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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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Maryland Moms

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Group for moms who are in Maryland.

Members: 101
Latest Activity: Sep 8, 2021

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Comment by Linda on August 27, 2013 at 9:15pm: Welcome Lindsaysproudmom and guanggao! I hope you can come to the Navy moms lunch - we always have a good time. My son is an EM on a sub in WA. I did talk to him recently and he sounded good.

Joanne - I'm glad you got to see Kev. And that really stinks about the earrings - our tax dollars at work with USPS!

Betsy-Thanks for setting up the FB page. Now we can 'Like" comments :)

Comment by lori on August 27, 2013 at 4:34pm: Thanks Betsy. I'll go on it.

Colleen- I think it's looking like the end of Oct am I right ladies? It would be great to meet the new mom's!

Comment by carol8765 on August 27, 2013 at 4:31pm: Awesome!! I sent a request to join!

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on August 27, 2013 at 3:51pm: Ladies, I went ahead and created a Maryland Navy Moms group on FB since I wasn't able to find one. You can invite any other MD moms into it. Right now I have only included the members on here, whom I already have as friends on FB. Here is the link for those who are not friends of mine on FB yet. Please join us in the group and invite other MD Mom's that you think may also be interested in joining us. I have made this group a closed group, so members will have to be approved. We will be following OPSEC rules in this group, but since it is a closed group, we should feel comfortable posting.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/219511778224868/

Comment by ColleenE'smom on August 27, 2013 at 2:29pm: I would love to be a part of the MD get together! Please let me know when it is planned.

Comment by lori on August 26, 2013 at 7:14pm: Welcome back Joanne! Glad you spent time with Kev and he got to stay at the hotel with you.

That's a shame that the earrings never made it. Somewhere between NC and MD are your earrings.

I just got off the phone with Paul and he said he sat next to a guy on the plane on his way back to base to leave with his ship the Boxer. Made me wonder if this could have been Brandon's mom's boy?

Comment by Lindsaysproudmom(ship11Div345) on August 24, 2013 at 12:54am: lori- My daughter is supposed to be going to San Antonio for MA school but as of her last letter she hasn't heard anything yet, so I guess we'll see. I am so excited to see her in 3 weeks!! I watched part of the PIR today and it so amazing to watch.

Comment by Lindsaysproudmom(ship11Div345) on August 24, 2013 at 12:50am: End of Oct. sounds good to me, I would love to meet some of the MD moms! The 26th sounds fine with me, I'll keep checking to see what's decided. guanggao-my daughter also graduated from College Park!

Comment by lori on August 23, 2013 at 4:31pm: guanggao- my son is also an ET but he stayed at GL for A school [ not his favorite place to have been!] and then had C school in SD where he is stationed. He is my youngest. My oldest son lives in London. Is your youngest in a Gaithersburg HS?

Carol- I hope you stick around our group!

Deneen- how's the wedding plans going?

Comment by guanggao on August 23, 2013 at 12:20am: lori, glad found this group. my son joined the Navy this April after graduated from College Park. He started A school on June 1 this year and now in Goose Creek, SC as an ET. he is my older son and my younger one is a high school senior. i am looking forward to seeing you and other Navy m9m fr9m M D.