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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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AECF - FCs and ETs

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For families that have a loved one serving the Navy as an FC or an ET. This is the place to share and learn more about their jobs and schools. For subs - look for the SECF group.

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Comment by R'sproudmom on June 11, 2012 at 6:32pm: Chris you made me laugh. I've been there myself. My Sailor left GL's after 11 months. Congrats for his orders in Va. We live in Va. and this Navy mom would have loved for R to be on the east coast. Six months of C school will pass quickly in SD though and who knows where he will end up after that.

Comment by Chris, Forever Ray's Proud Mom on June 11, 2012 at 6:06pm: I was so excited to hear the news, that I forgot the details!! I will find out. lol

Comment by Chris, Forever Ray's Proud Mom on June 11, 2012 at 4:33pm: My ET son just received orders for Norfolk! He PIR's 7/22/11 and completed A school in April. I'll see him next week!!

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on June 9, 2012 at 7:18pm: navybluemom, what ship is your son on? My son says his ship is getting ready for INSERV too.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on June 9, 2012 at 7:15pm: Hockeymom, Wow!! That will be a challenge for your son and his wife. Where there is a will, there's a way.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on June 9, 2012 at 7:11pm: Well, my son has been living on his ship since May 20th. He is trying to get his Sea Legs. It is kind of difficult to get his Sea Legs because his ship has only taken 4 day excursions. So when he just about gets over his sea sickness, he is back in port.

He has not had to Crank due to staffing issues. I don't want to jinks him by saying too much, LoL.

Comment by Anti M on June 9, 2012 at 6:59pm: She will be on surface ships, and he's subs? That can be tricky. They'l need to put in for the big ports which have both. The Navy's idea of spouse co-location can be less than ideal. My husband and I were both ETs, we saw each other a total or 28 days when we first married. I had to choose becoming a dependent over re-enlisting so we could be together. That's why he served 20 years and I only did nine years.

Comment by HockeyMom on June 9, 2012 at 4:53pm: My son is in secf, his wife is in bootcamp for aecf, my son is stationed in wa on the uss jimmy carter, trying to keep informed about my daughter in laws job to be she grads on 7/20/12

Comment by Anti M on June 8, 2012 at 11:07am: In our ET shop, shore duty, we had to provide a petty officer to go work with security for six months as base police. We were overmanned by one, and the junior tech who had the most common NEC (specialty) was sent over on TAD orders. Way out of the job description, hmmm?

Comment by Vickyrun on June 8, 2012 at 10:32am: The miltary is not like a civilian job, you can't say that is not in my job description. You do what you are told to do, and you do not question authority. Period.