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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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Letter-Writing Navy Moms

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Show support for your Sailor and express yourself with a hand-written gesture. Have any tips to share? Feel free to add your comments and experiences to help other moms and loved ones!

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Latest Activity: Jan 18

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Comment by girl64 on August 5, 2014 at 6:30pm: what is that link about the schedule called

Comment by girl64 on August 5, 2014 at 6:29pm: whatever, that is a great idea. i'm going crazy wondering how my SR is doing and what he's doing just out of curiousity even.

Comment by whatever on August 5, 2014 at 6:17pm: Just an idea but I printed off a day-to-day schedule that was on the DEPS site that said what they are doing each day one young man who went through boot camp wrote about each days schedule so I look at the schedule see what they are doing and picture them doing that and write about that. I'm only a week into the process but I know my SR is getting his peanut butter shot tomorrow so I tried to draw a peanut and wrote ouch in large letters. Knowing what he's doing helps me kind of relate to know what he is going through. Even though he gets it a week later he can probably remember

Comment by spomss on August 5, 2014 at 5:35pm: congrats on your halfway to hugging your Sailor!!! I know it gets tough and feels like you have nothing new to say but every the everyday stuff is ok...he may want to hear about what you have been up to...I would write stuff about what would be coming up in his training schedule...and found info about 'famous' Sailors and would include that-like Paul Newman and Fred Gwynn (he was Herman Munster) just to let him know that everyone goes through 'basic' training...

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on August 5, 2014 at 3:48pm: When you hit the halfway mark for BC...did any of you find that it was difficult to think of things to write about? I feel like I don't know what to really write about anymore as life around here hasn't been all that exciting. My son isn't into sports, so I can't write about that. He wasn't watching any particular shows, so I can't write about that. We don't have any pets, so I can't write about that. I'm just starting to run out of ideas and I feel like I am just repeating myself on some of the encouraging stuff I'm writing. How did you find creativity? Maybe it will get better when I get another letter from him tomorrow or Thursday. HOPING for tomorrow!

Comment by spomss on August 3, 2014 at 7:11pm: what a great idea Sierrascrapper!!

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on August 3, 2014 at 4:13pm: I purchased a small little booklet called Pocket Posh Brain Games at Barnes and Noble before my son left for BC. I've been tearing sheets out and slipping them into my son's letters. He said he really likes them and send me to make sure I send more.

Comment by lemonelephant on July 31, 2014 at 10:32pm: girl64, he would not need it at the RTC except possibly to pay for his picture package (See Division T-Shirts, Graduation Photos, The Keel, and DVD of PIR). There would be no problem in his receiving it in a letter. I suggest that you send it in a greeting card if you choose to send it to him rather than waiting until after PIR to give it to him. If there is something you need to know, then it is not a stupid question.

Comment by girl64 on July 31, 2014 at 3:31pm: Hi, I am wondering what would happen if I sent my sons debit card in the letter? Do they even need one in boot camp? His is going to expire before graduation. Does anyone know if they need them? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on July 16, 2014 at 10:54pm: YUP...all 6 pages on RTC paper. Loved it! I'll try to add a couple blank sheets to my next letter. It didn't seem like he's gotten any letters from home, so I hope that he is getting flooded with them by now. I plan on sending out a questionnaire this week and I'm working on the next one to send out too. It's hard to think of stuff to write sometimes and I feel like I am repeating myself, but it seems like from his letter that he will enjoy whatever it is that he gets to change up his own daily routine. We are sending our first round of printed photos on paper this week too. That aughta really brighten his day as they sure were fun to put together for him. Thank you to all of you for your wonderful advice as it has really helped prepare me for this part of the journey.