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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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GROUP FOR FAMILIES OF MINNESOTA NAVY MEMBERS

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Comment by kellig on March 30, 2011 at 7:29pm: Right now I can do any weekend in April.

Comment by MN Mom of MM on March 30, 2011 at 6:24pm: I am vendor with my sun catchers on the 16th so that one is out for me. My sailor is comming home on the 22nd so am not sure I would be in favor of any time but the 9th.

Comment by tls on March 30, 2011 at 6:03pm: I can't do that weekend --- I could do April 9 or 23. Nothing's too early for me, since I missed the last one! :-) But whatever everyone else thinks --- when is everyone available in April?

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on March 30, 2011 at 6:00pm: The only weekend I'm available in April is April 16 - do we want to meet then? or is that too soon?

Comment by tls on March 30, 2011 at 5:53pm: So are we skipping April then?

Also -- on another note --- have any of you heard of --- or had experience with --- the STA-21 program? After working the Wings Over Meridian event last weekend, my Sailor has decided that she wants to apply for this program to become a pilot. I guess it means going to "how to be an officer" school for 8 weeks and then going to college for 3 years ... but other than that, I don't know much .... I'm surfing the STA-21 site, but thought I'd ask if any of you have any insight.

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on March 30, 2011 at 5:46pm: I'm planning on making reservations again at Chili's on 394 x 100 on 5/7. I will create a get together discussion a couple weeks before when I call and make the reservations. We wouldn't probably have a problem if we just showed up - but with the reservations, they had the table setup for us.

Comment by JJ on March 30, 2011 at 4:26pm: Kelli, where's it gonna be? And when?

Comment by kellig on March 30, 2011 at 4:24pm: We missed you too! Next time, it's just around the corner already!

Comment by JJ on March 29, 2011 at 11:15pm: Thank You Kelli. Now I can put another photo into my album with the names. One of these days I am going to remember everybodies name! I am so sorry that I missed it.

Comment by kellig on March 29, 2011 at 6:40pm: Ok, here goes with names, if I get someone wrong, I'm sooooooooo sorry!

Left side front to back - Betty, Mary Beth, Jane

Right side front to back - Amanda, Linda, Kelli