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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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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went into my sons room he was sleeping away then it was an abstacle course tripping over his games, xbox turtles, picking up clothes then i thought wow soon i will going into a empty room not tripping over anything or picking up clothes. a wave of sadness came over me so at 5am I started doing laundry and cleaning the house its what i do best when i have to think about something else. Then I started going through his senior package for high school and signing up for everything just so that i will have a part of him with me always. I signed up for grad cd, senior slide show even a class portrait because 6 of his closest friends have all signed up for a branch of the military. Then my emotions have gotten the better of me to know that his father has no clue how much the Navy means to him and that how special this young man is he has missed it all just because his father wont take the time to be there for his son makes no sense to me but all i can do is make sure he knows he is loved. explain to me why when a man starts a new family then they forget about the first one. all i know is that i will be there always

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Comment by Navy mom x2 on February 12, 2012 at 12:22pm

thank you so much denise it has just been a bad morning i appreciate to hear from you and will think about the mess he will bring home it put a smile on my face

 

Comment by Navy mom x2 on February 12, 2012 at 7:26pm

my kid loves steak he is diffently a meat and potato boy.

Comment by MR.MOM-DIV-85 on February 13, 2012 at 12:56pm

Michael James MOM 3 days after my son left for BC I was cleaning his room & found 2 letters, 1 to me & 1 to his mom under the pillow with a sticky note "DAD" I knew my bed would be the first thing you wanted to clean so here ya go this should stop you in your tracks... lol... He was right . I won't go in to details but when I read what he had said in his letter I sat and cried for 5min... It is crazy to think of what we miss when they are gone ( like the cleanliness of their room lol) My son went into ROTC his first year of high school & we have talked over the years about the different services mainly the navy.. and to think what he has done in life so far is awesome. I miss him so much but I know he is in great hands (like your SR)  I have his first letter home in a lage frame on the wall just waiting for his PIR pictures and when his PIR is up I look forward to shaking the hand of a SAILOR a MAN, MY SON.. When he gets leave after A-school he will laugh to see I have all his letters, pictures and what-nots in scrapbooks LMAO. I wish you and your SR the best in life... P.S. Mom's aren't Dad's LOL 

Comment by BunkerQB on February 14, 2012 at 4:34pm

My sailor had organized and cleaned his room prior to leaving for OCS. Next month when he comes home permanently, he will find his room exactly the way it was when he left 5 years ago.  He is getting married in July. After that, the room will be redecorated.

I am sorry about the lack of interest from his father - his lost - you son has you - and it sounds like that is all he needs.

Comment by Navy mom x2 on February 14, 2012 at 7:31pm

wow that is awesome about his room i just cant bring myself to even thinking about packing it up. thank you for your words it is hard when his father has no interest thank goodness for grandfathers

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