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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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Latest Activity: Feb 18

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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on September 26, 2011 at 8:42am: As your sons and daughters report to their ships, you will find they have a FRG (family resource group) or more recently referred to as FSG (Family Support Group) in the old days, these used to be the Navy Wives Club but the Navy has a new look today...it's not all wives sitting at home waiting to hear from the ships! They do alot to support the ships while they are deployed but they do social outings, dinners, etc. for the families that are back at home.

Our ship will be out for the holidays so they are working on a pillowcase banner to hang in the passageways, so we had a little fun working on our pillowcase this weekend...

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on September 26, 2011 at 8:35am: Vickyrun, homemade cookies. Yum!! You are making me hungry.

My son loves my Lemon-bars. However, they need refrigeration. Do you have a recipe for Lemon-cookies that would travel well?

Comment by Vickyrun on September 25, 2011 at 10:24pm: How about shipping them homemade goodies? I'm worried aobut it spoiling before they get it. She likes my pumpkin bread. I used to send it to her in GL but that only took 2 days. And she wants Vienna bars for Christmas. But I don't know? They have jelly in them.

Comment by ProudGMBarb on September 25, 2011 at 10:12pm: mattsmom and hrmqueenmel...Hello and Welcome! Our sailor is also ET and will be graduating "A" school this coming week. Yippee!! Then we play the waiting game to see where he will go for "C" school.

Hope to hear more from both of you!

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on September 25, 2011 at 9:41pm: Hi mattsmom and hrmqueenmel, I want to welcome the two of you to the group.

My son is an FC and he is in (C)school in Dam Neck. he loves it there. If you have any questions. Feel free to ask.

Comment by Anti M on September 25, 2011 at 9:40pm: Oh, and I love Point Loma Park.

Comment by Anti M on September 25, 2011 at 9:39pm: He can bring you on base as guests, and will be able to show you around the non-classified areas. He can check with security or public relations for advice on what he can show you. As for things to do, I enjoyed the Harbor Cruise, although we didn't do a dinner one, but I hear it is terrific. He can check at MWR for military rate tickets. The Midway is docked as a museum now, so that may be of interest, as well as the ships of the Maritime Museum docked downtown. There's the usual stuff, such as the zoo or wild animal park (you can rent a wheelchair), Balboa Park, Old Town, Seaworld, and much more. Lots to do there.

Comment by hrmqueenmel (Ship 07/Div 246) on September 25, 2011 at 9:36pm: Hi Mattsmom, and welcome! I'm pretty new here too, so I don't post very often. My son's still in A school at GL...he'll be an FC. But I did want to welcome you and say that I hope your father gets the opportunity for a tour of the base. That would be awesome!

Comment by mattsmom/kts424 on September 25, 2011 at 8:25pm: Hello Everyone....I'm new to this group and was very happy to find you all. Hope all your sailors are doing well. Im an ET mom. My son is in San Diego for 3 months for C school. We were hoping to visit at Thanksgining and I was wondering if we would be able to visit the base. My 85 year old dad (WWII vet) is coming along and is hoping for a tour. Do you know if this would be possible. Also any advise about where to stay and what to do while visiting our son? Thanks a bunch.

Comment by Anti M on September 23, 2011 at 11:08am: Nayvblu, it all depends on what will be done with the ship. Most are sent to the US to decommission, which means they need a crew to sail her back. Sometimes they don't make it back to the states at all if they are sold to a foreign navy. New orders do not mean stateside orders, to save money, as much of the crew as possible will be transferred to other ships or billets in Japan. Things change, but that's what hubby and I have seen in the past.

So, variables. But the deployment should be a lot of fun for him. Tell him to apply for his passport ASAP so he can go on side trips on liberty if the occasion arises.