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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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:
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:
**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
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.)
N4M Merchandise
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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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ALUMNI OF PIR 10/03/2014 TG 47 - 11 Divisions (305-314 and 947)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on October 3, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 91
Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2015
WELCOME to PIR 10/03/2014! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP
~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.
~N4M’s also has Community Guidelines just like any other social media.
~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.
~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:
• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:
• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.
Some Suggestions:
~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.
~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option
~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends"
Discussion Forum
Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 313 and 314 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Belinda Oct 10, 2014. 108 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 309 and 310 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by lovingmom Sep 30, 2014. 45 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 305 and 306 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by J'sstepmom (Ship11/Div 305) Sep 26, 2014. 16 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 307 and 308 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by HollyPhx Sep 26, 2014. 26 Replies 9 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Sep 21, 2014. 6 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 12 (USS Triton) Divisions 311 and 312 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by navyprincessmom Sep 17, 2014. 22 Replies 2 Likes
My sr is sh 13 div314
Started by VICTOR'SMOM. Last reply by ellen0502 Sep 11, 2014. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 947
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ambermc Aug 20, 2014. 2 Replies 2 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by J'sstepmom (Ship11/Div 305) on August 27, 2014 at 9:16am
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I can definitely understand that flowerpowernavymom. What an amazing job well done though. I can't imagine the single parent life. I can't imagine giving birth to a child. It is probably beyond words. I unfortunately can't have children biologically however, I DO know how the love of a momma feels. Thanks to my husband and his ex - wife sharing J' and his sisters life with me. :)))) It sounds like you have been a great blessing in their lives. I will pray for peace for you. Like my husband told me when I told him I no longer felt needed. He said J will always need me because I was always his encourager. We are his "home". Not just physically but emotionally. :)
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Comment by FlowerPowerNavyMom on August 27, 2014 at 8:59am
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J'sstepmom, I learned a long time ago, *I* can not look back, but only forward. I will never live anywhere my sailor can not call home but at the same time, logistically, its what I needed to do. My sister thought it was way too soon, but she is a 'keeper' of stuff, whereas I am not.
You know, it dawned on me today, I don't feel needed anymore and I think that is a huge reason I feel empty. My whole life my mom needed me due to physical and health reasons. Then I had my son, single parent here, and then they both needed me. I live with my boyfriend, but we are adults and very independent. I am just kinda floating through life, nothing really seems to matter right now.
ok, enough of that... Happy Wednesday All! 37 days!
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Hey codysmom, Have they figured out what's up with your son? I agree with Charity, everything happens for a reason. Many hugs and prayers!
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@codysmom, I'm so glad you got to talk to your son. I've been praying for your family. Thank you for sharing. It does make the heart smile.
@flowerpowernavymom, I NEED to. I think it would help me too. I doubt J will ever live with us again either. Sad but it's what it's all about. :) I'm hoping this weekend.
@Samantha, I'm so ready!!!!! :)
Have a great day everyone.
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Comment by Samantha on August 27, 2014 at 8:35am
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Happy 37 days until we see our loves again!
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My son's room is all cleaned out. I had too. Part of my grieving process. I still have stuff around the house of his and there is stuff in his room. His high school diploma is still on the table in the livingroom. His shoes still in the entry way. But I had to accept the fact he probably wont live with me again.
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Comment by codysmom on August 26, 2014 at 10:39pm
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Hi everybody! Got a call from my son today and he will probably be home next week! We talked for 30 minutes and he shared lots of info...He said P week was awful and the homesickness was tough but it was passing! He also shared some funny stories related to the yelling...apparently some of the RDCs have a sense of humor! He even told me that some of them would make an effort to explain the mock stress placed on the recruits. This made my heart smile! I thought yours might too! :)
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Comment by Lane's mom on August 26, 2014 at 10:10pm
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I agree Oct 3rd can't get here soon enough. I haven't cleaned my son's room either...and I was going to do it right away. I just can't bring myself to do it. His cap and sunglasses are sitting right where he left them in the family room downstairs. It is hard to get used to him not being there just chilling, watching tv.
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Comment by diannep on August 26, 2014 at 10:07pm
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ZachandNik'sMom: The sailors have to return to their ships right after PIR briefly so she should be able to get the bathing suit then.
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Comment by williewish on August 26, 2014 at 9:31pm
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I agree! :))))
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