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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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- 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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Location: Tinley Park
Members: 68
Latest Activity: Jul 27, 2022
Discussion Forum
Any Meet and Greet For Navy Moms In the Chicago area?
Started by Amorresperroz. Last reply by Amorresperroz Jul 25, 2016. 2 Replies 0 Likes
mailing our sailors a box...
Started by Theresa. Last reply by Pat L. in IL Aug 9, 2013. 3 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by MissMySailor on October 13, 2010 at 2:40pm
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Happy Birthday to the BEST Navy in the World!!!
Awesome cake Paula S!!!
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Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on October 13, 2010 at 1:31pm
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAVY! YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by Pat L. in IL on October 10, 2010 at 9:43pm
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Mary, Thanksgiving cards would be PERFECT!!!! We put at least a note in every box and include your email address. Sometimes we hear back and sometimes we don't but if an email address is in the box, it increases the chances.
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Mary, I want you to know that MAS has NEVER been about money or how much you spend. From Molly on down there have been times when a tight budget month has meant that a mom could only send letters. With 700+ moms it all evens out and we get the job done! Letters are as valuable to the soldiers/sailors as the boxes. As I have said before, the snacks get eaten, the soap gets used up but the letters are read over and over and over. A mom who can only send letters is just as VALUABLE to MAS as someone who sends boxes. Mary, I am sorry if I put too much emphasis on the boxes but being able to have the Pepsi grant pay for postage is a real boost to what we can do for our sons and daughters. Look forward to seeing you on the 23rd.
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Comment by becky m on October 9, 2010 at 9:53pm
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Had a good time fri nite wish everyone could have been there!! Thanks Pat for the info, I think you explaination was perfect I've got it now. I wont be able to go but anyone going I would like to meet you and give some stuff to send. Mary your close maybe if you go we can meet.
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Hi Mary, I'm not Sally but can explain:
1. Go to "Molly's Adopt A Sailor" and in the "Discussion Forum" read about our Oct. groups in October for November Delivery-2010.
2. Shop for things on their request list. (Dollar stores are great!!)
3. Bring your purchases to the packing party on Oct. 23.
4. We will pack boxes to be shipped to the Oct. groups. The advantage of attending a packing party is that the postage ($12.50 per box) will be paid by the Pepsi grant money we won. The rules from Pepsi are that postage is paid to the parties and not individuals.
5. Added bonus.....we get to meet each other in person, laugh, and swap stories about our much-loved sailors!!
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Comment by ChitownPat on October 8, 2010 at 4:45pm
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Sorry to miss the party but I'm attending my 35th college reunion! Have agreat time!!
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LOL Paula that is a good one what happen at Roundhead stays at Roundhead. LOL
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Michelle that is a great picture, what a handsome looking man. He takes after his mother.
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Diana I have been thinking of your daughter also, I did hear that security was being upgraded and they were talking about France. I talked to Stephen yesterday and they found a man with a bomb kit in the Naples train station, we used that station a lot when we were in Italy. There are thousands and thousands of people who use that train station everyday. Stephen is now carrying a gun 24/7 because of that. What a world we live in.
Girls have a great time!!!
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