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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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Great Lakes A School Q&A

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The purpose of this group is to allow family of new sailors assigned to school at Training Support Center Great Lakes a chance to voice questions to a Student Division Commander

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 2332
Latest Activity: Mar 12

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Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on December 18, 2010 at 2:00pm: Kylesmomkaren, I feel the same way about other Sailors and their families. It is true. No other group of people can understand our lives. Maybe this is why the Navy started NavyForMoms and NavyDads. We are all so far apart in other states but I almost feel as though everyone here is next door.

Comment by lori on December 18, 2010 at 11:44am: Karen- what a great surprise for you!

Seems like they all respond in a different way to being home for the first time - my son did spend the day with us yesterday and he seemed fine. I was surprised because he hasn't been home for 9 months. He left after dinner and stayed at the fire station where he used to work. I expected that. He had a life before the Navy. And he knows we will always be there for them but as Sandy said they don't know if they can fit back into their old life. Some much time has passed since a lot of these sailors have been home. It may take some time to for them to feel comfortable.

Comment by Tiff'sMom (Sharon) on December 18, 2010 at 2:09am: My girl is home too.... :) :) her flight was delayed but after her sister getting lost coming/going to the airport to get her (I had to work) she made it home :) Then she went and put on pj bottoms and an old High School t-shirt, had no makeup on, was ready to go to bed (been up over 24 hours) and her friends showed up to go OUT!!! I was like, NOOOOO go to bed, but she went and so now I sit, waiting like a normal mom with a normal kid, NOT one that is grown up and in the Navy, hoping she is staying awake and having fun! :) But glad she has been going for so long and her comment to me....... "We did battlestations with less sleep, I can go out and do fine!" hahahaha She's 18, her first time to a 18/over club to dance, thank goodness they don't sell drinks to kids 18 and under! :)

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on December 18, 2010 at 12:39am: My sailor son already knows that some things will feel different when he returns home. I was asking him about this 4 weeks ago.

I have a friend who used to be in the Navy. She told me that when she returned home for the first time, she felt kind of strange too.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on December 18, 2010 at 12:35am: @ Dillons Mom and Jodia.

My son is not home either. He is spending the night at his friend's house. He had made these plans months ago. It is a friend from work and this friend took the day off to visit him. Tomorrow he is going to work with his friend and I will pick him up at 11:00.

Dillon's Mom. I think your son just wants to make the rounds with his friends to make sure everything is the same. Kind of get a footing on where he stands now that he has moved on with his life. I think your son realizes that he has changed since boot camp and Great Lakes. I might be worried that maybe he won't be able to relate to his friends anymore. (or his friends to him) Don't worry, he will deal with what ever happens fine. Just give him lots of hugs.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on December 17, 2010 at 10:05pm: Jane, I hope everything works out well for your Sailor. My son spent most of the day in the USO. He really likes going to the USO.

5 days will go by very fast. Before you know it, he will be home.

Comment by AndreaS61 on December 17, 2010 at 9:55pm: Yes, Stevie, Christmas miracles do happen. My daughter called today to say she'll be coming home tomorrow instead of the 22nd. Can't wait!

Comment by dj's mom on December 17, 2010 at 9:23pm: He's home. I don't kow that I have evr been happier. Other than when he was born. I only got him for a few minutes before his friends came and took him to celebrate but he's home and will be walking thru that door and it's amazing. I know you are all just as happy and no one else undestands. It's not like he's away at college like his friends. Never know when I will see him again. Other moms don't seem yo get that but you all do. Hug your sailors; I sure will be hugging mine.

Comment by lori on December 17, 2010 at 6:38pm: Jodia- my son has 2 nieces he's never seen either. He left 9 months ago but it seems like longer. Bless him he stayed and ate dinner now it's on to see his friends at the station...

BigDmom- United did not charge my son to change his flight either. And he said security was a breeze.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on December 17, 2010 at 6:22pm: I am happy too. I can't believe I my son will actually be home. He has not been home since June 15.