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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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AECF - FCs and ETs

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For families that have a loved one serving the Navy as an FC or an ET. This is the place to share and learn more about their jobs and schools. For subs - look for the SECF group.

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Latest Activity: Feb 14, 2023

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Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on May 8, 2015 at 8:51pm: Hi everyone. My son is on deployment. He is now an I.A. Independent Augmentee ( hope I spelled that correct). He was serving on The USS Gonzalez. Now he is on the USS Ponce.
Does anyone else have family on this ship?

Comment by Vickyrun on May 6, 2015 at 2:03pm: Good morning, Yes, Christine my sailor was on hold in GL after A school. It i snot so unusual. She even said to me "Mom, if the taxpayers knew how much money was being wasted paying sailors to do nothing!" But I don't think it ws for nothing. She learned patience , how to follow orders, how to work hard at whatever job you are given even if it is not an FC job, she learned leaderships skills. She worked in the office, she worked in the gym, she volunteered to work in the preschool on base. She did a lot of cleaning, watch and duty! She kept busy and eventually got to C School.

Comment by Anti M on May 2, 2015 at 2:35pm: Fingers crossed! I hope they are great orders.

Comment by Christine Proud Son of ET on May 2, 2015 at 11:36am: Thanks Anti M...

He got a verbal this week that he is coming home June 1st. No hard copies yet. But I am hopeful.

Comment by Anti M on April 26, 2015 at 7:33pm: I hope they straighten it out, billets come and go and they can't give him orders if it is all fluid. The first of the month should see new billets, so he should hear better news then.

Comment by Christine Proud Son of ET on April 26, 2015 at 11:29am: OMG that came out terrible. That is the last time I try to comment using my phone LOL

Comment by Christine Proud Son of ET on April 26, 2015 at 11:25am: What I found odd is at A school graduation he chose his base/ship. He was not coming home but going to zvirginia for c school. A week later they call him in to say he is not going on aircraft carrier he chose but instead a cruiser. He waits another1 week to find out he can come home before going to Virginia. I had everything planned and he calls 2 days before to say he is not coming and that c school will now be in SD. But tthat he will able to come home now for 2 weeks sometime at end of May. They will have hardd copies jn a week. That has turned to 4 and still mothing. No one else in his class had orders changed after A school and have all lect GL. He is climbing the walls. The cruiser they moved him to was getting new equipment and tgey were moving the C school to SD. That makes total sense. But the ship then became one of the 2 cruisers going into modernization every 2 years that started this year. I read they are tryingvto devide whether to streamline the crew already on the cruiser. My guess this is why they do not know what to do with him. He is going nits. He has decided to go volunteer in A school to help new recruites. This way he stays up on what he just learned because who knows how long it will be or he.

Anyone have experience with this?

Comment by Anti M on April 26, 2015 at 8:53am: Perfectly normal. Unfortunately, he is in the Hurry Up and Wait phase.

Comment by Christine Proud Son of ET on April 26, 2015 at 12:21am: My son finished A school at the end of March. Was supposed to go to C school in VA. He was supposed to come home for 2 weeks before C school. 2 days before I expected to pick him up from the airport he called to say they changed his orders. His hard copies have been torn up twice...he remains on hold since A school graduation and has been waiting 3 weeks for the latest hard copies. A little frustrated to say the least. :( Is this normal?