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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.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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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MINNESOTA NAVY FAMILY

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Comment by carol on January 7, 2012 at 1:07pm: Congratulations, Mrs. Andy. Sounds like everything went well and made wonderful memories :)

Comment by JJ on January 6, 2012 at 12:13am: Try calling the Minnesota State Offices in Anoka 612-341-7184 otherwise try the state offices in St. Paul. I am sure that they can steer you in the right direction. You might want to try the VA if all else fails. Good Luck.

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on January 6, 2012 at 12:00am: Is there a Navy chaplain in Minneapolis that performs wedding ceremonies?

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on December 31, 2011 at 1:59am: We are having a fondue with about 13 people -- steak, shrimp, scallops, and chicken and lots of wine. We usually manage to stay up to see the ball drop in New York and then call it a night.

Comment by carol on December 30, 2011 at 11:33pm: Isn't it great that the ball drops in other places just like in New York????

Steak and lobster sound good. Enjoy!

Comment by JJ on December 30, 2011 at 11:32pm: Hubby and I are going to have a candle-lit dinner of steak and lobster with a baked potatoe for New Year's Eve. I get to cook! Oh Goodie!! So, knowing that, we will be in bed early so we will have to watch the ball drop in London or some other place that is earlier than we are. It will be midnight someplace!

Happy New Year everyone!

Comment by carol on December 30, 2011 at 11:26pm: Wow, you are having a full weekend :)

For New Year's Eve, hubby and I will just come home after church and enjoy a few snacks and some wine.

Time will tell if we stay up until midnight.

Our craziness was over Christmas, and like you, we thank God for every moment.

Enjoy and stay safe everyone.

Happy New Year. Blessings in 2012!

Comment by carol on December 28, 2011 at 11:32pm: Thanks, I have no energy for that now. It's taken me all night to catch up on my emails.

Comment by JJ on December 28, 2011 at 10:52pm: Welcome back. I am done with my "holiday clean-up"!! LOL I just have to put the cards away and everything will be back to normal again.

Comment by carol on December 28, 2011 at 10:38pm: Hi all. I am back after spending Christmas with my oldest three and three grand kids, AND had about 4 calls from our sailor. Christmas was as great as it could be.

Of course, all the 4am check ins at the airports really take their toll on a person. :)