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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.

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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 Lisa (A-Mac's mom) on September 6, 2011 at 3:08pm: Tammy, is your son at recruit training right now? If so, mine is, too. Grad date 10-21.

Comment by Tammy (Gar's mom) on September 6, 2011 at 11:56am: So I'm thinking that a nice digital camera might be a great graduation gift before he leaves for Monterrey in October? Is there anything else he will need? Im going to try to catch him at the airport and get his cell phone, computer and Kindle to him before he leaves Chicago (if he has room for them) Other family members are asking if there are other things they can get him for graduation. Any ideas?

Comment by KC'smom on September 5, 2011 at 11:43am: My son went out and bought his very first digital camera so that he could get some good quality pictures of Big Sur. (rather than sending them from his cell phone). He went again yesterday- He pays $1.25 for public transportation to the Mountain and then he has to walk several miles for the sight seeing. He sent me the most amazing photos. Surfers, horseback riders, mountains. Man, what a beautiful area.

Comment by Olivezick on September 5, 2011 at 1:40am: Lisa, welcome to the Navy!

Comment by Lisa (A-Mac's mom) on September 5, 2011 at 12:07am: Thanks for the answers, ladies. So, basically like everything else, it's totally up in the air. :)

Comment by Smom on September 4, 2011 at 11:36pm: My son didn't find out his language until right before PIR and then it changed within a few days of arriving at DLI. He doesn't class up for a few more weeks. There was an opening in his first choice so his language may change yet again. He probably wont know for sure until class actually starts.

Comment by Olivezick on September 4, 2011 at 10:19pm: Lisa--my son, and the two other folks in his division also going to DLI, didn't get to talk with the CTI fellow at BC about the language choices until 2 days before PIR. (AND it was the day after Battle Stations, during the hour his division was allowed to call home to say "I am a sailor!"--needless to say, his phone call home was about 5 minutes!). So, there you go, your son could find out his language anywhere between the 4th and last week of boot camp!

Comment by KC'smom on September 4, 2011 at 9:34pm: So, my "KC" had off Fri and Mon. So, he could have had a 4 day holiday weekend... but! He had to be home Saturday at 7am to scrub floors for 1 hour!! haha. So, although he had traveled to San Fransisco with some fellow students, he had to leave at 5am Sat. morning to be back in time to scrub floors. Poor guy.

Lisa- my son just got to DLI on July 30th so you would think this should still be fresh on my mind, but i can't say for sure- I would say after maybe 4 weeks at boot camp???

Comment by Lisa (A-Mac's mom) on September 4, 2011 at 9:18pm: Got my son's form letter today. I feel so much better having an address to start sending these letters to that are stacking up on my desk. Do you guys know in approximately what week they find out their language?