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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

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:

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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Hello Navy4Moms!  I hope you all have a wonderful 2012!  I hope your Sailors all pass Bootcamp/BattleStations with ease and I wish them all a safe deployment.  My Sailor has been in for a 1 1/2 year already!

 

Being in the military myself at one time... I know it can be challenging mentally and physically.  But hey, if they can endure pesky siblings.. parents yelling at them to do their homework, take out the garbage and clean their room.. bootcamp will be a vacation... right?  lol

 

Well.. I should get to the point of my email..   I have a hobby/business of machine Embroidery and sewing.  I'm on FB (Say what YOU want, custom embroidery) or my personal FB is Kelly Worstell Leake.  I have teamed up with Nicole of Pride Leather of Grand Rapids OH and River Bend Stables of Waterville Ohio.

This is what is going on.  Riverbend Stables has been using their horses for therapy.. they help kids with ADD, ADHD, and so on.. well they decided to take it to a new level.  They are now using their horses to give therapy for our soliders.  Whether is was WWII, Vietnam, Gulf or our new Iraq Freedom war it doesn't matter.  For those soliders that have PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) there is hope.  Riverbend stables wants to help our soldiers by using their horses for therapy. 

Nicole of PrideLeather http://www.prideleathercompany.com/services.html  has been hosting fund raisers to help raise money.  Nicole son Tony is in the Army.  He served in Iraq, and was discharged.. and decided to go back and recently left for a quick training and back to war.  I believe Nicole's blood is Red White and Blue.  Please check our her site.

I also am trying to help.  Say What YOU Want embroidery.  I will "Say what you want" in stitiches.  I can embroider on Teddy bears and mail them to your sailor.  Towels, Hoodies.. even Toilet paper! 

So if you send me your item... Hoodie for example I will embroider what you want on it and mail it back to you.  I am very reasonable.  It can say "Proud Parent of US Sailor"  I have anchors.. or other designs.  I will email you a computer picture of what it will look like before I embroider it.

 

I can also embroider on fleece blankets and mail them to your sailor. 

 

Finally.. check this out.  If you send me a picture of your sailor I can print it on fabric and incooporate it into a tote for you to show off to the world how proud you are!   A portion of these sales will go to Riverbend Stables. 

 

Okay.. so you heard my speach.. if you want to contact me on FB or: WonderWoman@French.Toast.Net  

 

Thank you for your time.. and thank you for having such wonderful, honorable children! :)

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