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
Proposal from bootcamp
Hello ladies! My SR shipped out April 17th.Before he left our relationship was great but no talk about marriage yet. His first letter home he asked me to marry him and every letter since has been focusing on the marriage topic. He was injured 3 weeks ago and still is in RCU. Since then he is really into it now. I spoke with him 2 weeks ago for an hour and he told me that he wants me to go ahead and start planning the wedding so that when he returns we can go ahead and marry. He even wrote my mother asking for her blessings. He and I were together for 6 months before he left. Everyone that I tell, tells me not to get my hopes up because they all do that in boot camp because they are lonely and miss home but once they get to A school they usually do not follow through with their promises from boot camp. His A school is in Gulfport, MS for 7 weeks and then he returns home because he is in the reserves. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? I am looking for a bit of insight as to whether I should wait until he returns to start planning or just go ahead and start.
Thanks so much!
Mandy
Views: 1740
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Mandisa-R on
-
First I'd like to start by thanking you for the insight. My sailor is from a really tiny town about an hour away from Jacksonville. I am from Miami but my parents are from the Caribbean and South America. We met here at work. So to him I am from another world and he is different to me. I believe that is sparked the interest for the both of us. I am not worried about the cheating. I am more concerned about their state of mind whilst in boot camp and if it is normal if they are missing home so much that it would cause them to think about marriage prematurely. He has also become allllllloooooootttttttt more spiritual which I am wondering if that is playing a part in his decision as well. He has always had a close relationship with God but he is on another level with his studying.
-
-
Permalink Reply by Team Leo <3 on
-
Anti M : I so believe that is true. Happened to my brother and ex wife. He missed her so much during boot camp asked her to marry him and that turned out bad. She cheated. They had a baby before he left to boot camp so didn't change much... like I said, my sailor doesn't bring up the marriage as much, but for one thing I do know is that I'm glad I didn't get my hopes up for a wedding right away. I know there will be one, but in a couple of years.
-
-
Permalink Reply by Anti M on
-
Congrats for when it happens! Maybe in August you two can set a time frame for progress. Not like a set the date thing, or an ultimatum, just an agreement not to let your relationship stagnate.
I was a rushed marriage, we were engaged over the phone, but because we had no idea when we'd see each other again, we got married on leave so we knew the Nay would eventually try to put us together. Military marriages are hard enough, dual military is rough.
-
-
-
Thank you :)
And well the good thing that you're still with your sailor, despite the fact that marriage was rushed. -
-
Permalink Reply by nightingale cvn72 on
-
It didn't personally happen to me, but there are a few girls I know that got similar letters or were proposed to directly after graduation. And all of them are still with their sailors and two of them were just married because their hubbies got out of aschool. It all depends on your situation, don't let other's negative experience darken your happiness. Everyone told my husband and I that we couldn't do it, but we are stronger than ever. Congratulations on your engagement, and good luck with planning!!! If you ever need someone to talk to feel free to shoot me a message :)
-
-
Permalink Reply by Navymomfriend on
-
I am not a girlfriend or wife, but I have a daughter who went the same thing. Her boyfriend broke up with her a month before he shipped off to boot camp, saying he needed to do what he wanted, etc. etc. Ended up being together the week before he left and then he begged her to visit him KC while he was there the day before he actually left. They were back where they had been before the breakup, and while in boot camp she wrote him EVERY DAY. The first day his dividend received mail, he had 15 letters waiting. He wrote her saying he wanted to marry in December, start planning everything. Graduation rolls around, we go - and things all started changing. Once he had his cell phone and liberty, all downhill. They broke up in November - after two years together. She found out that no one in A school knew he had a girlfriend much less a fiance. Was sexting with females in A school. I am not saying it is like this for everyone. I believe he changed because he found a new sense of freedom of being able to do things without family or girlfriend finding out. My daughter is thankful that she isn't married now, and that she found out a lot of information about things he did in A school. yes, flirting and cheating goes on because they think that no one will find out, but somehow the ones who need to know do find out.
-
- ‹ Previous
- 1
- 2
- 3
- Next ›
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
