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
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A message of encouragement for when times get tough.
Hang in there. This roller coaster hasn't ended yet. Soon enough it will head back up. Trust me. Last week I actually thought
that I could have been diagnosed "depressed", but this week everything
is AMAZING! I am flying on feelings of relief and love. It's the weeks
like this that keep us going. The weeks on cloud 9 are what keep us
strong and sane, but the deep pit falls of "depression" are what make
us stronger. The down weeks are what show us how much we love them.
They always remind us of the important things in life. #1 being our
sailors. We love them with all our heart because that love is what
gives them the strength to follow through to the end. Sometimes though
we find ourselves giving too much, so there is nothing left for us. The
sad weeks are the weeks that we learn to replenish our love so that it
can support both ourselves and our sailors. WE have the capability, as
navy wives, girlfriends, and fiances, to contain so much more love than
most civilian wives, girlfriends, and fiances could ever imagine
exists. WE love no matter the distance, no matter the time. WE give our
love to our sailors when times get hard because they need it more than
we do, and then WE learn to duplicate our love so we have enough for
ourselves as well. WE love them even when we know we will only be #2 in
their life because the Navy is #1. WE love them knowing that most of
the year we will be alone. WE love them because they are no ordinary
men. OUR men are Navy men, and for those that don't understand the
difference they don't understand NAVY LOVE! NAVY LOVE is an amazing
thing to know! Does it get hard? Yes. Does it make us stronger? Yes.
Does that make our love the truest form of love possible? YES! There is
NO love stronger than Navy Love!
I am in awe of Navy wives with children. Not only do they need enough
love for them and their sailors, but also their children. So to all Navy wives,
I salute you. You may be in the downturn right now, but when you come
back it will be as if a tornado hit town. You will discover the pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow, and it will be filled with enough love
for all of you and yours. You will be one of the wealthiest of women in
the world because when it comes down to it we are all just looking for
happiness, and a love fierce enough to fight for. Life means nothing if
you never find anything precious enough to fight for, wait for, and put
all of your affection into. All of us have found this. In a bit of
irony, WE are the luckiest women in the world.
I hope this helps you.
I hope this encourages anyone who reads this.
I will save this to read for when my roller coaster takes the deep
plunge, which always scares me to death! For real! The drop on roller
coasters scare me to death! Lol! :)
To all: have a great day. :)
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I don't any truer words have ever been spoken!
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