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 (USS Triton) Divisons 371 and 372 (Brother Divisions)
Welcome to the Division Discussion for Divisions 371 and 372
These two divisions are brother divisions and will be training together from the beginning through BS21 their final test. Your SRs, soon to be SAILORS, are becoming friends, and some of them may be heading to A School together.
Get to know each other, your SRs are!
Please still use the Main Wall of the PIR Group to post questions, and concerns, we “veteran” moms don’t always get to into the discussion area as often as we would like.
Every single question that is asked is important Every single concern is genuine Every single member is important to us We don't want to accidentally overlook any of them or you.
Hang in there!!!
Views: 1864
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Deb (Ship12/Div371) on
-
I will be...thanks for the reminder.
-
-
Permalink Reply by Shanon24 (Ship12/Div 371) on
-
Yes! I ordered the USS Triton coin & the Recruit Training Command Great Lakes coin. Both are really nice.
-
-
-
Shanon...didn't realize there was a RTC coin too. I'll have to look at that too.
-
-
Permalink Reply by pmorgan1975 (SHIP 12 DIV 371) on
-
Where do you find these coins?
-
-
-
In my daughter's letter yesterday...she mentioned they start "hell week" today. Their training days go in this order:
Fri - Week 4-Day 1
Sat
Sun
Mon - 4-2
Tue - 4-3
Wed - 4-4
Thu - 4-5
So far this is what I found regarding hell week...anyone else can chime in:
"Week 4 is known a "hell week". This is where everything the recruits have learned to date is tested. Several things happen. They wake up the recruits at 3:30am to get them ready for the day's activities. They bring in RDC's from other divisions and they compare their division to your division. They see how well you learned. Most RDC don't like to admit that your division is better so they find the simplest of fault to hit you on. You might have a small string hanging out of your pocket...hit. You might not have your "gig line" straight...hit.
By getting so many hits, your RDC are ticked. You get Physical Trained (PT) and Intensive Trained (IT). You will be standing at attention and parade rest for hours waiting for your turn to be inspected. Don't think this is punishment, think of it as teaching your recruits how not to faint while standing for hours. Knee's unlocked! What these RDC don't want is during the PIR for the sailors to faint in front of the crown. It's bad press. Those that are really taking hits during the inspection could be rolled back (set back) into another division to relearn what they have already been taught."
Below is what happens during week 4 (give or take a day). This is the week the sailors are tested. They are actually tested each day, but this week is when they seperate the men from the boys (sorry lady sailors, that's a generic term). This week has the most tests of any. BS21 is nothing to this. By the time BS21 comes around they have already learned their stuff. Ask any sailor who has been through it, they LOVE it. -
-
-
My daughter is in Div 371. Just looking for any info and connections with other families that she might be rooming with.
-
-
-
My daughter is in 371 also... =)
-
-
-
So your daughter has PIR Oct. 4th. I am so excited to see my baby.
-
-
-
Yep...I cannot wait either! I miss her SO MUCH! Are you on Facebook? We have a PIR 10-4 fb private group also.
Have you gotten letters from her? How's she adjusting? -
-
-
I am on facebook, I will look it up. I am new to all of this, my daughter wrote me about this site so I signed up. She seemd to be doing ok. Very homesick, and she got a cold so literally sick.
She said one thing she will never do is room with several girls again.
She also said she has started something called ship staff, it is basically when they clean the ship, then they do watch on the quartermaster and she is usually the Junior Officer on the Deck. So that sounds pretty good. Either way good or bad I am still proud of her decision to join the Navy.
-
-
Permalink Reply by enjoyapril (ship12 div 372) on
-
Hi my son is in division 372 what is the Facebook page I would love to be on it??
-
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
