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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!

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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 kellig on May 14, 2011 at 9:59am: So sorry, not gonna make it today. We need to help my mom. Her van is not running so my hubby will look at that while I take her to run some errands. She just won't part with the silly thing! Have fun and I'll try to make the next one.

Comment by tls on May 13, 2011 at 10:37pm: I'm going to have to miss this one again, ladies --- sorry. My husband's new recovery program has begun at church on Saturday nights and there is lots to do to prepare .... he's working his 2nd job all day, so it's up to me ...

Have a great time!

Comment by Theblackdot on May 13, 2011 at 9:11pm: I should be there, if all goes well! Mn linda (nuke MMPower School) thanks for the directions!

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on May 13, 2011 at 5:53pm: I'll be there and one other has accepted under the discussion above. I know there were a few people initially who said they'd be there.

Comment by MN Mom of MM on May 13, 2011 at 3:38pm: Hi Minnesota NAVY Moms.

I am just checking in to see if there is still a gathering at Chilis tomorrow. I have not seen/read much about people being able to make it on this site lately, I will check tonight again with Kelli from down here in So MN is able to go. I am open on Saturday, but don't want to go to cities for lunch if everyone else is busy that day. Enjoy the time with your sailor's wife Julie.

Comment by carol on May 10, 2011 at 10:19pm: Hope everyone is safe from the stormy weather tonight!

Stay safe.

Comment by JJ on May 10, 2011 at 9:48pm: How wonderful, Julie!! Maybe she will surprise you and decide that the Navy is where she belongs for a LONG, LONG time. I am hoping that Eric Robert will tell us that he is at the end of his duty. Guess that won't happen for at least three more years, but maybe. He is coming up on year 20 in November, but I think that he will stay in for 26 or 30. Let's see how close I am in 2017....

Congrats to you are your family.

Comment by carol on May 10, 2011 at 9:01pm: Julie, please tell your daughter how proud we are of her.

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on May 9, 2011 at 7:16pm: I was told they roll up their pant legs for this high-tech machine that makes an insert for their boots that fit their feet. And they are not told to roll them down, so they come home still rolled up.

Comment by I'm Laurie the Sailor's Mom! on May 9, 2011 at 5:39pm: Julie,
My son told me he could see no reason for the pants legs being rolled up except simple obedience to an order. It may have been helpful in sizing their new shoes and boots. It's funny, but in the youtube videos I just posted, you can see the recruits with their pants legs rolled up.