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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
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- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
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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all moms,wives,grandmas,fiances to get together and talk about the issues that you or your salior may be going through. We are here for one another.
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Latest Activity: Jul 24, 2015
Discussion Forum
LISTS OF GROUPS: PIR GROUPS, SHIP GROUPS, RATINGS GROUP, SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
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Nuke A School FAQ
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Comment by blessedsailorsmom ship12div 039 on August 23, 2010 at 10:00pm
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hi Bakersfield ! I am a DIP MOM, anyone else? leave date in Nov.
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Comment by mtnmom on August 21, 2010 at 6:01pm
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HI all;
Just had a phone from my son, he sounded tired, but we chatted for a long time. He gave some ideas for his next care box. He likes my "Make it Yourself" Trail mix. I send all the nuts, candy, dried fruit in separate bags (original packaging) and send a couple of large baggies and he mixes it himself. Score one for MOM!
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Sharon--
You are so welcome and it was really great to me you. See you all at the MnG on the 28th.
Gen
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Comment by BunkerQB on August 19, 2010 at 2:50am
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Don't forget to date and number your letters. You'll never know when he'll receive them - could be all at once.
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Comment by khoov00 (Kara) on August 19, 2010 at 2:16am
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Thanks for the welcome.
I guess he told my hubby that he won't get to call for another 3 weeks but there wasn't time to clarify if he meant he would or if that's the soonest that it may happen.
I'm sort of excited to try to remember how to write an actual letter. When I graduated from high school I left the next day and moved to Norway. My mom and I wrote letters to each other and she kept every one of them. Now I know how it feels to be on the other side of that equation. I can't wait to get the address to send him letters. I've been rallying the family trying to get letters out of them to send as well. He's been mentally preparing for this more than a year but I think getting letters will help keep his spirits up.
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khoov00--
So glad you know that he is now in Boot Camp. Start writing him a letter, tell him newsy stuff. You will be able to get his address from his recruiter by Friday, definitely by Monday. Enjoy your trip to the gym
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Hubby got the call just now, but he only had 45 seconds so I didn't get to talk to him. My other son and I had texted him while he was on the plane though so I guess it's ok (even though I sat home and waited for the call all day). I guess that's my welcome to being a Navy mom. At least now I can go to the gym tomorrow instead of waiting another day at home for his call.
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Welom khoov00--
Welcome to our group. Hope you get your call soon.
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My son, Brandon, left for bc yesterday. We are in Bakersfield. He's been in DEP for over a year but his actual leaving sort of caught me off guard. I'm waiting around today to hear from him even though I know it's going to be a super-short phone call.
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HI all;
I went to a Red Cross Blood Drive, along with other Blue Star Moms from the Fresno Chapter today. The Blood Dribe was started and organized by a Marine wife who is daughter-in-law of one of our chapter members. The young Marine is deployed in Afghanistan and is scheduled to rotate home in October. There were at least 35 donors there today
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