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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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GM Moms

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Group for Moms of Gunners Mates in A School or on Duty

Members: 212
Latest Activity: Feb 14, 2020

I thought it would be great to get a group together of people who have a Gunners Mate in training or one on duty. I hope we can all give each other a little insight as to what is in store for our Navy Men and Women!!

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Comment by Freier4 on September 4, 2011 at 7:45pm: Congratulations to your son Wenikimc! My son graduated exactly a year ago and stayed in GL for GM School! He's now assigned to a "boat" in San Diego; encourage him to do his best to pick where he would like to be stationed and if he wants a ship and why kind of ship. My son graduated as "Top Gun" and made the wall, his overall score was a tie for the all-time high. Enjoy PIR, it is such a proud moment!

Comment by wenikimc (2/945) on September 1, 2011 at 9:20pm: My son will graduation from PIR on 9/23 and will be staying for GM A School in Great Lakes. I can't wait to see him at graduation!

Comment by PAM (GM MOM) on August 24, 2011 at 6:47pm: I am keeping an eye on hurricane irene, my son is at Norfork for VLS school. I talked to him today and he said they had a meeting about evac and told everyone where they were to go when and if it is called. They have also cancelled classes for Fri. My son said they asked for # of landlines for relatives, my son had to tell them none we all just do cell phones. My son said he would keep in touch with me daily so I know what is going on with him. I knew when he went in the Navy I would worry about him but, I never thought it would be because of a hurricane.

Comment by kim ann on August 15, 2011 at 8:18pm: CONGRATS navygal88!! My two went thru VLS C school in 3 months almost 3 yrs ago. Much depends, lots of variants...like anything and everything else! I know you'll do great. The hardest is over! So, sounds like you'll do your training east coast?

Comment by PAM (GM MOM) on August 15, 2011 at 7:44pm: navygal, congrats on your soon to be grad from A school. My son is there now for VLS I can't really tell you how long the school is because my son was to be there until Oct but, they rushed them through and he will be done Sept 16. There was only 3 in his class to start with and then they had a girl join them after be set back due ti illness, so there is 4 now. Funny thing my son just called, he said the school is 4 months.

Comment by navygal88 on August 15, 2011 at 7:11pm: Hey everyone! I'm just about to graduate GM A School. Can anyone tell me how long the VLS C School is?

Comment by navygal88 on August 15, 2011 at 6:13pm: Anyone got a Sailor at C School in Dam Neck?

Comment by jvptxmom on August 15, 2011 at 2:37pm: Hi everyone! My son will PIR this coming Friday (8/19). He is staying in GL for GM A-school!

I'm a N4M addict! LOL! I love all the help I've gotten through this site. I don't know how I would have made it through bc without this site! I will probably be on this page a lot after my son gets going in A-school! Looking forward to getting to know everyone! :)

Comment by PAM (GM MOM) on August 14, 2011 at 11:35pm: Talked to my son this weekend and he will be finishing his C school about a month early and will be home in Sep for 2 weeks, in time for our town's Pumkin Fest. I can't wait to see him.

Comment by beatrizm (Ship04 Div192) on August 4, 2011 at 2:00pm: evansgirl, my daughter is a GM on the USS Tortuga, stationed in Sasebo, Japan. Boot camp is tough, depending on the officer in charge of your boyfriend's ship, he may only get to write once a week. They can always use encouragement, because it's a tough 8 weeks, with no sympathy from their superiors and no slacking off. I was amazed at the changes in my daughter. Each week's letter showed just how quickly she was maturing. So I encourage you to write positive letters, send funny cards, anything small (they don't have much storage room) that will let him know you're thinking about him and you're pulling for him.

As for A school, my daughter didn't get to come home until she was done with A school and got her orders to go to Japan. Her fiance, who is an FC, and therefore his A school is longer, was able to go home at Christmas, but stayed at GL until he finished, then got orders to report to VA for C School. At that point, he was able to go home again for two weeks.

The one thing you can count on is that you won't have much notice in advance of what they're doing or where they're going. It's the Navy way, so you just have to adapt.

Good luck to you and to him!