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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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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
Started by Ruth, Gun's Mom. Last reply by Dawn Sep 16, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Nuke A School FAQ
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Comment by mama bear on July 2, 2012 at 6:46am
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i need some extra prayers for my daughter who is in Afghanistan on her 1st deployment and for myself to help relieve the night mares I am having, I have had them for almost a month now and almost every night but since I was informed over the weekend that she ran over with her truck part of a hidden bomb. It damage her truck, but she is alive, thank God. Don't really know the extend of injuries,. She was able to contact me herself but knowing my daughter she doesn't always tell me everything and because I can't see her I don't know if she is leaving out any parts. She said something about a brain scan and that she is feeling alot of aftershocks. Then all of sudden she disapear and haven't heard from since. It was unsual that she didn't tell me good bye or she loved me because that has always been the way we signed off since she joined the Navy, so I need some extra prayers sent my way. I need sleep with out nightmares which have got more intense since this news. Thank you Mama Bear
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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on June 9, 2012 at 8:12pm
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Just returned from Iowa American Legion Auxiliary junior camp near Dayton. While there, the 67 girls and staff, plus some guests yesterday, signed five posters to remind our troops that they aren't forgotten. One went to Cuba, one went to RTC at Great Lakes to an instructor, and three are going to Afghanistan.
The Davenport packing party will be in JULY! Stay tuned for date, but requested items so far are ground coffee, gummy bears, and Under Armor compression shorts. More info to follow, but it's a special adoption by Molly's Adopt a Sailor. I can tell you that there are 100-150 military in the group, 50 of them sailors.
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Comment by Dawn on May 4, 2012 at 10:21pm
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Wow. It is amazing once you go on these sites how you find people close to you
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Comment by AubsMom on May 4, 2012 at 9:50pm
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Hi Dawn, I don't have anyone in FLR, but I do have a Navy Seabee daughter and my son is in Air Force tech school. I live close to you in Coralville.
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They get moved more when they are single?
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Great!
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Kathy is your daughter SNA?
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The skate park is at a wonderful park by the Mississippi. The air show is just north of I-80, a direct drive from one to the other.
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Welcome, Dawn! I drive by Tiffin when I go to see my mom in Grinnell.
Mary, the air show is in the Quad-cities, actually at the airport in Davenport just off I-80. I'll post more info when I know something, but you can google it now and get some now. It's really fun! Do post it on facebook.
Just got back from Norfolk. I took my sailor son's daughters (7&10) to see their daddy before he deploys and to meet his special someone. When we got there last week, he was leaving next week, then June. By Friday afternoon he was leaving THIS week, so I'm glad we went when we did. Monday he had to have all his gear on base to be "palletized," a new Navy term for me. We had a great time--beach three times despite crummy weather, toured the USS Wisconsin, had lunch with some of my former students that are in the Navy, and Sunday dinner with a couple (retired chaplain) who open their home to sailors. Met them three years ago--wonderful people.
Early next week, my sailor will be playing in the sand. :(
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Just became Iowa Navy Mom. My son starts OCS Sunday
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