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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.
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:
**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.
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Michael's mom, you may be right. As most of us know already, our sailors are not always given accurate information. My sailor did say that if he had not been picked up in May, he would have been discharged OR given a change of orders (that's really what we were hoping for - something he could use his degree, smarts, drive, etc for). Anyway... I asked him more about it last night. He said his new command officer told him this but wasn't surprised at all that he hadn't been given the entire pricture
NEED FOR AN ADMIN (S).
I would leave the name of the group but I add a description which would appear right underneath like "It's OK. It's not forever." or ??? It appears to me that Sheila Clark the creator of the group is no longer active. My apologies if not true. One of you moms could step up and request to be appointed as an admin of this group. Send a message to the Navy For Moms Admin. The admin (or admins) of a group can change the group name (but not the internet address), the description or the status (make it private or public). The admin could also revise the discussion parameters. Edit to the INFORMATION part. Add PAGES. The admin could suspend a member from this group or unsuspend a member. ONLY THE CREATOR CAN DO THE FOLLOWING TWO ITEMS: DELETE THIS GROUP OR DELETE COMMENTS POSTED BY ANOTHER MEMBER.
When my son joined the Navy, Navy For Moms did not exist. I worried and suffered all by myself. It was lonely. I am glad this site is here for you to connect with each other. My son finished his commitment two years ago. Through this site, I have made wonderful friends, many with whom I get together on a regular basis. We are from every walk of life - bonded together by our love of our sailors and concern for their safety and now genuine affection for each other.
Often, a person who is trying to be helpful will come across being negative and high handed. I have been accused of this a number of times in the past. I have learned to be more supportive in offering advice and suggestions and be cognizant that many moms need support first and foremost. I have read everyone's comments and reread the "negative" comments several times which I think contain some real good and useful information (in all fairness to this member). Please don't hesitate to ask. I will gladly help whenever I can.
Hello Everyone, I happened to come upon this group and have been following the comments posted.
1. It doesn't matter if he/she is UNDESIGNATED for a while. It won't be forever. We as parents have gotten too involved with the "comparison shopping" mentality. We get nervous if our child is not at the same level as another. We then lose sight of what we have right in front of us - a real young man or woman who may be very very green around the gills, who might not have any clue as to what he wants to do, who might change his mind a million times, who might fall behind and let opportunities slip by but by the very fact he has joined the Navy is trying to explore what is out there, to gain some independence, to earn money, to be his own person. This is your child. Give him the gift of knowing that your love is not conditional on his achievements. It sounds easy - but it is not. Especially when you encountered people who are nattering nabobs of negativity. The kids will make it. Stay positive. Stay supportive of your child and of each other. Enjoy your time with them.
2. Real case scenario. I know a young man who joined the Navy right out of high school. He scored well but rates for which he was qualified were not available. His recruiter suggested that he wait for something to come up. His girl friend had just shipped out to BC. He didn't want to go to a local junior college. He hadn't applied to any 4 year college. He was in fact seriously floundering. He jumped at the chance to go undesignated. His mother couldn't figure out what to make of it. This young man passed BC and was sent to Japan (to chip paint and clean). Fast forward 6 months. We saw him at Christmas. He was happy. Painting and cleaning was not fun but he survived. He had matured and grown and started to develop ideas of what he wanted to specialize in. It turns out he was good with languages. He worked and studied and got the Intel rating he wanted and was on his way to the Language school in Monterey.
3. Every child is different. Some chart a path and reach their goals without breaking a sweat. My older son is like that. Once he sets a goal, it's as good as accomplished. His younger brother is equally intelligent and talented but likes to meander here and there. He does not like being told what to do and when to do it. It will take 10 years for him to reach the same financial level his brother reached at 28. It took me a while (in fact a long time and with many painful episodes) to "get" this kid. I now have no doubt that he will be successful in whatever he wants to do. Allow your child to be himself who he wants to be.
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