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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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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 Chocoholic (ship 02, div 924) on September 4, 2013 at 10:51am: Pat L, you rock. I've responded to your message. And thank you, everyone. My coworkers are understanding, but they aren't really getting how freaked out I am. The daughter isn't a fresh-out-of-high-school teenager; she's 27, and she's been around the world. But she's still my baby, and I still worry. Maybe having her on a ship in the middle of the ocean will be the safest place for her!

Comment by Pat L. in IL on September 4, 2013 at 10:47am: Chocoholic, I am about 40 minutes away from Great Lakes. Going to send you a friend request and my phone number. If need be, I can go up there and pick her up and either deliver her to her next stop or get her to a safe train station.

Comment by OklahomaMama on September 4, 2013 at 10:44am: I can only imagine how shaken up you are. No matter how old they get they are still our kids, and we moms will always worry.

Comment by Chocoholic (ship 02, div 924) on September 4, 2013 at 10:40am: Okay, I really am shaken up. "Let God take *care* of her." I can't even type.

Comment by Chocoholic (ship 02, div 924) on September 4, 2013 at 10:40am: Ack--typo there. "Let God take of her", I mean.

Comment by Chocoholic (ship 02, div 924) on September 4, 2013 at 10:39am: @OklahomaMama, I thank you very much for your prayers. I know I have to release her to God and let her take of her, but I can't help it--despite what my head knows, my heart can't stop crying for her. Right now, her plan is to take the train to another city in the area later this week to visit another set of friends, and then she's flying back out to her ship next week. She probably will want to go herself, but I need to talk to the hubby and see if he wants to intervene. He may not feel comfortable letting her go by herself--despite the fact that she did exactly what she should have done.

Comment by OklahomaMama on September 4, 2013 at 10:00am: Omg Chocoholic! Thank God she is alright and safe on the base!! She will be in my prayers. I've had stalkers and it is frightening. Are you going to go get her so she doesn't have to travel back alone? Stay strong. I'm sorry you are having to deal with this.

Comment by Chocoholic (ship 02, div 924) on September 4, 2013 at 9:45am: Ladies, I'm mildly freaking out here. My daughter is on leave before she goes on deployment, so she decided to go up to the base in Chicago to visit friends. She had to take the bus, and the while taking trains and busses from O'Hare to base she realized she had a stalker! She called 911 and I know she made it to base safely, but I am freaking out a bit. I'm proud of her for trusting her instincts and making the call, but it frustrates me so much to realize that she is dealing with this.

Comment by Sanmor on September 4, 2013 at 12:48am: Beth, it is not an easy journey as a mom, but it is also a wonderful journey. I will be thinking of you a week from today for sure :-)

Comment by BethD on September 4, 2013 at 12:30am: My son leaves a week from today for bootcamp. I go from terrified one minute to so proud the next. It's been so hard and he hasn't left yet!!