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:

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:

RTC Graduation

**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.

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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.)

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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

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Last night our family gathered at a local restaurant to honor my dad on his 77th birthday. Afterwards I went to my sister's home to plan my daughter's Anchors Aweigh party because my sister is awesome at party planning.  The rest of the family, not wanting the evening to end, followed us back to her house and we spent sweet fellowship together as an extended family.  As I reflect on these things this morning I am struck by the rich heritage my dad passed down to his family.  A Navy man for four years following high school, he better than anyone understands the sacrifice my daughter is making.    I find that everyone from acquaintances to complete strangers has an opinion about our military personnel and doesn't mind sharing with me.   The other night I was dining with my spouse and two gentlemen representing his business supplier and the rep, both conservative-minded in their values. Seeing my US Navy pin on my coat and hearing me proudly share my daughters aspirations in the Navy I was asked whether or not I was worried given the world climate. I told him that as a mom I will always naturally worry and wonder where she's at or if she is in harm's way, but that the longer I live the more I am convinced that I cannot control what happens in life but I know Who is in control and that I am learning to entrust those things and those I love to that Higher Power.  I believe that if my daughter dies it is her time and nothing can stop that from happening.  She could die driving the ambulance on a call late at night, or in a traffic accident on the way home from work, or two years ago when a gunman robbed the pharmacy she worked at and made her open the controlled substance cabinet while at gunpoint.  The point is, you don't have to be in the military to have a corner on the market on death.  All of us eventually die, some of us are just brave enough to give their lives for others should it be necessary.  I am proud of my daughter's selflessness in being willing to serve.  I am glad my dad and mom gave me a spiritual heritage to pass down to her and that it gives me a hope when the difficult days come when i won't see or hear from her for long stretches.  And I love that I can go to my dad for the strength and wisdom I need from one who has also walked the same path. Thanks, Dad, for such a rich spiritual heritage.

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Comment by Leach73 on February 2, 2015 at 1:15pm

Amen to that! Beautifully said! You are blessed :)

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