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

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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My son had his PIR on 3/13/15. It was a wonderful experience and I saw how much my son had matured in just 8 weeks. I knew as he was entering the Navy, that he signed up to be a submariner. He is now in Groton awaiting starting BESS and A school. I have been doing a lot of reading about the life of a NUB and submariner and quite frankly, I am very nervous and worried. I am not sure how I will be able to handle the long periods of no contact.

Any advice from experienced submariner moms? I don't have military experience and this is all so very new to me. New and scary. I simply cannot imagine not speaking to or seeing my son for months on end.

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Comment by BunkerQB on March 19, 2015 at 3:15pm

Please join the Sub Moms group and if your son is a nuke, join the Nuke Moms group. Is your son concerned?  If not, then take a step back and let him do this thing. If he is on a fast attack submarine you might not hear from him for 6-7 weeks. It won't be beyond that. NO EMAILS. NO CALLS. NO NOTHING. Do not call his command about this. You'll embarrass him. You'll be interfering with his job as a submariner.  We have all gotten used to calls, emails, texts from our kids every hour on the hour or at will.  Learn to focus on yourself and what you want to do with your life. He would not have been allowed into the sub service if he had not been deemed capable of handling it. Bottom line is you'll have to learn to deal with it.  Being in a group with other moms in a similar situation will help tremendously.  Good luck.  My former sailor was on a sub. He didn't think it was that bad. The food on his boat was wonderful.  They were all pretty smelly at the end.  Harder on moms than on the sailors.

Comment by Jujugirl on March 19, 2015 at 4:01pm
Thank you he is happy with his decision. It's just the mom in me. I have been reading the articles on a group page about the types of subs, the length of deployment, and the lack of communication. I know I will adjust its having all of the unknowns that worry me. And I do not communicate that to my son at all. He knows I am proud of him and will support his decisions. I did join the Sub Mom group already.

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