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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

Events

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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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Location: Tinley Park
Members: 68
Latest Activity: Jul 27, 2022

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Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on August 3, 2010 at 7:01pm: LOL you are sooo crazy Paula!!!! We will have fun that is for sure.

Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on August 2, 2010 at 5:19pm: Mary that is so wonderful news about your son, way to go! I know you are smiling from ear to ear.

Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on August 2, 2010 at 5:18pm: Yum, I love both and I like cookies too. LOL

So do I have this right we can go to Diana's around 2 and we are eating around 5?????

I have to go back to work today, YUK!!! Summer went by way too fast.

Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on July 29, 2010 at 12:25pm: He knows the protocol and knew it wasn't right, but he also knows mistakes can be made. During Vietnam, the Army contacted my sister-in-law's grandparents in Illinois of her husband's death. They called her in Hawaii. My husband is the one in Hawaii who opened the door and told the soldiers they'd already gotten the word.

Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on July 29, 2010 at 12:07pm: Got a call from a Navy dad and good friend yesterday. He got an email at 4am through Navy for Dads from a mom expressing her condolences to him about the loss of one of his sons in the Navy. He ended up making frantic calls to Hawaii and Guam. She mistakenly sent it to the wrong dad. For hours, he went through hell before he finally talked to both of them. He's still shook up today by it. He happens to be a Nuke dad.

Comment by Coco on July 28, 2010 at 10:52am: Congrats Mary & Dan! Try the sailor rescue list group and see if anyone is out his way and can help...but then again...he Nuke which means a decent salary so maybe he should enjoy a hotel room before his next adventure begins. Congrats!!!

White Sox game was crazy! They won 11 - 0 and had three home runs in just the first two innings. Looks like I just made plans for tonight and then back to Sox game on Friday...so maybe thursday I will stay home...lol...not complaining just truley amazed that I have a such a social life lately.

Comment by ChitownPat on July 27, 2010 at 9:24pm: Mary-Congrats to your son. It is quite an accomplishment!

Comment by Coco on July 27, 2010 at 4:10pm: But of course we can drink now...lol...actually I think tonight is it for me. Oh how I am adjusting to life without kids. I started on July 11 with my neighbors and have somehow been out all but one night since the 11th between friends, my b-day, son's graduation, family and then back to friends...crazy...I have not been out this much since before my first son was born. Tonight is White Sox game and then I really neeeedddd to collapse and get back in the gym! Enjoy your drink Paula and save room for more on the 14th.

Comment by Coco on July 25, 2010 at 9:36am: Sally if you are looking for IL packing parties for Molly's group I would post on the group and ask around. I believe the fund raiser in Sept is in Florida.