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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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Comment by roguevalgal on August 24, 2016 at 10:05am: Our son is stationed at NAS Whidbey Island, in a squadron that also deploys several times each yr. I'm not aware of any secure parking area on the air station for deploying personnel vehicles, but in 3 yrs our son hasn't had any problems parking his vehicle in the vicinity of his barracks while he goes on a "det" (short deployment). For the 6 month deployment, we picked up his car at Whidbey and drove it to our house in Oregon to take care of it while he was gone.
Best of luck to your daughter at Whidbey. It's a beautiful area with lots to do. Oak Harbor and the surrounding little towns on the island, as well as Anacortes, are fun to explore. The base has a very nice Navy Lodge as well as a terrific RV park with tent camping as well.
As previously mentioned, traffic in and around Everett, Seattle and Tacoma can be a nightmare.

Comment by Love My USN Kid on August 24, 2016 at 9:30am: Thanks for the great tips, Storymom. She'll be traveling on the weekend. We are wondering if she'll need her car there or if we should take her. Her squadron deploys several times a year. Do the have secure places to park POVs while deployed?

Comment by Storymom on August 23, 2016 at 10:35pm: Welcome LoveMyUSNKid...lucky you ♥ to have her stationed so close to home! (well, kinda close) Congrats to her! Watch out for the scam military vet in the rest area near Olympia on I-5...wants money, because he's out of gas (not) and wearing vet gear & bumper stickers to grab your sympathy. hand him a bottle of water & ignore :( He's famous for tall tales to get money for gasoline, but just wants your money. Avoid Tacoma/Seattle/Belleuve 7am-8:30am and 3pm-6:30pm. ( I-5 or 405) especially a Friday evening drive-time. Hope she drives up on a weekend? Ferry to Whidbey should be avoided at afternoon drive, ESPECIALLY Friday Night in the summer.... The Drive to the base is lovely! Navy On!

Comment by Love My USN Kid on August 23, 2016 at 3:22pm: Hi, everyone! I'm new to this group. My sailor daughter has just finished A-school in Pensacola and will be heading up to Whidbey from Oregon in a few days. I thought I should do a PCG (Permanent Change of Group), too.

Any tips or things I might share with her for her trip up?

Comment by Helomom on August 21, 2016 at 11:11pm: Anna- All things are good. Son's command tour is winding down. He should be at his new job by November. They didn't have to move but chose to take Navy housing so they had to move anyway. It was too good a deal to pass up. 18 years in the Navy and they are finally in Naval housing. LOL. Upside is the kids don't have to change schools at least for a couple of years.

Comment by Anna on August 21, 2016 at 11:00pm: Thank you Helomom!!!!! Hope all is well for your son and family!!!

Comment by Helomom on August 21, 2016 at 8:36pm: Welcome back, Anna!

Comment by Anna on August 21, 2016 at 6:16pm: Hello WA/OR NavyMoms!!! I am back!!! After my daughter left WA over 4 years ago I drifted away from this group, but now my son is being transferred to Whidbey after returning from his 5th deployment!! His wife and daughter are already there and set up in base housing, and we are coming for a visit mid-September!!!!! Looking forward to being back in communications with you wonderful ladies. My daughter Catherine was just remembering the time several NavyMoms took her and some fellow sailors to dinner at Olive Garden!!! I think it was in 09!!!