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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**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).

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**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.

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For Moms or Wives who have loved ones on the Alaska, either Blue or Gold Crew.

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Comment by karinabeana611 on May 3, 2013 at 9:19pm: Have a good weekend, everyone! :) Hope the weather is great wherever you all are! :)

Comment by donnab on May 3, 2013 at 9:39am: My son mentioned it could be longer, which was not what I wanted to hear since this is his first time out. A first for him and me.

Comment by karinabeana611 on May 2, 2013 at 10:22pm: susan&donnab-

Alex told me it would be longer as well, but yes, he wasn't specific about it either. Personally, I'm planning on it being closer to four months just so that if he's back earlier it will be awesome and unexpected but I don't think it will actually be that long. :)

Comment by susan on May 2, 2013 at 10:15pm: My son told us before they left that it would be a bit longer but wasn't specific.

Comment by donnab on May 2, 2013 at 10:05pm: Anyone heard if the gold crew will be gone more than 90 days?

Comment by karinabeana611 on May 2, 2013 at 9:22pm: Kathy-

That was so cool what you wrote! It does seem that in some little rural towns throughout the country everything IS so simple, and they don't get out much. As for me, my family loves to travel, so I've been all over the country, and yes we once were in a town in West Virginia where there was a small population and it seemed like many people stayed right around there their whole lives.

It is so true of what you said about saying "I love you". That's always in our emails, although we both said when we first started dating that we didn't want to be the couple that overuses the three words so much they become almost meaningless. It's always such a good reassurance with people that truly share love, too! :)

What is a Sea Service Ribbon? Is that one of the colored things on the opposite side of the uniform as their name?

Thanks :)

Comment by Kathy on May 2, 2013 at 7:23pm: The town that I am from in Louisiana was small it has grown so much over the past couple of years. But the people are still the same simple people, that some of them have never been out side of the state, that New Orleans is the farthest they have been. When I was in the Army and would ware my uniform home people would just stop and stare. So when my son wore his uniform he had a guy ask him if it was a real uniform. He could not believe what he had just heard and looked at me like did I just hear what I heard. He told me yes and got in the car that is when I told him that they would do the same with me. When his father went to Desert Storm I had no family support and I was all by my self in Germany. So I know what you are going through.

I always end my emails with "you be good and love you. I always tell him that I love him, every day that he left for school when he was little to now when ever I take to him on the phone or either when I email him. Because you never know when you will see him again and I don't want to miss that if ever there was that last time I could tell him that I love him. He always tells me yea what ever.

Maybe you should see if there is a Blue Star group where you live. Blue Star mothers is a group of mothers that have children in the military.

Always glad to give yall a understanding ear, or encouragement. You know if the guys are at sea for 90 consecutive days they can get a Sea Service Ribbon, so fingers crossed that they make it this time.

Comment by karinabeana611 on May 1, 2013 at 5:32pm: In emailing my sailor (who is on deployment now) I included a line that makes perfect sense to anyone who's had a sailor on deployment, but it would seem SO strange to anyone not familiar with what it's like!

"I miss you lots, and I'm so happy that it's almost been a month since I last heard your voice!"

I'm so glad that everyone here understands what it's like, as in the small little town I live in, there aren't many people who have been in as situation like this that get what I'm saying sometimes! :)

Keep smiling, you all are such an encouragement to keep going. If so many women have made it through with their sailor, be it a husband or a son or a boyfriend, we can, too! :) Happy May Day! :) MAY you have a great month! :)

Comment by Kathy on April 30, 2013 at 6:50pm: Well ladies we finally got some rain here last nigh, we need it here so bad that our lakes are drying up. I gave up camping a while back when ever my son got out of Boy Scouts. If it does not have room service I don't do it. Hope the rest of the week is good for everyone.

Comment by NavyMomLG on April 29, 2013 at 7:32pm: It's miserable camping in the rain. You can't keep anything dry, even if you are in a camper. I hope it dries out a little for you.