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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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Mass Communication Specialist

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For those with Sailors who are MC's in "A" school or assigned a duty station.

Members: 106
Latest Activity: Oct 9, 2019

http://www.dinfos.osd.mil/index.asp

Mass Communication Specialists are concerned with public affairs and visual communication. Their role is to present the US Navy to Naval and civilian audiences, through a variety of media. MCs write and produce both print and broadcast journalism, including news and feature stories for military and civilian newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations. They record still and video photography of military operations, exercises, and other Navy events.

Great link from a guy who describes "A" School at FT Meade:
http://civiliantosailor.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html

More info for those of you who have sailors getting ready to head to FT Meade:
Go to the link http://www.dinfos.osd.mil/index.asp for DINFOS. There is an ACADEMICS Tab>Course Offerings. A list of classes appears for 2010. Above the list a paragraph with a link to ATRRS. Click on the link. You may be asked to authenticate the certificate. It is safe to do so. After following those directions a page will appear with drop down boxes. Fill in the boxes for Fiscal YR (20XX, the YR searching for), School Code (212), State (MD)>search courses. You can then select each course and see the details for when those classes start & end.

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Comment by heyma313 on October 30, 2014 at 3:28pm: NavyMom93, wow, good to see another SE Michigan resident, I'm in Oak Park

Comment by NavyMom93 on October 28, 2014 at 5:34pm: Heyma313, me, too! I'm right outside of Port Huron.

Comment by heyma313 on October 28, 2014 at 4:21pm: @NavyMom93, thanks for the information. What part of Michigan are you from? Its good to hear from another Michigander on N4M. I'm in SE MI.

Comment by NavyMom93 on October 27, 2014 at 9:38pm: chowdercall911, I can't say if it's always O'Hare. It was O'Hare for my son when he graduated in April.

Comment by NavyMom93 on October 27, 2014 at 5:28pm: heyma313, we had to drive back to Michigan, too! Yes, that would have been an insanely long wait till he got on the plane! He talked to his fellow MC's and then dozed before getting on the plane. It worked out well. :)

Comment by heyma313 on October 27, 2014 at 5:06pm: Thanks ladies that helps!! @NavyMom93, I think that will be the way we'll go, meet him at the airport, hand off his cell phone and laptop, say our I love yous and goodbyes, and then head back to the hotel. I'm not sure my husband and I could make it through staying until his flight left. We have a five hour drive back to MI that day.

Comment by NavyMom93 on October 27, 2014 at 4:28pm: heyma313, my son had liberty until around 7:30 Friday evening, then got to O'Hare at about 2:30 A.M. I brought him his phone and his tablet and his laptop, and we said our good-byes. His plane left for Baltimore at 9:00 A.M. Saturday morning, and he was getting settled in by the afternoon.

Comment by MommaJ on October 27, 2014 at 3:54pm: heyma313: When the PIR is on a Friday, they get leave the rest of that morning, and day, until 7-9p. Then they leave at the crack of dawn Saturday morning and wait until whenever their flight is. You can give them their phone, computer, and a few personal items at the airport. They cannot have anything when they return to the base Friday night. Hope that helps!! I'm sure some of the veteran mom's will be able to fill in any blanks.

Comment by heyma313 on October 27, 2014 at 11:31am: Good morning MC moms and loved ones. My son's PIR is 11/21/14 and I was wondering if anyone here knows how PIR liberty goes for sailors heading to FT Meade? Has it been your experiences that they leave the next day or have there been any grad 'n' gos? I'm sure its different for everyone, but I'd like to hear how other experineces went.

Thanks

Comment by gracie21 on October 23, 2014 at 9:37am: I would not count on speaking with him everyday. Their days are really long. My sons girlfriend broke up with him at the beginning of this journey. Decided military wasn't for her. Even though he was devastated at the start, he tells me it is actually for the best. Trying to communicate with her and meet her expectations for attention and contact were impossible causing him added stress that he didn't need. We spoke to our son on Sundays and were able to skype most Sundays. Anything more than that was asking too much. You need to learn to wean yourself from thinking that he can communicate with your daily because it will not be possible once he is in the fleet. You will learn to appreciate contact when it comes. Sometimes you have to wait quite awhile.