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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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Indiana Moms

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For Navy families who live in Indiana.

Admin: Kaye S.

Members: 317
Latest Activity: Jan 16, 2024

FACEBOOK PAGE: Navy Parents of Indiana

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Comment by Kaye S. on January 19, 2010 at 10:43pm: Oh, how awful for you both! My son's div was always in trouble too and he only got to make one phone call home about 5 weeks in -- and it was twenty minutes of him crying. I stayed strong while we talked, but then I went to pieces when we hung up.

But, he made it through and then got through Nuke power school, and finally got through sub qualification. So, don't view this as a sign of things to come. Bootcamp is just 24x7 pushing on these folks -- a phone call is one of the very few times they can let the tension out. Hugs, k.

Comment by Michelle:Proud Wife of a Sailor! on January 19, 2010 at 8:19pm: Hey we lived by triple X while we were in school:)
The first phone call was rough...i put my dear husband thru trauma before I answered: I have not let my phone leave my side since he left, even been quite obsessed. Anyhow, all the other divisions on his ship callled mon-thurs last week. Our div is ALWAYS in trouble, I assumed that they wouldnt get to call. So, on Sat AM, I was upstairs packing for me and son and left my phone downstairs. :( He tried to call for FIFTEEN minutes before I got to the phone. I felt/still feel TERRIBLE! We got to talk for 15 minutes but he couldnt stop crying... I am pretty sure he thought we weren't going to answer:( He did get to hear his son laugh for him though! Anyhow, I think that I feel WORSE since the call. Hopefully he is better.
I say I only have one responsibilty since he left and that is to answer the phone.. I almost blew it!

Comment by Kaye S. on January 19, 2010 at 8:03pm: Hi, Michelle! That first phone call is wonderful... or perhaps horrible (if your guy was crying and homesick like mine was). Hope you all are coping ok with Dad away. Keep crossing off those days on the calendar! Hugs, k.

Comment by Michelle:Proud Wife of a Sailor! on January 19, 2010 at 7:23pm: Hey All! We are an indiana family as well. We are in Boilermaker country:) My husband is currently in BC and PIR 2/19. We finally just got to talk to him this past weekend.

I love the video of the surprise! Had me in tears!

Comment by Kaye S. on January 19, 2010 at 5:29pm: Jim, get your comfy sneakers on, cuz our next gathering involves some walking. Also, start curling those dumbells while you watch TV, cuz you might be carrying some shopping bags. (:-o Hugs! k.

Comment by Kaye S. on January 19, 2010 at 5:26pm: I hope all of you will welcome new members, Amcart55 and GM-Mom48, who are the 200th and 201st members of Indiana Moms! That's alot of growth since July, 2008, when this group was created. YAY US!!! ;-D

Comment by Kaye S. on January 17, 2010 at 9:50pm: There are 14 folks attending the Westies dinner tomorrow! (Including a handsome sailor, if you want hugs!) Please respond if you haven't already, so we'll have a chair for you. We chat in the waiting area beginning at 5:30pm and are seated at 6:00. If you're running a little late, it's ok! Wear whatever (just don't come naked). Hugs! k.

Comment by Kaye S. on January 16, 2010 at 9:44pm: Oh, too far away to visit often :-( But, tell your daughter that Daddy's right near the beach and -- if you can visit him there when the weather gets warm -- when you go, then you can spend the day there. Perhaps Dad can send her a (dried) starfish or sand dollar? I know it doesn't make up for having him gone, but could be something to hold on to until you're all together again (plus it'll make for a neat "memory ornament" for the Christmas tree when she's older.

And by the way, congratulations to you and your sailor! I hope you were as thrilled to see your guy walk into that hall as I was to see mine. Did you feel you were going to "bust your buttons?!" Hugs, k.

Comment by Kaye S. on January 16, 2010 at 9:34pm: Heather, where is he for A-school?

Comment by Kaye S. on January 14, 2010 at 3:23pm: Oh, Donnita, you have me in tears -- happy ones! To find your sweet boy sitting next to you suddenly, what a HUGE gift! Can there be a better surprise? Can't wait to see ALL of you on Monday... Hugs, k.