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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...how have you been? We are leaving tomorrow night for PIR. Cannot believe the time has come! You guys are right behind us. Sure does seem like a lifetime ago!
Just wanted to say Hi...and see how you are doing? i sent you a message the other day, did you happen to get it? after i sent it, i didn't see it anywhere...hoping it went through. Talk to you soon :)
He said he was doing well ~ has good days and then some "not so good days" as he put it. I hope you've gotten a letter by now :) It will help for sure! I miss him terribly too! I've never gone more than a day without talking to him...this is so hard. We haven't booked our hotel yet, going to do that this week.
Hello There ~ Yes we are going for sure...are you? We finally got a letter on Saturday..and hoping our letters made it too! are you going? Did you get a letter yet? I would really like to meet some parents...and share our stories. It's so wierd without him around! The letter helped...but a phone call would be great!
This animalcookie I got the response you sent about our first born leaving. And I want to say THANK YOU. I know exactly how you feel when our sons do come back I've been told they will be men. When they do come back I know our hearts will once again be filled with happiness hang in there the days are getting easier.
Hi! I know just how you feel...our son was a DEPer since last year, and it seems like a lifetime ago! I wandered around our home, sat in his room and cried. It was hard...it's still hard, but pride fills my heart. I know that the Navy makes him happy, and serving others. So, let the countdown continue! 37 days til PIR. Look up Navy College, if you haven't already...the Sailors are earning college credit, even in boot camp. Mine is going to corpsman school and wants to eventually be a RN...and will be earning credits towards that as well.
hi!! Yes, we are very in love and its harder and harder everyday not being able to see him! Where is your son based at? Has he done a deployment yet? Btw i LOVE your picture of you and your son very very cute!!
Monica, Wish I could tell you it gets easier. We had Joe home for 6 months. I think I asked him weekly if he was sure he wanted to go :) The worst part about bootcamp is not being able to talk to him whenever I want. I cry less, but still cry :( Miss my kid a lot! Worry he might get hurt and not be able to finish BC, which would disappoint him terribly. Will be so proud when he does it though. So yes, my emotions are all over the board. Karen
Hi Jessesmom (Monica). We live in Oregon. Actually lived in Tucson for a year in 1998. So Jesse hasn't left yet? When is his ship out date? We had 6 months with Joe before he left. I hope Jesse goes and works out at the recruiting office weekly. It helped Joe a lot. Miss my youngest so much. The hardest part is not being able to call or text anytime I want. But after bc...
Nice to meet you :) Karen
Jessesmom, Thank you for loving the video. I came home from taking Joe to MEPs and started looking for a Navy mom near me to talk to. She had Sail on Sailor playing in the background. I was inspired, but not savvy enough to pull it together. First my daughter put it together on her apple. But I couldn't get it to work anywhere. Then I had my son put it on his newer computer. I'll have to ask him what the software was that he used. It was something that came with the computer. It was a challenge putting it together. But well worth it. I posted it on facebook and this sight. Tried to put it on YouTube, but the song wasn't allowed. And it was too big to email people that don't do the facebook thing. Makes me cry every time I watch it :(
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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.
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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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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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He said he was doing well ~ has good days and then some "not so good days" as he put it. I hope you've gotten a letter by now :) It will help for sure! I miss him terribly too! I've never gone more than a day without talking to him...this is so hard. We haven't booked our hotel yet, going to do that this week.
Dear Jessesmom,
This animalcookie I got the response you sent about our first born leaving. And I want to say THANK YOU. I know exactly how you feel when our sons do come back I've been told they will be men. When they do come back I know our hearts will once again be filled with happiness hang in there the days are getting easier.
The very least I can say is.... I AM struggling!!! I need to hear his voice! When did your son leave?
Karen
Nice to meet you :) Karen
You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions. Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!
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-Colleen and Elizabeth