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Navy For Moms

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

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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).

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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
PDF – 2.7 MB
PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Journey of 1,000 Days

I can't believe I'm almost an empty-nester! Seems I've been waiting for this a loooong time. And yet.... I know I will miss them all! Let me tell you a bit about my journey. When I married their dad 26 years ago, I wanted nothing more than to be a stay-at-home Mom and wife. Through God's grace, I had the privilege of doing just that. I was able to manage a busy household of five on one income, paid once a month at the end of the month for 21 years. God led us to home educate all 3 girls K-12 through 5 different household moves across 3 states. Not only have I been Mom, but teacher, discipler, and now mentor and friend to 3 adult daughters. It wasn't always easy with kids a year and a half apart, but it was rewarding. I tell others it was my favorite job in the world, even though I wasn't paid to do it. All of the girls have had some college and all have chosen different paths to adulthood. One chose to skip the education and go right to work. She is crazy talented in art but somehow got the notion art doesn't pay the bills and is doing something completely different. She hopes to move out sometime this year. Her dad and I are very ready for this to happen since she has lived with us since our 3rd year of marriage. Another daughter chose to apply herself to education. After community college where she excelled, she decided to take the dreaded "year off" to do some soul-searching before she had to declare a major. She spent 6 months in Japan as a missionary, teaching Bible lessons in English to Japanese kids in an after school program. She is now transferred to our state university to continue in Japanese as a major (for now, at least). The house seems emptier now that she's gone. She loves to cook and bake and experiment in the kitchen. I find that my house stays much cleaner as well : ) And now, youngest daughter decided the Navy could help her achieve her career goals. What can I say about Katie? She has been a very determined, matter-of-fact, organized, driven, child. Her and I haven't always seen eye-to-eye. It is only as she has matured that we've found some common ground and are building on that relationship. It was her idea to start Kindergarten at the age of four because she did not want to wait to learn to read. She decided that since we were taking another household move, she would just finish high school a year early and graduate with older sister. So when she asked what I thought about her joining the Navy, I thought to myself, you know, the Navy could probably teach her more leadership skills than I could. So here we are. It's about to get lonlier around here.