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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 sibehuskyfan PIR 9/26/2014 on June 25, 2014 at 8:35pm: I want to thank all of you Navy mom's for your wealth of experience and advice, I'm a 'newbie' my daughter ships out for BC on 7/28 and then on to Monterey. I am so much more at ease knowing what she'll be doing at both, and I really appreciate knowing I can come to this board for advice, venting, a shoulder, etc. :) NMH to all!

Comment by KC'smom on June 16, 2014 at 11:12pm: Go Dee's son!! ( Spencer). way to go!

Comment by BunkerQB on June 9, 2014 at 3:24am: Hawaii may have the exclusive to being THE primo military resort. California coast is spectacular any way you look at it. If time permits, you should go from San Francisco to Santa Barbara and go along Hwy 1 as much as you can. So much to see.

Comment by Reid's Ma on June 1, 2014 at 9:33pm: KC'smom, he's found places to shop to buy a bed and a few other things for his apt. But mostly studying 7 hrs a day, then required 18 extra a week. I just hoping he can have a day over the weekend so I can take him out for a good dinner! Any suggestions?

Comment by KC'smom on June 1, 2014 at 9:03pm: @Reid's mom- Jealous!! I am right down the road from Odenton b/c it is the very next town over from Ft. Meade. Maybe 2-3 miles from me. How does he like Maryland? If he's not familiar tell him he's only 3 hours from the beach and 1 1/2 hrs to Appalachian trail or the mountains of W. Va. You are never far from anything when you're in Maryland! hahhahh

Your story of the wedding sounds like my son's last summer. He married his AF bride after not having lived in the same state as her since DLI graduation. He literally flew out to Texas to marry her on a Friday and then returned to Georgia Sunday night. The real wedding was a month later when she finally got her orders for Georgia.

Comment by Reid's Ma on May 31, 2014 at 10:13pm: I think you are the mom that gave us ideas where to look for a place to live, KC'smom. He's in Odenton. We are hoping to come out over Father's Day to see the area. So far we got to see San Diego and all the Navy bases there and Monterey. Didn't get to Hawai'i when he was stationed at PH. Bummer

Comment by KC'smom on May 31, 2014 at 9:49pm: I'm a mile from FT Meade but my son is stationed in Georgia :-(

Comment by Reid's Ma on May 31, 2014 at 3:05pm: He is in Maryland and that should tell you his proficiency too! All of the Navy language in this area go to MD. I loved meeting AF, Marines, Coast Guard, Army at the graduation. Great people! We also got to go to a wedding that afternoon. A young sailor and his baby AF bride! They were split up until last month! Now they are "together at last"....

Comment by momkaw1513 on May 31, 2014 at 2:34pm: Oh that makes me feel better. I was really distressed about that. they are all my kids.

Comment by Reid's Ma on May 31, 2014 at 2:20pm: For the capable ones that did not pass the DPLT, they get to study for another 6 weeks and take it again. If they do not pass the second time, they are reassigned. Some people are just not good at taking tests. Good luck to yours. Mine left Monterey in Oct. and is still in training for his job. It goes on forever! BTW, they take proficiency test regularly on the job too.