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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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
Latest Activity
Navy Speak
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.)
N4M Merchandise
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.
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
Badge
ship 12 Division 354
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by cheryllynn-proud mom of a sailor on
-
Eric got a letter yesterday.... other than that....no news is good news...
-
-
Permalink Reply by musicmom of a Sailor on
-
SeansDad - Got a letter from my son yesterday. He is not nearly as stressed as he was a week ago : ) They are given a little time to write on Tues and Thursday now. He started his letter on Thurs. but had to finish on Sunday. The whole letter was much much more positive than the previous week's letter and phone call. I think they are doing better now. : )
-
-
-
GOT A LETTER!!!!! oh, man...at one point he says he is really bored and then he says he is so stressed out!!!! UGH!! with a ps... out of stamps...lol They haven't won any flags yet..
I had asked him what his favorite thing was and his response was...sleeping
He also included a letter to his younger brother who was struggling. It was a very nice letter and so encouraging....hooyah!! -
-
-
Yay!!! My son filled one of those questionaires. When it asked how he was sleeping, he replied " OK - bed is hard and pillow is as thin as paper" lol
I tied with our our dog for who he misses the most. I felt so important! rotfl -
-
Permalink Reply by SailorSeansDad(Ship12Div354) on
-
Glad to hear that it sounds like they are doing better. Hopefully either I or my ex-wife will get a letter soon. My son said the same thing about the beds when he called last week...not very comfortable at all. I guess you can't expect it to be a 4 star hotel!! LOL
-
-
Permalink Reply by Sassafras Proud Mom of a Sailor on
-
Hello everyone... my son Josh is Ship 12, Div 354, and last I heard from him (2 weeks ago), he was doing fine. I have read through most of the posts here and some of them are rather discouraging. Does anyone have any current info? And of course, no news is good news...
One question... after PIR, how much time do they get (how many days) to visit with family... Thanks!! -
-
-
sasafraswilds - I haven't heard anything since last Thursday. I'm keeping my fingers crossed they get a phone call this week because at least 3 or 4 other divisions have had phone calls in the last 3 days.
As for time after PIR, it depends on when your recruit has to go to A school. I think you will at least get Friday afternoon if they are Grad and Go. My son is nuke and we get to spend all weekend with him because he doesn't ship out to A school until Tuesday. : ) -
-
Permalink Reply by susanhb on
-
I have not heard anything for 2 weeks either. Hoping for a letter tomorrow. What is it that is discouraging to you? How much time they have depends on when they leave for A school. Some leave right away and some have the weekend. Last I heard my son thought he would have his orders next week. So about a week before graduation. We will know better then.Hope this helps. And I am still believing that no news is good news.
-
-
-
It was discouraging to read about the Div having some difficulty... especially the part about them being told they might have to start all over again. Still, no news IS good news... and I am hopeful that all is going well for them now. As to A-school, as I undertand it Josh is going into 'communications techology'. Also he said we should plan to stay for 'four or five days' after graduation... but that doesn't make sense in context of what I've read here and elsewhere... Thanks for any enlightenment you may share!
-
-
-
I think that when they tell them they will have to start over again they are using fear to motivate them. If one of our kids was not going to graduate on time I really think they would have made them make that call home by now. I could be wrong but that is what I think. Not knowing is the hardest part. Yesterday was a really bad day for me. Today is better. I don't really know that we will get another phone call until after Battle stations. They have to earn phone calls and if they aren't calling it may be because they are having trouble working as a team so not earning them. I don't think we will know anything for sure about what happens after graduation until they have their orders. Again, not knowing is the hardest part.
Maybe someone else will have more insight. -
-
-
As understand it, from reading elsewhere, if a determintion is made that recruit' PIR will be delayed they 'have to' call you immediately, that same day. So for now we can just know that everything is going according to plan...
-
-
-
I last received a call 2 weeks ago today and a letter the day after that. I contacted my exwife and she hasn't heard anything since then either. It seems likes some of the other divisions are getting more contact from their recruits so it may be that this division has had more issues than the others...which my son indicated when I spoke and in his letter. So yes...no news is good news and hopefully there will be letters and calls for all of us soon. :)
-
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
