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
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
Harder that i ever though it was going to be
It only been a week since my boyfriend left for bootcamp. I never imgained that is was going to be this hard. we havn't recieved his box or form letter yet so we dont even have his correct address to send him letters. i just want the days to start moving it feels like its been forever allready without him, i wish i could make him change his mind and he would come back here and never leave again but i know thats never going to happen and ijust need to accept the fact that i have 4 years of missing him ahead of me.
does anybody know why its taking so long to recieve the box does that mean that his weeks havnt started yet?
Views: 293
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Ship 11 Div. 351 Katelyn on
-
yeah im trying my best to stay busy and praying it only gets easier.....do you get communication on deploment?
-
-
-
awe thats good....so do you no how long the pdays are
-
-
Permalink Reply by abuon18 on
-
Processing days. They say to pretty much consider the first week p-days because depending on what division they are put into it may take the whole week.
-
-
-
I don't blame you! I have 9 days left and I am ready for it to be over and in the past and done! lol
-
-
-
Well for his rate he still has a year and a half left of school after boot camp so I do have some more time with him and to adjust to everything!
-
-
-
whats ocs? and when will he be back? i know i wish they couuld at least talk at night so i can know how his day was and say goodnight i hope this is the hardest part of them being in the service but i doubt it. =(
-
-
-
It usually does take about a week to receive the box so you may get it today, or sometime this week. The form letter usually follows the box by 2 or 3 days. The first couple of weeks are definitely the hardest, but once you get through them the rest really do start flying by! I go see mine graduation next Friday and I can honestly say looking back it seems like it went by incredibly quickly for the amount of time it was!
-
-
Permalink Reply by Bethy3 on
-
I was in the exact same position as you 43 days ago. I remember laying in bed on the second day and crying myself to sleep because he wasn't there to tell me goodnight or that he loved me. But I had to remember that he was in a new place and just as lonely as I was. I had to remember to stay strong for him, because I know that he wouldn't want me to cry.
It's odd because the days went by fast but the weeks seemed to go by quickly. I know that it makes no sense but it will. I wish you all the luck in the world, my main advice is just to stay busy! I have 15 days 9 hours and 12 minutes until his graduation. Just start a countdown on your phone and before long you'll be giving another girl the same advice that I'm giving you. :)
-
-
Permalink Reply by chelsjade17 on
-
My SR has been at bootcamp for exactly 10 days now and we recieved the box with a short letter on the back of his graduation info. Girl, I'm telling you right now- be strong. It's difficult for all of us, but the days keep getting easier. Just think how much joy this job brings to him...this is his dream, and if he were home, don't you think he'd be miserable? Sure he probably loves spending time with you, but just like my SR told me, "I'm aquiring the job skills needed to provide to you a healthy and happy relationship forever." So chin up, if your love is as real as you think it is, everything will work out perfectly :)
-
-
-
Yeah i know thats what i keep telling myself i know how bad my boyfriend wannted to join to serve and do his share and i know its making him happy. i know he is missing us just as much as we are missing him and i will see him in 49 days so im doing my best to keep my brave face on but i have my moments
-
-
-
That's what we're here for :) When you have your moments... it happens, it happened A LOT to me, and it's okay, it's normal.
-
-
Permalink Reply by Ksteele11 on
-
It's been just over two weeks now since my SR left... I'm not going to lie it's getting slightly easier because I'm learning how to live with out him around again. Though it's still rough...He's my best friend and my love. I hate not being able to even text him. I randomly broke down and cried this morning even. We went from spending every second together to nothing... and it's been difficult... especially thinking this is how it'll be for the next 8 years at least.
I'm sure you've heard it before already though take this time to do things for you... for example.. I've always wanted to go skydiving... tomorrow I'm driving out and starting to take classes to become certified. I figure if my man gets to learn and do all these extreme things so will I. ;] I'm figuring that at least he wont be able to distract me from school and I can truly focus on building my life. Then we all know how when our SR comes home to us we'll never take those moments for granted and cherish it completely.
We just need to support our guys and help them push through all of this! We can't let them give up for this is their dream. We have the rest of our lives a head of us... I would rather have that small amount of time with my SR then none at all.
Eventually we'll be in Great Lakes! Even though I agree..the days are draggingggg!!
-
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
