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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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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For Navy Mom's in Massachusetts

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Latest Activity: Jan 14

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Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on February 14, 2011 at 11:31am: Good Morning, Moms! If you want to see some pictures from Saturday, check out the Feb. 2011 packing party above. Also, I posted some pictures from our event on the comment wall in Molly's Adopt a Sailor.

We did 26 packages and one large mailing envelope for more valentine's drawings.

Thanks again to everyone!!

Comment by Tamijzr07 on February 13, 2011 at 9:58am: Good morning! I feel lucky to have met so many great ladies. We got so much done and had some laughs too. Donna, thank you for putting all of this together. You really motivate this chapter to keep going. All of the info and time you put in is appreciated. See you all next time! :)

Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on February 12, 2011 at 9:52pm: Our packing party today is done. It was a HUGE success. Pictures will follow probably tomorrow since both Tami and I are exhausted

A big thank you to all the moms who volunteered today and got everything packed and ready to go. Thank you also to the girl scouts who stayed an wrote cards and letter and drew some pretty amazing pics. We appreciate your help! Thank you again.

Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on February 12, 2011 at 9:07am: Jennifer,

Thank you for the offer. I was concerned about the snack part for the packages, but with the GS cookies that took care of that. If you see any beef jerky or any individually packed snack items, but don't go crazy looking for them. How about toothbrushes and/or toothpaste? All these snacks -- they better be brushing and flossing! LOL See you soon.

Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on February 11, 2011 at 2:21pm: Hi MA Moms. Do I have news for you!!!!

We are going to have 62 boxes of GS cookies to pack with our other things tomorrow!! Thank you, Tami's daughter!! Can you imagine those sailors and marines when they see the GS cookies!! Bet they are gone in an hour, maybe less! LOL

Also, the Lowell Sun (local paper) is promising a photographer and possibly a reporter to come to our packing party.

Now don't freak out anyone & please don't cancel, we need bodies there too don't forget. You are all Navy Moms & you all know what we are doing and why. You all have enough passion to light a bonfire. And you can tell your own story if need be, so The Sun will get a great story however they choose to do it.

Please do your best to remember to bring a picture of your sailor. After all isn't that what got us all involved in this project? I have no idea how anything will go, but we all will be fine. I told the paper that the event is 2:30p BUT don't forget it is really 1:30p. That gives us time to unload our items, get organized & hopefully sit down and talk for a minute or 2.

I hope you all are as excited as Tami and I are. Everyone has worked so hard for this party and tomorrow we get to be together and have fun putting it all together. Then we'll sit and just revel in what was accomplished.

Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on February 10, 2011 at 2:07pm: Priscilla, I never thought of scissors. Yes, we will need some to cut the packing tape and put our boxes together. If you'd like to bring a snack that would be very nice, I'm sure we'll work up an appetite between working, writing and laughing (a lot I hope). One thing I found we didn't have left over from before were large, like freezer size or 1 gal. size plastic zip-locks. Also maybe a box of sandwich size also. But only if you are heading out. Tami and I haven't had our talk today, but I can't think of anything else. I'll leave a comment or Tami will if we think of anything else while we're going over "stuff". Only the rest of today and tomorrow and it will be time for our party!!!!!

I'm so excited it is hard to contain myself ... See you Sat.

Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on February 9, 2011 at 7:03pm: Hi Pauline! I had family who lived in Fairhaven years and years ago (they were my great-aunts and uncles who have long since died). Small world though isn't it? But then we keep discovering connections however small to one another. Like Lowell, I used to work there!

Think about it, a packing party in May on the coast sounds wonderful to me. And by then the weather will be lovely & everyone will be smiling again.

I am so sorry your sailor has been gone so long. I hope you get to see him very, very soon and perhaps a phone call will come your way before then too. We are here for you anytime. We've all had that horrible ache that actually hurts. Here's a big Navy Mom hug just for you ... hope you can feel it.

Donna

Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on February 9, 2011 at 4:56pm: Got her Diane! Thanks for noticing.

Comment by Tamijzr07 on February 9, 2011 at 3:16pm: Hi Pricilla, Ill message you:)

Comment by diane {Shawns mom} on February 9, 2011 at 2:41pm

Comment by Priscilla on January 25, 2011 at 10:03am: My daughter and I are happily planning on attending the packing party. Would someone please forward us the location. Thank you!