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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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Location: Tinley Park
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Latest Activity: Jul 27, 2022

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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on February 25, 2012 at 12:00am: While most of you, or all of you probably, are Navy moms in Chicago with a sailor, I am a Navy mom with a sailor in Chicago. That changes March 1 when he moves to Little Creek. It's been a quick and Navy eventful three years! Have fun tomorrow!

Comment by DeniseR on February 24, 2012 at 2:11pm: Sorry I can't join you all!! It sounds like it will be a lot of fun.

Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on February 24, 2012 at 10:01am: Hi, I am going! Cannot wait to catch up with everyone. Coco I have not seen you in forever, glad you are going.

Comment by Coco on February 23, 2012 at 4:08pm: Count me in for Saturday!

Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on February 22, 2012 at 8:36pm: Hi, who is going on Sat and what time???

Comment by Pat L. in IL on February 22, 2012 at 7:48pm: Annie, What time Sat.?

Comment by Coco on February 20, 2012 at 10:20pm: Congrats Paula #2!

Yeah Mary! So glad to hear the Straits have come and gone!

My son just received the Blue Jacket Award. He got to have lunch with the Admiral and he says his picture is hanging up on base now. Hard to believe, 2 years ago he was in bootcamp and I was a basket case.

Ruth congrats on your son too! I am going to skip the divorced stories as my son just got married Janauary...so far so good. :)

Paula #1 - got room for me to car pool too?

Comment by Pat L. in IL on February 20, 2012 at 2:24pm: Debbie (Stephen's mom), We have mailed to land units in Djibouti, Qatar, Diego Garcia, Kuwait, Guam, and 12 land units in A-stan. Another thing to keep in mind is that they have to come to Molly's and request to be adopted. So spread the word!

Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on February 16, 2012 at 10:00pm: I am going on the 25th so count me in.

Oh boy lots to read back, how everyone is good and hope you are coming on the 25th so we can catch up.

I want to know why when we collect for the sailors it always go out to ships? Do we forget that we do have sailors on land and should not be forgotten. So there I am on a soap box so there!!! lol

Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on February 16, 2012 at 9:48pm: My son called yesterday to tell us that he's received his final checkout papers to leave Great Lakes. He's headed back to the Norfolk area to work at Little Creek at the end of the month. Let's hope he remembers how to be a GM after three years of being an instructor, some on the simulation range, some in the gym.

I'm in Texas till Easter except for a short visit to New Orleans and a cruise the middle of March.

Last comment for tonight--if your sons are single, go read some of the horror stories on my Navy Moms of Divorced Sailors. What messes these boys have gotten themselves into. (Not that this couldn't happen to our daughters, but the sons seem to have trouble thinking!)