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:
Events
**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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
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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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Son Leaves for GL Sept 25, 2017
Proud, scared mom here... this is my oldest and still my baby!
Glad there is this space, makes me feel not so alone!
This site may be especially helpful as my son's father and I are no longer together, and things have been "heated" with my son living with him, I expect communications to be limited :(
Thank you for excepting me and HOOYAH to all of our loved ones!
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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Ladybug19, I left info for you on your My Page.
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Permalink Reply by Navybabymonkey on
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Welcome, My son leaves on 9/12 and I am a wreck. I also do not speak to my son's father and he lives with him until departure day. He is so ready to get away from the craziness there. We have become alot closer in the last year. So I kinda know what you are going through. I am just afraid that I won't get the info for his PIR in time, nor get his address and such.
Look forward to talking more with you.
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Hey ladies, I think this question was answered already but, I wanted to check again to see if anybody knows for sure. Mine ships on 9/25, which puts him at a PIR date of the day after Thanksgiving. Is the holiday a schedule changer to Wednesday the 22nd or is it still on Friday? Huge difference in refundable ticket prices for this week. I sure would appreciate some info if or confirmation I guess. I just don't have the money to put out over $3k for 3 refundable tickets for that week.
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The Thanksgiving TG has PIR on Wednesday and has Liberty on Thanksgiving. Those flying out will fly out on Friday instead of the day after PIR.
Do NOT buy refundable tickets. Book with Southwest instead. They allow you to change the flight with the only cost being the difference between the flights.
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You are very welcome.
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TreysMama. My son also leaves on 9/26. You are not alone! This site is wonderful for support and answers to any and all questions.
My older son had his PIR in July and is in Pensacola now. Like you, I am not together with my sons father. At my older son's PIR we both were there. Tough to do but my son wanted both of us and we even went to dinner together to support my son. It made him very happy. Also after PIR there was not a lot of time (we only had Friday till 8pm with him) so I didn't want my son to have to choose how much time he spent with each of us.
I din't know about the phone app SANDBOXX with my first but plan on using it with my second. It not only will send a letter but a return envelope and stamp so maybe if your son gets a letter from you and has a return envelope he will write back to you. I am looking forward to using the app.
Hang in there!!
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