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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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MINNESOTA NAVY FAMILY

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Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on July 1, 2011 at 7:48am: my son got home last night about 1am -- his flight from Detroit was delayed. Even though the dogs woke me up when he got home, his hug was worth it.

Comment by carol on July 1, 2011 at 12:50am: Run away if you must, JJ, but do come back. We want to hear the stories!

Comment by JJ on June 30, 2011 at 11:33pm: Oh Great....now you have me crying!! I will have to tell all the girls my story about the soldier I picked up at Christmas time and surprised his family. Remind me when we are all together, otherwise I will forget. It was one of the best things I got for that Christmas (A big Thank You from a young soldier coming home). He still has part of my heart, even if he doesn't know it. Or the other story I have when my (then) boyfriend and I picked up my brother in an ice storm. (Can you tell I am from Minnesota?) Best be hitting the sheets. The husband and I are running away tomorrow. Yes, by ourselves!!

Have a great 4th of July everybody. You will be in my prayers, right next to all our heroes!

Comment by carol on June 30, 2011 at 11:06pm: Thank you all. Day one with the sailor was great!

And thank you for the birthday wishes. (It's not until Tuesday, but I haven't had my sailor home since Boot Camp for it. It's a great present :)

All of you enjoy a Happy and safe Fourth of July weekend. I know you remember why we can celebrate. We are the Home of the Free - Because of the Brave!

Comment by tls on June 30, 2011 at 10:59pm: I feel the same way, MidwestNavyMom! It's like they are all one big happy family, and if I can shake the hand of a Sailor, I am that much closer to my own!

Carol --- Awesome news!! Enjoy your Sailor! And happy birthday!

Comment by MidwestNavyMom on June 30, 2011 at 10:13pm: MN Sunshine - Enjoy PIR! It is amazing. I still have a lot of the pictures we took in September there as my screen saver at work:-)

Comment by MidwestNavyMom on June 30, 2011 at 10:12pm: Carol - That is awesome (your surprise)! I hope for that sometime. I think that would be one of the best surprises!! Enjoy having him home on your birthday.

I saw a Sailor at the park I run/walk around a couple weekends ago. She surprised her family too. I stopped to tell her thank you and shook her hand, then we talked a little. When she asked where my son was stationed I got a little misty eyed (happens at random times) and her family with her said don't worry about it (I apologized for getting teary) and said it happens all the time to them too. Then I saw 3 Sailors at MOA so I told them thank you also and shook their hands. Somehow it makes me feel a little closer to my son when I see other Sailors.

Comment by carol on June 30, 2011 at 6:19pm: Thanks, JJ. We went to BWW for lunch! (The one in Riverdale)

Comment by JJ on June 30, 2011 at 3:33pm: Happy news all 'round! I love surprises...especially other peoples. Happy Birthday to you as well.

Comment by carol on June 30, 2011 at 1:25pm: Hi, have fun at PIR, it's fantastic. My sailor surprised me this morning, and walked in the door. My niece picked him up from the airport at midnight, and he slept at my sister's. Then my husband went to get him this morning. WOW!! Now I get to enjoy him for a bit, and over my birthday, too!