This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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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Comment by Kaye S. on November 13, 2012 at 2:49am
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Well, Bless your heart! Aren't you just the sweetest fhing!
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NOW HEAR THIS!
INDIANAPOLIS NAVY MOMS DINNER IS CHANGING PORTS!
This month we're meeting at
Monday, November 19
Social time: 5:30pm / Dinner: 6:00pm
808 South Meridian Street
Indianapolis 46225 (MAP)
(Restaurant) 317-631-4041This is a casual time held monthly for chatting & support. ANYONE who wishes to may attend! Please RSVP (click on this event in the column at far right), so I know who to expect. Thanks! Kaye S.
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Comment by williams85 on November 8, 2012 at 9:31pm
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Hello all my son arrived at RTC on tuesday. So bittersweet. Trying to keep in touch with everyone going through the same thing I am and learning all I can to get through this.
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Comment by Sunshine Sandy on November 8, 2012 at 7:35pm
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My son leaves for boot camp February 28, trying to think of ideas of what to get him for Christmas, coming up empy. Any suggestions anyone?
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Comment by marriedahoosier on November 1, 2012 at 9:35pm
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Thank you all for welcoming me. I am proud to be a Hoosier and proud to be my Navy son's mom. I think this group and the Facebook group will help me through thick and thin. Again, thank you.
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Comment by Pat on October 30, 2012 at 8:36pm
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Read and learn all that you can, as knowledge gives you peace (at least it helped me). Start learning as much as you can about boot camp and then start learning about his rate (what his job in the Navy will be). Ask questions if you can't find an answer or don't know where to look. Welcome to the rollar coaster ride that is the life of a Navy Mom.
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Comment by aprilfaery on October 30, 2012 at 8:35pm
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My Son is just now getting ready to join. However his younger brother is a Marine. I can tell you the fears and worries are the same. Just remember the men and women at RTC are there to mold your son into the best Sailor he can be. Wear your pride, stay strong for him, and know that this journey is a roller coaster of emotions and you get better at handling them. Promise!
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New to Group and Navy mom life. My son just signed and took the oath on Friday. He let me know the day before that he was joining the Navy....no prior notice. So, what do I do as a mother who loves her son and loves her country and respects the service men and women of this great nation? We went down to the Army/Navy Surplus store on 21st and bought Navy shirts for the whole family to wear during his oath and a "My son is in the Navy" bumper sticker I slapped on the ole family wagon. I support him 100%...but I am scared as heck and worried about him. He goes to boot camp in May. Any advice to calm a neophyte mom's fears?
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Comment by NavyWifeForLife on October 18, 2012 at 2:30pm
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im from southern indiana and my husband graduates boot camp on november ninth, any one else from the southern part or have a sailor with the same graduation date as me?
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Comment by Reid's Ma on October 15, 2012 at 10:51am
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can't come again! preping to leave for FL. Hope you have a nice visit w/some Indiana families.
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