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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

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 "A" school Sailors

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Our sailors are now in "A" school - let's share!!

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Latest Activity: Dec 3, 2022

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Comment by John and Yvonne on December 13, 2011 at 7:47pm: Anyone that has a son or daughter in the Norfolk/Dam Neck/Virginia Beach area during the Christmas holiday who can't go home, we would love to invite them to our home for Christmas dinner. Just let us know.

John & Yvonne Wagner

Comment by wlbradford (Rota Spain) on December 13, 2011 at 4:34pm: 9 more days for us...our daughter chose to come home for just a week so that she'd have more time to spend with us before going to her first post!!

Comment by trisha'sA1Son on December 11, 2011 at 6:04pm: Thanks marine navy mom. Yes I mean housing for our family while we visit our son! Excited! Thanks for the info.

Comment by Raberta on December 11, 2011 at 3:45pm: The Navy does have housing resources for sailors who will not be going home during the two week break. And there is always a USO Division available for the personnel. You can join the Sailors Rescue site. I noticed that some families open their homes to sailors for the holidays.

Comment by trisha'sA1Son on December 11, 2011 at 1:43pm: Hello, I am slowly adjusting to Navy life with my son with thankfulness and pride! Does anyone have any suggestions for lodging in Pensacola in December after Christmas?

Comment by Raberta on December 9, 2011 at 11:22pm: Glad some of you have heard (whistling). If he doesn't make it home for the holidays, I'll be okay. This is the military, they have their own time and reasons for what is done. At least that's what I'll keep telling myself....

Comment by tina41 on December 8, 2011 at 8:59pm: hello!!

my son also comes home on the 22nd!!! the only thing about it getting here fast is that it will go by faster!!

Comment by wlbradford (Rota Spain) on December 8, 2011 at 3:24pm: I'm right there with you...my sailor comes home on the 22nd and I CAN'T WAIT!!! :)

Comment by Raberta on December 8, 2011 at 11:28am: He was worried, but I guess things are going okay. I haven't heard that he's not coming home, so that is a good thing.