Are they in need of care packages or just cards and letters of encouragement? Kathy
HI Pat, thanks for emailing me back. I did find the address (FC2 N. Martin). What form do I need for customs? Then we can fill it out, just want to make sure I get it right. Thx for your help!
Thank you for the welcome! Hopefully I won't have too many questions. Just saw your comment from October (!)...sorry. Yes, my son is going to be a Nuke, if all goes well for him. He leaves for BC May 1st; it's been a long wait. Thankfully, with the Navy for Moms groups I have been "learning" from, I think I am ready. I know he is ready!
First Molly's box on it's way to the USS Gonzalez. I've already shipped 3 to my son which he has received one already. I think I'll do one a month just in care of the Molly group.