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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!

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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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Moms of Daughters 2

A place to come to for support, guidance, to ask questions and share stories. We are all proud of our Navy Daughters.

Members: 1351
Latest Activity: Mar 18

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Care packages for new graduates (a school)

Started by Cali's mama. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Mar 19, 2021. 3 Replies

Looking for current information for my daughter on what's allowed for care packages..idk if it matters that she is in the great lakes location or not..ship 7 div 136...lonely mom with confused tears lol

Bootcamp arrival Sept 8, 2020??

Started by Stephanie0725. Last reply by Shoosh Oct 5, 2020. 4 Replies

Hello! Got the call that my daughter made it to bootcamp quarantine last night 09/08/2020.  Looking for other moms out there on the same timeline. Sadie is my baby, only daughter, and only child in the military.  I think I am going to need lots of…Continue

PIR DATE: December 13, 2019

Started by Donita. Last reply by Donita Nov 5, 2019. 5 Replies

Anyone else’s recruit have a PIR date ofDecember 13, 2019?Continue

Arrived at boot camp October 2nd

Started by Donita. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Nov 5, 2019. 26 Replies

Hey everyone- my daughter left for boot camp October 2nd. I missed a call from her last Friday telling me that her graduation is December 13th. I feel like the worst mom in the world for missing her call. Really didn’t expect her to call so soon but…Continue

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Comment by Colleen in PA on March 26, 2010 at 8:02pm
Hey Anna, no, you didn't mention "moms with more than one" but thank you for asking. I will join that group too. I don't always get on the computer. Since my son left, I've been on a lot more following the Dep and PIR group. Now since he graduated, I've been discovering new groups like this wonderful one!
Comment by Anna on March 26, 2010 at 4:51pm
NavyMom,
Missed your post earlier!! Last several years in OH my hubby's had to shovel the sidewalk before we head off to church in our Easter outfits!!! Jenn texted me that she had a blizzard last night!!! Luckily not everything sticks!!

Thanks Blondie!!!
Comment by Anna on March 26, 2010 at 4:43pm
Wade,
I understand how you feel about loosing work on the one hand and then having to pay for the medical tests on the other. I recently went through that with a suspicious mamogram. Watch out that they don't overcharge you because that happened to me!! I still pray everything goes well for you and the results turn out favorable for you!!!

BB,
I didn't realize you were in NC also!!! I'm in Raleigh - but it's a temporary stay. I moved down here from OH. It has gotten cool here in the last few hours!!

Well now for some good news. First of all - Sailor Son and wife got final approval on their house they are buying in NV. So new baby will have her own room ready by the time she gets here!!! And Jenn - my college girl- - - she got accepted in the Navy's Officer program and will get to go to flight school after she finishes college and OCS!!!! She has to go to MEPS for a physical yet (which we are hoping there are no surprises there) and then she will get her final processes done and be sworn in!! Then I will have 3 serving!! I have to go buy a new blue star flag!!!! So after her horrible day yesterday today was a great day.

Colleen,
Did I mention to you another group you might be interested in? It's Moms With More Than One. It's a pretty quiet group sometimes but maybe with more members there will be moms chatting!!!

Fluer de lis,
Enjoy that beautiful spring weather. Send some just a bit further north, please!!!
Comment by BB on March 26, 2010 at 3:24pm
Blondie, we are used to wearing shorts one day and coats the next! And here lately with my LO, that's almost the way it has been! One day ok, the next she's crying!! I feel like I'm on the biggest roller coaster of my life. When her mood is up, mine is up and boy, when hers is down, I'm all to pieces. Today is a good day, who knows what tonight will bring.
Comment by BB on March 26, 2010 at 3:07pm
59 here in good old North Carolina.....the temp has dropped since this morning, with rain approaching.
Comment by Fleur de lis Mom on March 26, 2010 at 3:03pm
Just to make some of you jealous - the weather is perfect in Louisiana. Sunny (not a cloud in the sky) and 63 degrees, but calling for showers tonight.
Comment by Colleen in PA on March 26, 2010 at 1:34pm
Blondie, 2 at once isn't too hard right now. When Nate first went to basic, it was hard. As for my daughter, she's been away at college for almost 4 years and it's been a more gradual separation with her. We talk several times a week usually. I do miss my kids but this is the way it's supposed to be, them moving on. I'm just glad they will have a great career ahead of them. They can go as far as they want. I do have my dog, Sophie with me when my hubby is at work!
Comment by Colleen in PA on March 26, 2010 at 1:29pm
Anna, Lindsay is a midshipman at PS. She rec'd an ROTC scholarship for the four years. She'll be comissioned in May and will be stationed at Norfolk on a destroyer. She really wanted to be on one of those as she was on the "USS The Sullivans" during part of her freshman "cruise" called CORTRAMID.

Pat, my son, Nathan is in Goose Creek. He'll start A school in a couple weeks, training to be a NUKE EM. He'll stay there for Power school also. He will be there at least a year, each school is 6 mos. Then he has a 3rd 6 mo. school there or in NY. He is glad to be our of BC! I just got a box ready to mail his cell phone and some Easter goodies down to him.
Comment by Anna on March 25, 2010 at 8:58pm
Pat,
That is so funny - but I'm like you!! I haven't worn heels in so long that I would probably either break my ankle or my neck if I tried to wear them now!! Have a wonderful time at the wedding!!

Diania,
I'm sorry to hear about your daughter's trouble. You are right - bc is no time to have to deal with a problem like that!!

I just got a heartbreaking phone call from my college daughter. She is having some problems - mostly because too many people are dumping too many things on her shoulders. She is trying to get money collected from all these people for girl scout cookies that her troop sold and it's the adults that seem to think she can just drop everything and run all over the greater Akron area to collect money from them. And the leader of her troop isn't taking charge and getting this done - she is leaving it all up to a 19 year old. Makes me really angry. Her OChem class is kicking her butt and then several people at her job want her to cover their hours so she is working over 8 hours a day on both Friday and Saturday and 4 hours on Sunday. She's pulling two shifts for other people. So now she is freaking out about how she is going to get an entire chapter of OChem studied this weekend. I had to very lovingly tell her she has to learn how to say NO to people but she just feels like she has to be the one to make things right for everyone else.
I told her to put me on speaker phone and set her phone down and then cross her arms and squeeze. I told her she just gave herself a hug from me and she just cried. Long distance mothering is tough!!!
Comment by Anna on March 25, 2010 at 8:04pm
Wade,
Still sending lots of prayers (and hugs) your way. I wish I had a magic pill for you especially to get good results from your tests and to take all the worry off your mind!! Of course it would probably be such a large pill you'd choke on it and then that would just be one more thing for you to worry about!!!! Ok - maybe not a good idea!!!

Pat,
I'm sure your job has you bouncing all over - up one day down the next!! But your industry is a good marker as to how our economy is doing so I hope it continues staying steadily busy!!! I know that is not what you want to hear!!!
SORRY!!!!

Blondie,
Jenn told me it is snowing today!! She's tired of nice weather one day and yucky the next.
 

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