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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.

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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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Comment by greenoak on January 1, 2012 at 2:22pm: We have already booked for June to go see our daughter just took her to the airport this morning, was great having her home!

Comment by lisab4 on December 31, 2011 at 11:53pm: My son goes back to Monterey tomorrow morning and already I'm looking for cheap flights to see him-I can't believe it!

Comment by Olivezick on December 31, 2011 at 3:30pm: Ohhh, my boy is flying back to Monterey as I type this...it was so wonderful to have him home with us for two weeks! Happy New Year, my CTI Moms friends and families!

Comment by KC'smom on December 25, 2011 at 10:43pm: Merry Christmas!!!!!

Comment by KC'smom on December 22, 2011 at 10:00am: Lisab4- thanks! i will!! Yes, everyone in the Navy over there had to watch it. hahahhaa. I am sooo loving my visit with my son. This is my first time really being with him since he left for boot camp 8 months ago. I think when he leaves this time I will do much better. I know that he is very happy in California.

Comment by lisab4 on December 21, 2011 at 9:45pm: KC's Mom-My son told me that he had seen your son's film and liked it! Tell him thanks for making it!

Comment by lisab4 on December 15, 2011 at 5:17pm: This beach webcam rocks!

Comment by KC'smom on December 15, 2011 at 4:10pm: @Laurie..... you get my mom of the year award!! Way to go sailor mom!!!!!! Love it.

Comment by I'm Laurie the Sailor's Mom! on December 15, 2011 at 3:32pm: During boot camp I watched these videos over and over looking for clues about my son's daily life in Great Lakes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdHt56NdERo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYREP-35Ylk&feature=related

And finally, BattleStations 21, basically the final test. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jibm7kyIGcM&feature=related After your child passes, you get your "I'm a Sailor call." I got my call almost two years ago, and this still brings tears to my eyes.

The videos in these links were so important for me because I could visualize just where my son was standing when he made his phone calls home (we got an 800 number for him to call home with, by the way; worked great), what his bunk looked like, his cubby for his possessions, the hallways he was walking, etc. etc. It comforted me to know where he was.

Then, when he got to Monterey, I put this link in my bookmark bar, and most days I would look at the streaming video of the ocean, right off the Naval Post-Graduate School grounds, which is just a couple of miles from the Presidio of Monterey and DLI.

http://www.123-cams.com/live-webcam.php?var=http://205.155.65.48/in...

Now, I've got a link to a webcam in Hawaii. . .

Comment by lisab4 on December 15, 2011 at 12:58am: I felt the same way as you when I had to say goodbye to my son. You just feel so lost-and the lack of contact during basic is tough! You have to be proud of the decision to do something difficult and different. It's OK to cry and miss him. Us Navymoms will always be there for you!