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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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Naval Aviation

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For Moms with Aviators or anyone interested

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Latest Activity: Feb 3

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Comment by Kabar on November 13, 2014 at 9:32pm: Wondering if anyone can make a referral or offer advice...

My DS is renting a house in Virginia Beach with 2 other pilots. The lease on the house is through a rental agency and ends in June. There is a military clause that breaks the lease in case of deployment.

The situation,,,One of his roommates is getting deployed next month. Another in February and DS in April. They thought the lease would be broken with this first deployment, however the leasing agency says not true. They want to hold DS and the one roommate responsible until the second deployment and then my son alone until his.

Has anyone run into this before? Can anyone make a referral for help releasing them all from the lease? Two cannot afford the place, let alone one. Thank you.

Comment by chrisean on November 7, 2014 at 2:52pm: Hi, I just received a call from my son who is a student aviator and he stated that he might be receiving his wings in December or January. He will not know for another couple of weeks. He is at the Milton navy base in Fl. How do you make reservations if it has not been confirmed?

Comment by CheriH on October 18, 2014 at 8:42am: A roller coaster ride indeed flyboymom! After the joy of winging, the nail-biting of SERE, the flurry of moving and getting settled, our DS is back to the Navy waiting game. They told him he would have nothing to do until at least February. So he bought himself a project car. The engine doesn't work, so he had to tow it home. But the fun of searching for parts and figuring out how to fix it will keep him busy for quite some time. His wife hasn't found a job yet, but is doing some online certification, so they both have some purpose and flexibility. They seem to be handling the waiting game much better this time around. I'm so grateful. I leave next week to visit my daughter and will fit in a weekend trip to Lemoore to see DS while I'm there. I love seeing them in their new surroundings!

Comment by helenp on October 7, 2014 at 10:45am: Thank you everyone for the support. I did read nancyW's post on page 170 and it gives great insight. He has been gone for one week now and I am feeling better. My DS has settled into his apt. in Pensacola is getting his physicals and is waiting to "class up." I guess for IFS. S the journey has begun. I have always liked roller coasters.

Comment by ulua on October 1, 2014 at 2:06pm: Hi all,

Helenp, one of my favorite postings is by nancyW, page 170 on this naval aviation group site, Jan 15, 2013. Part of it reads...

We fly our flag, have our blue star mom sign proudly displayed, put up and take down yellow ribbons and put them up again. When he comes home, we hang on every word, we listen to the stories, our hearts thumping in our chests ...and we learn to let go.

Read the entire post Helenp, its wonderful, thankyou Nancy for your post.

Comment by NOAM on September 30, 2014 at 10:55pm: hang in there helenp!

Comment by JudyM on September 30, 2014 at 7:54pm: Paymaster, you are always so right on.

Comment by Paymaster on September 30, 2014 at 5:59pm: Helenp....We call that the deer in the headlights look, when your non military friends look at you and think it's just some little thing.

Comment by helenp on September 30, 2014 at 3:35pm: Thanks. I feel better already knowing you all understand. Some non-military friends just assumed it was the "empty nest," but it's not that.

Comment by Paymaster on September 30, 2014 at 3:16pm: helenp....Yes, those emotions will just pop in there when we least expect them. Don't worry, we will all be here for you when you have the next round of emotions. Because we have all had them, and more than one occasion of them.