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!
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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If you check out the photos I put up today, you'll probably notice the young man is not in the Navy, but is in the Army. There are actually a lot of army bases in this area as well as Navy. SPC Evan Bunch is one of our "sons" and plays the drums in the Ft. Lee Army band in Petersburg, VA. Yvonne and I drove up there to support him in his performance during their annual Christmas concert. He was really great! Then he took ous out to dinner afterwards. Yum!
At 11:58pm on November 21, 2008, Sherry James said…
Hi Yvonne & John,
I think it is awesome that you minister to our military children. My daughter is in the Norfolk area as well. Sherry
Yvonne and I met when I was a seaman in the Navy when I was 19 (1970). You do the math. :)
She was a hostess at a Christian servicemen's center in California called the Port O Call. It was there I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior. I was going to Electronics Technician "A" School at Treasure Island, CA.
I spent 10 years enlisted (6 on active duty and then 4 in the reserves). I never got past Third Class - no motivation! I was stationed in Hawaii.
When I got off active duty I went to Bible college and seminary and then got commissioned as a Navy chaplain. I spent 7 years as a chaplain in the reserves and then went back on active duty for three years (Hawaii again!). I was then medically retired in 1990.
We've pastored in various places, including Missouri, Maine and Colorado.
Then we moved to Virginia Beach to minister to the military in 2000. Yvonne and I open our home to young servicemen and women on the weekends doing all kinds of stuff with them. Pictures and stories are on our web site and blog.
By the way, are you related to Richard and Susan Gallagher? We were good friends years ago and have lost contact with them.
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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.)
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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.
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If you check out the photos I put up today, you'll probably notice the young man is not in the Navy, but is in the Army. There are actually a lot of army bases in this area as well as Navy. SPC Evan Bunch is one of our "sons" and plays the drums in the Ft. Lee Army band in Petersburg, VA. Yvonne and I drove up there to support him in his performance during their annual Christmas concert. He was really great! Then he took ous out to dinner afterwards. Yum!
I think it is awesome that you minister to our military children. My daughter is in the Norfolk area as well. Sherry
Yvonne and I met when I was a seaman in the Navy when I was 19 (1970). You do the math. :)
She was a hostess at a Christian servicemen's center in California called the Port O Call. It was there I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior. I was going to Electronics Technician "A" School at Treasure Island, CA.
I spent 10 years enlisted (6 on active duty and then 4 in the reserves). I never got past Third Class - no motivation! I was stationed in Hawaii.
When I got off active duty I went to Bible college and seminary and then got commissioned as a Navy chaplain. I spent 7 years as a chaplain in the reserves and then went back on active duty for three years (Hawaii again!). I was then medically retired in 1990.
We've pastored in various places, including Missouri, Maine and Colorado.
Then we moved to Virginia Beach to minister to the military in 2000. Yvonne and I open our home to young servicemen and women on the weekends doing all kinds of stuff with them. Pictures and stories are on our web site and blog.
By the way, are you related to Richard and Susan Gallagher? We were good friends years ago and have lost contact with them.