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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:
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.
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Iowa Navy Moms
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Anyone from Iowa who has a loved one in the Navy
Members: 50
Latest Activity: Feb 25, 2021
Discussion Forum
October happenings in the Quad-Cities
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Comment by MommyLisa Ship 02 Div 951 on August 7, 2013 at 7:15am
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Hi everyone I am from the Quad Cities and my daughter will be leaving for boot camp September 3. So proud of her but nervous and of course going to miss her since this is my only daughter.
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Comment by mama bear on August 4, 2013 at 9:02pm
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Hi everyone,
just wanted to let you all know that my daughter has just left for her second deployment to who knows where. Please keep her and all Seabee's, and all who are out there doing the job to keep us safe here in the United States. Hope all is well with all of you and good night.
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Comment by AubsMom on July 18, 2013 at 4:12am
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Please be thinking of my Seabee daughter's group in the desert. They just got a few months extension and sent to a very scary base. I'm extremely concerned and nervous about this new location. Not only are they in a dangerous place they will not have computer/phone for the next few months. Seeing FB action and hearing from her often at the other 2 bases she's been at already in this deployment made a difference. This is also hard in that she had been skyping with her son almost daily (he just turned 1 a couple of weeks ago).
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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on July 16, 2013 at 9:41am
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BridgetTheBrit, welcome! And come join us on facebook, too! Look for Iowa Moms/Wives....
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Comment by BridgetTheBrit (Ship 11/Div 340) on July 15, 2013 at 2:06pm
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Hello! I live in New Hartford, IA - right by Cedar Falls/Waterloo. My son just left for basic last week & I am slowly finding my way around this site & stumbled on this Iowa group - yay!!! My husband and I are gearing up for RAGBRAI (& you guys will know what that means), & I am hoping that the box & the for, letter arrive before we leave so I can mail letters and all that good stuff! Anyway, I am looking forward to getting to know the Iowa Moms and learning more about the Navy experience!
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Hi Everyone, haven't been on for along time, been dealing with alot of health issues and family problems. Anyway I just wanted to let everyone know that my Seabee daughter married the man of her dreams, another Seabee in April of 2013. They have an off base apartment, just adopted a puppy, and they both made Petty Officer. I am so Proud of them both! Hope all your loved ones are doing great, so until next time have a great Sunday!
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Comment by Smoke2010 (Ship 13 Div 269) on June 2, 2013 at 1:02pm
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My son left for boot camp on May 23rd. His PIR is 07/19/2013. Very proud of him for joining.
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Hi, Everybody, sorry I haven't been on for along time but my sister has been very ill, and my brother just passed away last Thursday of stage 4 cancer. Anyway I have a question, my daughter thinks she needs to see a specialist for a medical problem that the Navy knew about before she enlisted. The situation may have changed but she can't get anyone to listen to her, is there a proper channel that she should be trying go through. Any suggestions would maybe help ease my mind and her's. Hope all is well with all your families!
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Congratulations to all whose sailor advanced today. You have the right to be proud. To you moms whose sailors didn't make it, my thoughts, prayers, and hugs go out to you. You have a right to be proud, too, but it's hard to know your kid is hurting today.
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Just wanted to make sure that you know about the Molly's Adopt a Sailor packing party next sunday in Davenport. I'd love it if you'd come! Bring some priority boxes with you if you can. I don't want to run out!
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