This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
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
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Latest Activity
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.)
N4M Merchandise
Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
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
Badge
CTI
Information
Lets get together CTI moms
Members: 265
Latest Activity: Jan 23, 2022
Discussion Forum
DLI grad gift for CTI
Started by Harrison. Last reply by StarryNights Dec 8, 2019. 1 Reply 0 Likes
life at DLI
Started by Willowwoo. Last reply by mkl7993 Dec 17, 2018. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Can they have a car
Started by Willowwoo. Last reply by Willowwoo Dec 17, 2018. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Comment Wall
Comment
-
Comment by I'm Laurie the Sailor's Mom! on June 30, 2012 at 8:00pm
-
My sailor had to move at least 3 times during the 1 3/4 years at DLI. So, yes to the laptop, no to the printer, and absolutely no time for the distraction of a TV. There is WiFi in some of the common areas, but after a few months my sailor got internet access in his room from the approved provider, American Warrior Networks.
-
Comment by IndyMom on June 30, 2012 at 7:29pm
-
Hi I am in need of some information. My son's PIR is 7/13/2012 and he is going to A School in Monteray. Does anyone know how the housing situation is on base? Will he have room for a desktop computer or would it be better to bring a laptop? He has a nice desktop, but we were thinking of buying him a laptop for graduation. What about printers and tv's? Help!
-
-
Proudmom did you daughter just graduate? My son Is CTI his PIR is 7/13 ?
-
Comment by Reid's Ma on June 27, 2012 at 10:32pm
-
proudmom, is your daughter right out of BC?
-
Comment by proudmom on June 27, 2012 at 9:58pm
-
My aughter will be at CTI in Monterey. She is so excited!
-
-
Hi, I posted this on a general CTI, CTM group... they directed me here. My son's a fleet returnee. He will live in an apt. off base (no room in the inn thing) So, does anyone have info about apartments @ monterey? New to the cite; not new to the Navy. Reid's ma
-
Comment by Lisa (A-Mac's mom) on June 24, 2012 at 3:39pm
-
Monica, My hubby spent tens years because the type of sub he was on was ALWAYS deployed. For the years 1996 and 1997, he was home about one month. He was looking at another med deployment in 1998. So he extended so he could go to shore duty instead. See, with nukes you'll never see shore duty unless you extend beyond your six years. So, yes, he was an instructor at Goose Creek. It was nice because we got to go back to Charleston for a second time and he was able to end his career on shore duty, which made interviews and the job hunt so much easier. He got out in 2002. The head hunters were lined up at the door 10 months before he got out. So he was able to be very selective about the job he wanted. That's a nice luxury that I never took for granted. Good luck to Jon. If he needs any help and/or advice, I'd be happy to put him in touch with my hubby. He's got quite a few connections, since he's been in the civilian power world for ten years now.
-
-
We just got back from Monterey my husband had checked in on his phone, my daughter was mad, she just tells people she is in California, she also asked us not to get one of the shirts saying her language just because..Yea they sell them on base, they also sell swords there and the kids arent allowed to have them either which I thought was kind of crazy.
-
Comment by KC'smom on June 22, 2012 at 8:54am
-
I grew up my whole life with my dad and never knew he was a CTI - hahahaha. And my mom worked for NSA (National Security Agency). I still don't know what she did. Those 2 NEVER talked about work. When I asked my dad what he does so I could tell my classmates, he said "tell them I push papers on a desk". So I honestly thought that was his key role in the Navy! hahahaa.
My son won't even speak to me in his new language and he is almost 100% fluent. Drives me crazy but I see he is just like my parents. I'm an R.N.- we love to sit around and tell stories of our patients to our families. Thank God I'm not a CTI!
-
-
It is funny- the contrafiction in "secrecy". My whole family has a DLI t-shirt or hoodie. My son bought them for us as Christmas gifts. His language is also stated on the shirts "we learn ______ so you don''t have to". He bought it right there on base. And, his class went on field trips to a restaraunt that serves and speaks his country's food and speaks the language. They drove 70 miles to get there. They also went to that culture's church to learn about it. Doesn't seem very secretive.
© 2025 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
You need to be a member of CTI to add comments!