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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.

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Latest Activity: Sep 8, 2021

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Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on April 2, 2012 at 9:38am: Hi HisMom & margeeim! It's funny HisMom, because we met at PF Chang's in Columbia the last time (and my daughter works there in the summer time, while home from college.) Hopefully, some of our other MD moms will check in on here soon so we can plan another get together.

Comment by HisMom on April 2, 2012 at 9:14am: I am up for lunch how about PF Changs in Columbia? I love the house Betsy! congrats.

Comment by margeeim on April 2, 2012 at 8:31am: I'm a Navy Mom newbie, so I would love to meet for a lunch. Typically where do you meet?

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on March 30, 2012 at 6:18pm: Hello Maryland ladies. How has everyone been? I think we are due for another Maryland mom lunch. What do you think?

Sheilamf, Wow, two in the military. That's awesome!

My Adam is doing very well in Bremerton, WA. He absolutely loves it there! He has become friends with the guys in his "shop" (which I saw on our tour of the carrier, and it is really an office with lots of computer screens, desks, and chairs lol). He spends a lot of his free time with them and he hangs out at their house on his off days. I met them also and they are pretty good guys. It's about 6 of them who are renting a house, so it's nice that Adam has somewhere to go when he wants to get off the ship. I know he will be really happy when he can finally get a barracks room. He says that he doesn't have any trouble sleeping in the rack because he is so exhausted by the time he gets to bed. We talk on FB just about every day, so I know that when he goes on his first month long cruise, it will be hard for me. :( I broke down last week and cried when I had to mail a package to him to an FPO address, so this new stage of his Navy life, is emotional for me too. He says that there is a good possibility that the ship may be going on deployment again and he is excited about the possibility, since he hasn't been yet, but the rest of the crew is not happy at all. His ship just got back from a 7 month deployment on March 2, so I can understand them not wanting to out again so soon.

We have finally bought a house, after over a year of looking. It's a great house in Marriottsville. If everything goes well, we will settle on April 27. Here is a picture of it.

Comment by Sheilamf #2 PIR10/10/14 Div 318 on March 7, 2012 at 11:11pm: Oh & a week ago, my other son finished his USMC School of Infantry. He graduated on Friday morning at Camp LeJeune & he shipped out on Friday night. Poor thing... he got shipped to Hawaii!!

Comment by Sheilamf #2 PIR10/10/14 Div 318 on March 7, 2012 at 11:09pm: Hi all, I've been popping in to this page & reading bits & pieces for a few months. My son just finished his A School in Groton, CT. He's home for 2 weeks before returning to Connecticut to his Sub assignment. I was just wondering if there are any other Sub Moms in MD. I'm bracing for his first deployment.

Comment by margeeim on March 7, 2012 at 8:53pm: Navy Moms---Anyone in this group with a son in SWCC training?

Comment by lori on March 5, 2012 at 9:28pm: Joanne- have a wonderful time in Key West with Kevin! You deserve it! Sleeping between missiles--- hmmm that wouldn't be my cup of tea that's for sure! I know on Paul's ships site there are moms and dads who are scheduled to go. It does sound like an awesome experience. That is great Deneen you got to go.

Comment by lori on March 5, 2012 at 7:46pm: NavyMomLinda- sounds like a good work out! When I asked my son how he folded his over 6 foot body in those narrow racks he said the same thing- you're so tired it doesn't matter! You just do! When I had gone on a cruise a few years ago we hit a tropical storm. I have never been so sick in all my life! I wanted to be thrown overboard just to make it go away. Nothing helped except a shot in my butt from the nurse. I was very happy to set my feet on the ground when we finally made land! And we were gone for 10 lonnnng days! But since Paul is going to be on a ship for the next 4 years it's something to consider.

Comment by lori on March 5, 2012 at 7:28pm: Cindy- that's right you did tell me Norfolk. I wish Paul had gotten East Coast. Would be a whole lot cheaper to go and visit him!

NavyMomLinda- I asked my son about the TC and he said - mom you wouldn't like it- lots of climbing and the racks aren't comfortable. The biggest draw back for me is I get sea sick! But those that have gone have come back saying it was awesome.