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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).

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

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Comment by Paymaster on August 8, 2014 at 12:51pm: M's mom....We all live and learn. I feel that our children are most valuble, so I never like to endanger them. After the Navy has done their news release on shipe out is a safe time to mention them here.

Comment by M's mom on August 8, 2014 at 8:59am: Paymaster: Sorry. I didn't write the ship's name, so I thought it was acceptably vague. Some here have asked if anyone has a LO on a certain ship. I assume that's OK to ask about a particular ship after it's out to sea?

Comment by Paymaster on August 7, 2014 at 11:28pm: M's ....you may want to delete your message as we never put actual dates of departures on our post. From an old hand.

Comment by Gatormom on August 7, 2014 at 9:44pm: Candio box was a huge success! Got a 45 minute call from our son last. Can't wait for graduation, just 3 short weeks away!

Comment by marzidoatz on August 1, 2014 at 8:20am: I went to this website: https://ombudsmanregistry.org/?m=contactombudsman and sent a message. In a short time, I was contacted by the ombudsman for the ship my daughter is assigned to. She explained that my daughter will be given an email address connected to the ship and can provide the contact information to the ombudsman. The gal was very nice and gave me both her work phone number and personal phone number.

Comment by Gatormom on July 31, 2014 at 8:34pm: Thanks Lisbeth! So much change ahead. Candio week is next week--finally! Hopefully, when we get to talk to our son, he'll be able to answer some of our many questions.

Comment by M's mom on July 31, 2014 at 7:39pm: marzidoatz, My son will be leaving on his first long cruise soon also, so I also wonder how we get on the ship's ombudsman's list. My son says he doesn't know yet. How about it cruise veteran Moms? Thanks!

Comment by marzidoatz on July 30, 2014 at 7:52am: Do I understand this right? I look up the ship information and then send a message to the email address listed for the ombudsman to request updates? Or does my daughter provide the information to the ombudsman? Thanks in advance - Mary

Comment by Gatormom on July 30, 2014 at 6:36am: Thanks Anna for your response, too. I really appreciate it. It will all be great for his career, but some tough years.

Comment by Gatormom on July 30, 2014 at 6:34am: Thanks Lisbeth. Had no idea how it worked. Certainly going to take some getting used to. We live in Gainesville Fl, which is where UF is, that he attended, so this will be our first experience with him being gone. Sounds like the boomer will give him more time off. What does the one crew that's not on the sub do for the 3 mos the other sub is out?