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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.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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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Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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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.

Members: 402
Latest Activity: Apr 7, 2021

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Comment by Brenda(MomofTravis) on September 21, 2010 at 9:20pm: Hi, just wanted to introduce myself. We're proud Navy parents in Illinois near St. Louis with a son deployed on the USS Kearsarge.

Comment by Pat L. in IL on September 21, 2010 at 8:13pm: BIG NEWS!!! Today "Molly's Adopt A Sailor" was confirmed as a $50,000 WINNER in the Pepsi refresh everything challenge!!! For everyone who voted and helped us a big N4M THANK YOU!!!!!!

Comment by Dodie on September 19, 2010 at 2:34pm: Hello all in Illinois:) My son will be in Great Lakes for BC 10/5. It's been a long wait. He's been a Depper since Jan 2010 for the Nuke program. It's pretty bittersweet...I'm ready for him to go because he's been getting on my last nerve, but I'm very proud of his decision to serve.

Comment by abc815 on September 19, 2010 at 1:26pm: hi ladies and happy sunday! i was just curious, does anyone here have a sailor who is stationed overseas? just wonderin :) thanks and enjoy the last bit of your weekend :)

Comment by ChitownPat on September 19, 2010 at 9:01am: abc815-True love prevails! Glad that your family is coming around...one less stressor for you.

Comment by Pat L. in IL on September 19, 2010 at 6:44am: abc815, Glad to hear that you are making progress with your family. I live in the same town as Linda! Reserve me a spot at the N4M table!!!!!!

Comment by abc815 on September 19, 2010 at 12:57am: hi everyone! i've been busy with work lately. well, it seems my family is having a change of heart because they see me truly "fighting" for this relationship. normally, i'm the type if they don't like my boyfriend, i kind of toss my hands up and say "oh well!" but of course, i'm a little older and wiser now (at 30) and want them to be a part of my new journey. and to linda k- carol stream is not too far from me! haha. i live in inverness right now, bordering hoffman estates. are you planning on having a big wedding? mine will be very very small. my family isn't too keen on the idea of a courthouse marriage although that is the most comfortable option for my sailor and i (time-wise and financially)...so we are looking at something that's one step above that, but not a full-blown wedding. since i'll be moving to tokyo with no plans of working anytime soon, i need to save every dollar i got!

and how funny that would be! if i could afford it, i WOULD reserve a table for the illinois N4M!!! awesome idea! i'll see what i can do. :)

Comment by carols_kitchen on September 18, 2010 at 8:54pm: Glad to see everyone chatting. Tomorrow Karen C & I will be working a car show. we sell the drinks--Pepsi of course! lol. Wish us luck so we can ship lots of packages to our troops overseas.

Comment by carols_kitchen on September 18, 2010 at 8:53pm: Welcome to Mary Ann Harcharik Neuman !

Comment by T-Lynn on September 18, 2010 at 8:13pm: And what do you do at a Baseball Game? Drink Beer Note: All of these fabulous photos have been taken by Ricky Flores. A shipmate of my son's and the ship's photorapher. This young man is a natural talent with a camera/ I am so grateful for allthe pictures he shares.