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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.

Format Downloads:

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 Helomom on September 12, 2014 at 8:26pm: M's mom, my son is aboard the Vinson too. It's a devastating day for us all.

Comment by M's mom on September 12, 2014 at 3:27pm: Moms: My son is currently aboard the USS Carl Vinson, and two of their jets collided and crashed this morning. They retrieved one pilot, but the other is still missing. Please keep all the sailors on the Vinson, especially these two pilots and their families, in your thoughts and prayers.

Comment by LindaB on August 20, 2014 at 10:13am: My son is deployed on a ship out of Norfolk and has orders to Annapolis, Md., when he returns. He is offering his house in Currituck County, NC, for rent and would love to rent it to Navy officers. It would be good for a couple of junior officers to share, or for a married couple. It's commuting distance to Norfolk Naval Station. It's on the water with two boat slips and in a quiet, safe neighborhood. Contact me for a link with photos.

Comment by Anna on August 13, 2014 at 9:38pm: freckles,

There is a guide to OCS that you should be able to find a link from the Naval Officer Command facebook page. He should read up on that as there are things he has to have memorized very quickly upon arrival at OCS. The more he can learn before hand the better off he will be. There is also terminology he needs to know, and info on how to respond when asked a question. These are all things my daughter and her friends studied up on and they were all glad they did!!!!

Comment by Gatormom on August 13, 2014 at 5:44am: My LO graduates OCS end of month. Just got his orders for power school in Charleston for November. Do they get leave for Thanksgiving & Xmas? Do they have to live on base or is it an option? Sounds like it's a very challenging school.

Comment by freckles1218 on August 12, 2014 at 7:48am: Thanks for the link - I will check it out. He is a recruited runner at his division 1 college so running is the easiest thing he will do. He has been working on his push ups and sit-ups so he can be above the average mark. He intends to swim at least once a week to get ready but thinks the swimming is not that much? He thought maybe 50 yards or so? I will teach him to iron next week - he never had to do that. And we'll shine Dad's shoes for practice! I wouldn't have thought of those things. This is great to have tips from other moms!

Comment by BunkerQB on August 11, 2014 at 11:16pm: Here is the link to the PDF file. Click on it and save it to your hard disk. Some of the information may be out of date (eg. OCS is in Newport only no longer session in Pensacola).

http://navyformoms.com/group/ocsgraduatemoms/forum/topics/ocs-survi...

Comment by BunkerQB on August 11, 2014 at 11:12pm: freckles, in the OCS Graduate Moms group, there is a OCS Guide (or Guideline). Be sure you read that. Your son has some time before he goes to OCS. Make sure he starts running NOW and keep running. The better shape he is in, the better he'll do. Teach him to iron and shine his shoes (my son's two most dread obstacles). He doesn't swim well, time to get him lessons and make him swim everyday.

Comment by M's mom on August 9, 2014 at 8:04am: Welcome, freckles1218. We have had several new OCS moms join recently, so read back through the last several months of posts here and we may have already answered many of your questions. Also join the group here on N4M's called "OCS Graduate Moms" and read as much as you can of those postings, including the "Discussion Forum" topics listed above the comment walls in both groups. We have answered many questions recently for new Navy Moms, so just ask if you can't find an answer!

Comment by freckles1218 on August 9, 2014 at 6:53am: Hi all! I am new here - my son just got sworn in last Thursday. He will graduate college in May and has OCS and Power school in his future. He can't wait! We are excited for him but this is all new to us. Not sure how any of it works. We live in Upstate NY so Rhode Island is not too far and neither is Ballston Spa. Maybe he will attend there. Feel free to pass along any tips!