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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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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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 JayDee659 on June 29, 2018 at 2:40pm

Barbara, that first night is a shocker for them. The call is scripted and my daughter told me they are monitored during the call to keep it short and on point. It will get better! My daughter would tell me something that was upsetting her and I'd stew and worry until her next call. When I'd ask, she would laugh and say "that was last week  I'm over it, move on" . Try not to dwell and worry. Just be supportive and listen. We can't fix things any more. 

Comment by Barbara on June 29, 2018 at 2:24pm

Hi all!  My daughter just arrived at BC on Wednesday, June 27th.  I hated the first call.... she sounded so frustrated, tired and aggravated. Had her period too....ugh. I would have rather gotten a text.  Hopefully she got some sleep last night and is holding up okay.  This is harder than I thought, especially after that horrible call.  Sigh.....

Comment by RaksAndRoll on June 27, 2018 at 12:41pm

My daughter is so frustrated.  She's been so anxious to get her lower braces off.  For the 2nd time, the removal was postponed.  Her orthodontist wants another 2 weeks on her lower teeth.  She is so anxious to get this ball rolling.  She is working her day job, training at the gym and pool, and  studying and taking practice exams for the ASVAB.  She is focused on the prize!  I guess these delays are teaching her a lesson in patience.  I, on the other hand, am glad she's still local for a while and I can at least text her when I want to!

Comment by Anna on June 23, 2018 at 10:59pm

Wow, I've been away from here and for a few days and am so happy to see you Moms all helping each other out!!!  For our new moms dealing with this new separation and the comparison to leaving for college - we all understand the differences!!  My oldest son went to college and several states away.  As my first one to leave the nest I was sad to leave him behind on that first day we moved him in to the dorm.  But before I knew it, he was coming home for Christmas, coming home for Spring break, coming home at the end of that first year and being home for the whole summer.  Not so with the next three who went in the military.  There are years that go by and we don't get to spend the holidays together! Once they go, they don't get to come back home very often. Our first daughter was so far away that even if she could take leave she couldn't afford to come home from WA!!!  

And to answer your question JayDee, I don't think anyone gets leave between bootcamp and A school.  Momma Navy really wants to keep the "training" and fear in them as they go off to school.  Many kids kind of screw up a bit in A school and giving them time to go home right out of boot can give them some bad opportunities too soon!!!  

I really like how you ladies hold each other up!!  So many of my friends just didn't understand how I felt when my son and then my daughter joined the military.  

bbcregular,

I'm so glad to hear you are enjoying the RV life!!!  Hubby and I are starting to feel a little "caged in", just thinking of where we'd be now if we didn't have to stay here in OK!!!!  But we are doing what we have to do and I wouldn't change a thing - I just have that itch to get back out there!!!  Some day I hope we end up being in the same place at the same time!!!!  We can swap stories around the campfire!!!!

We have several new moms that just joined this group!!!  I have to get welcome messages to each one, but for now - it's time for bed!!!!! Have a great weekend everyone!!!!

Comment by JayDee659 on June 23, 2018 at 8:01am

Yea, weekend! 

Comment by txnavymom0917 on June 22, 2018 at 8:46pm

hope everyone has a great weekend! 

Comment by JayDee659 on June 21, 2018 at 4:14pm

Our girls are doing amazing things that I can't even imagine. 

Comment by MalsMom on June 21, 2018 at 3:29pm

I love this group! It always makes me feel better reading the comments from everyone!  Miss my girl every day but I know she made the right decision.

Comment by JayDee659 on June 21, 2018 at 1:36pm

bbcregular, it changes everything when they get married, doesn't it?  When my daughter said she was going to come home for Father's Day I was selfishly delighted that her husband had duty and couldn't come.  Not that I don't like him, we do, but I just wanted her to myself (okay, I was going to share with my husband).  But alas her chit was denied so maybe another time.

Comment by bbcregular on June 21, 2018 at 1:12pm
I have not written in a while but have been reading all the comments. Hello everyone and welcome new Moms.

We have had a guest from Malawi for the last 5 weeks. Explaining America and our military has been interesting. I have enjoyed the questions and amazement. Watching someone see this country for the first time puts a new perspective on everything. All the way to I do not have to be home to wash the dishes. :)

So happy to see the comments from new Moms since I feel like I am still new and it has been 3 years for me also. I sent an anniversary greeting to daughter and she said she also gets her good conduct medal. I thought she was kidding but the medal is still awarded after 3 years of good conduct. She said it was becoming rare because not everyone can make it for 3 years without counseling. Who knew?

I am experiencing a new first for me. My daughter is coming home next week. Yea!...but...not to my house. She married a sailor in December and will be going to him in Georgia...as it should be but I can’t say she’s coming “home” anymore. Now I say she is visiting the states on her leave. They will be coming to visit us for a weekend and seeing her friends. I have to admit that the Navy has made a woman out of my little girl.

We are still planning on selling our house as soon as we can stay home long enough to spruce it up to put on the market. All of our travels for the last three years has shown as neglect to the house and especially the landscaping. Every time we go home we are preparing for visitors or our next trip. Love the RV life and want to travel as long as our health allows it.
 

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