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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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DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP!

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Comment by FireKitty on September 19, 2011 at 10:31pm: Dec6 - The address is: USS Abraham Lincoln, CVN 72, FPO AP 96612-2872... be sure to add your sailor's box #.

Comment by Dec6 on September 19, 2011 at 8:51pm: does any one know where I can get the correct address for USS abraham Lincoln? I think I may have the last line wrong. I don't know if its FPO AP or if is FFO AP. Any help would be appreciated...

Comment by Dec6 on September 19, 2011 at 7:47pm: Marianne, I have looked at his carriers group, not much activity there. But thank you anyway. I did post in another group though.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on September 19, 2011 at 6:42am: Dec6 - Welcome! Wish I had an answer for you, but I don't. Hopefully someone else here has an answer. There is also an undesignated group - maybe there's a Mom of someone working towards a DC in the group. Have you posed the same question to your carrier group?

Comment by Dec6 on September 18, 2011 at 10:31pm: new to DC, my son is undesignated and on an aircraft carrier now, he told me he is in DC. He is VERY excited about this. It is up his alley, as he does want to be a Fireman and Emergency management when he gets out of Navy. I was wondering how does it work if he did not go to A-school for DC. Can anyone explain? Love my sailor but he is not a good job at expalining this one to me...so I turn to Navy for Moms.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on September 16, 2011 at 7:09am: matehualamaria - You should come join us on the USS Essex site. My daughter Katie is a DC as well. When did she arrive in Sasebo?

Comment by matehualamaria on September 16, 2011 at 7:06am: my daughter is stationed in Japan on the USS Essex she dosent really like it there shes call home a lot and we try to skype as much as possible while she is in-port since she is on a forward deployed ship so that dosent make it better. if any of yall have any type of question for me about anything just ask me and if i dnt know the answer i will ask my daughter and i will get u a response =)

Comment by matehualamaria on September 16, 2011 at 6:56am: My daughter started cranking on the 22 in Laundry on the Essex too she dosent really mind it she just sais its the ppl that she cant work with she cant wait till she gets back to her shop she works in ER09 she sais she loves the ppl in her shop but that 3 of them are about to leave in the next week so now her and some other new ppl have to take over the shop shes nervous abut going back to the division but cant wait eather

Comment by slapout52 on September 8, 2011 at 6:22pm: Well, come to think of it, we don't really want fires.

Comment by slapout52 on September 8, 2011 at 6:21pm: Yup, y'all are right--he pulled KP! LOL Fortunately, he worked in a restaurant in college. But he'd much rather be fighting fires.