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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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Does anyone on here know what being a military wife is like? As I mentioned before my fiancee is going to Navy CTI school (defense language) and I'm in nursing school. I'm trying to decide wheter to join the Navy as a Nurse Officer or just stay a civilian while my man's serving his time... Sigh
Mary, wow, I'm surprised to hear from another person from Rome who has a loved one in the Navy:) My fiancee has 4 weeks left in boot camp, then he's going to A-school for defense language in CA. Thanks for writting me, Hannah
Thanks Mary, Our son Michael graduated in May and is now in Yokosuka, Japan. We are so very proud of him. It's amazing since we actually live in an Army town that he chose the Navy. I think it was the best thing he could do.
Mary, Thanks , yes I do wonder all of this. I know she is fine. How long is it until you find out where you can write? I work quite a bit so that helps me stay busy and not think to much. I'm sure the winters are going to be tough up there. I'm so proud of her but we have some sick family. I have found the numbers for the Red Cross in case of an emergency. I want her to focus and I can't wait to see her already. Karen
LOL I work at an elementary school...I'm finishing the school year out for them...not me. We are working on getting debt paid down so we can buy a baby :) Wow I didn't think A school would takes so long...w/him being on hold I thought, maybe March at the latest. I thought...bc he told me...his C school would also be at GL. I guess like you said we will find out when he finish A school. Yeah I love being close its about an 8hour drive to Chicago, or I can usually fly for 120 round trip. Its nice just know our weather is simualr, idk why i like to think of him waking up as freezing cold as I am, and he said the same thing :D
Hi, My hubby is going to be on hold too. I wish I was moving to GL w/him but I am going to stay in Ohio and finish out the school year...we will see were he is then. He may have his first orders by then right? I work at an elementary school and has of now dont see a point in moving, he will hopefully work better w/out me to distract him. ;)
Thanks for the welcome. My son Ruairidh (pronounced Rory) is in A school for ET. He is on the USS Cole. His PIR was April 29th. At this point he's hoping for mobilecom. (I think that's what it's called). We've heard he may graduate before Christmas. We attended his PIR and my daughter and I went to visit him last month. Looking forward to having him home for Christmas.
All the best, Maureen
mary, he left 9/21 from Athens, and PIR will be (God willing!) 11/12.Only thing we've heard so far is the little blurb at bottom of form letter that they took his contacts the first night and has been w/o glasses for 2 days! Sure hope he's got a good attitude about it! He signed up for Nuke, which is great b/c I think much of the training will be in Charleston, only a couple of hours away. So cool yours is in Hawaii!!!! Have you gone?
At 8:16am on September 28, 2010, Jasons Wife said…
Lol I am cracking up laughing @ Wasteland!!!! I haven't heard anyone call it that, but I'm sure they still do!! My husband actually left for bootcamp last week on September 22nd so I am just now really getting use to him not being around. The kids, age 5 & 2 ask about him EVERY NIGHT. I Really don't know when I will be moving up to live with him. Our lease is up in FEB so depending on how many bills I have paid off by then will determine if I want to go. I'm still waiting around for the package he said I would be getting in the mail. I also have stacks of mail to send him with no address ! Lol
OK, give me a second. After I read Hawaii I didn't see anything else. I would LOVE for my son to be stationed in Hawaii? I would visit a lot. LOL OK, I am back. I would love to see my son move. It's so incredibly hard to find a good flight to IL. Thanks for the info and I look forward to talking to you more in the future. Congrats to your sailor and your family. Looking forward to the wonderful opportunity he has to learn and travel.
Thank you for the friendly welcome! My husband is in ET "A" School right now and he said he's over half way done :) I am so proud of my Sailor! I moved to GL in July but I have yet to meet any other wives. I work full time and we are expecting our first child together so I'm not left with much free time. Thank you for the info on the Navy Wives club, I'll look into it. Does your son love Hawaii? We would love to get staioned there :)
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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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All the best, Maureen