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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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ILLINOIS N4M

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Who wants to make an Illinois N4M site with me? Calling all Illinois Sailor families.

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Latest Activity: Apr 7, 2021

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Comment by Future Doc's mom 09 001 on June 28, 2012 at 8:23pm: Welcome rosorb! I hope you enjoy this site as much as I do. Everyone is very helpful. I have learned alot from everyone here.

Comment by medic mom on June 27, 2012 at 10:04pm: Welcome rosorb! This is a fun group of gals. Glad to have you here among us. Ask us anything and we will do our best to help. Thanx for joining us.

Comment by Pat L. in IL on June 27, 2012 at 8:42pm: Welcome rosorb, I see you are in Glen Ellyn and I am in Carol Stream. You will have to join us when the "Chicago Mom" get together!

Comment by rosorb on June 27, 2012 at 8:02pm: Thank you for the invitation. So happy for all of everyone's help and advice. I am totally new to all of this.

Comment by carols_kitchen on June 26, 2012 at 11:18am: Just got back from my nephew's wedding in Texas this weekend. It was good to see our family who left Illinois 10 years ago for work. However, just as good to get back home and sleep in our own bed. How a memory foam mattress changes how you sleep!

Comment by Future Doc's mom 09 001 on June 25, 2012 at 7:13pm: Congradulations to everyone on their sucess!!!!

Comment by SandySea on June 25, 2012 at 12:03am: Congratulations to the new sailors! Wasn't PIR just the best day ever? Good luck on this new phase of navy life.

Comment by medic mom on June 24, 2012 at 10:39pm: 2thldy he loved SA also. Don't be surprised if it takes up to a month for him to class up. They take the reservists and guys/gals that are returning from fleet and are reclassifying(?). It will probably be around the 12th and 11th week of classes that he will pick orders. It is usually after the EMT portion of classes are done when they do that. They are doing things a little different now then when my son was there. They were still building the clinical area when he was there. I believe that they do clinicals now EMT portion but don't quote me on it. Check out the group for the corpsmen in SA. They are really good about answering tons of questions. There is a gal on there that actually works there and she is amazing about getting answers as quick as she can. Tell him to study hard. Picking his orders does not mean that he will get the one he wants. Sometimes the Navy will put them where they need them. He might not like it and you might not like it but that's how they work. Sometimes the higher the grade the more likely they will get what they want but that doesn't always work out that way. Just tell him to study study study.

Comment by NM*Il on June 24, 2012 at 10:07pm: Hi everyone.Attended PIR 6/22 wow what an experience...Congrats to ALL who were there...It was great to see my son and we did get to see him off at the airport. And yes it is FREEZING in the PIR Hall so bring a sweater! And Yes if you are going tho the airport you will get a pass to see him off at the terminal..We did not get much time at Midway on Saturday My son arrived at the airport at 2 am and by the time they did a little business with the USO leader..we had a little time to spend with him before he had to check in and then go thru security and board his plane. His flight boarded at 4:40 a and left at 5:10 am. My son is at A school, in Pensacola. Anyone else have a sailor there already?

Comment by medic mom on June 24, 2012 at 4:49pm: Also know that when your sailor is getting ready to fly out you can request a gate pass from the airline that he/she is flying with. You both need to go to the airline counter and they will need to see your id but you can go beyond the gate with them and spend time with them until they leave. You can actually watch them board. I did that when my son left after PIR. It was great. Some additional time with him before he left. Congrats 2thldy! The next phase is beginning. Have fun. kb11175 PIR will be here before you know it and things will get easier. My son went to SA for awhile also. He is now at Camp Pendelton and loving it.