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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 rlbly on September 28, 2011 at 10:21pm: Hip Hip Hooray!! I got 5 letters today for my SR. Sooooo very happy. One one month until PIR. Happy Day!! Hang in there everyone there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Comment by razen3 on September 26, 2011 at 7:42am: Hi Kelly, I text Kelly yesterday. She just got to VA the other day, Friday morning actually. She said she has PT this morning and after that she has no idea. I asked her to tell me what she does because I like to know what she is doing and she said okay. I don't know when she goes to a ship. She is 21 and her younger sister is 19, her name is Heather. I have a son named Michael, he is 24 and a graduate student at SIU. Heather goes to John A. Logan, she is going into nursing and might go into the Navy after she gets her nursing degree. My husband Rick works at Dick's and I work with Dr. Butt, he is a dentist. Have a good day. Marsha

Comment by K2011 on September 25, 2011 at 10:00pm: Too funny Razen3- My name is kelly too and my sister's name is Marsha! :) and we live so close to each other funny!! So happy your daughter is doing well! I do think my daughter is going to like it. She went in undes. We have several family members in the Navy(including VA) and they all tried to tell her to not go undes, but she is 19 and was just ready to GO! But I do have to say her eyes are wide open! So will Kelly be going to a ship soon? keep in touch!

Comment by razen3 on September 25, 2011 at 7:09pm: Hi K2011, My daughter is a Seabee, her name is Kelly. We are from Carbondale, so, not far from you at all. I hope your daughter likes it in the Navy. Kelly seems to like it quite well. She went in in Feb., she was home for two weeks in August. She is in VA now. Marsha

Comment by rlbly on September 25, 2011 at 2:24pm: Hopeing,Wishing, Praying for a phone call form my SR today. Especially after an emotional end to church today. They announced the route for which SGT. Sayne will be brought home this week. Thank You God for keeping my family safe this past week. Please keep my family and all my new navy friends family safe this week also in your name O Lord I ask. Amen.

Comment by K2011 on September 24, 2011 at 10:27pm: I live in Murphysboro,very close to Carbondale. She is undes so her a school is over next thursday and she comes home for 10 days then off to meet up with her ship! I don't know what we can put on here as far as her ship name? I am very nervous as Im sure every parent is for her 1st deployment. Its a destroyer so its smaller and about 250 sailors. Just like kindergarten when you hoped no picks on them and they make good friends fast!!:)

Comment by lauren on September 24, 2011 at 3:22pm: ok I'm a little slow but welcome to all the newbies....so excited to have you ...you will find the best moms here...and some of us crazy ones too....I'm really excited for all the new PIR......I have to laugh the my son PIR's i guess 7 yrs ago and I learned what PIR was 3 years ago....still makes me chuckle....this sight can bring you from the depths....so time to party

Comment by carols_kitchen on September 24, 2011 at 2:40pm: Hi K2011 . Where in southern IL are you? I'm, in Troy, close to lots of great coffee shops and restaurants in Fairview Heights. Let me know what we can do now that your sailor is ready for A school.

Comment by K2011 on September 24, 2011 at 2:09pm: Hello ladies!! My name is Kelly. Hope everyone's sailors are doing well!:) We are from southern IL. My daughter PIR on 9/9! Can't say enough how proud we are of her and the other young men and women! .

Comment by carols_kitchen on September 23, 2011 at 8:34pm: Anyone who wants to meet during the Molly's Adopt a Sailor quarter auction on Friday, Sept 30, O'Fallon, IL

http://www.navyformoms.com/events/molly-s-adopt-a-sailor-fun