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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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Graduation Info
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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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MINNESOTA NAVY FAMILY

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GROUP FOR FAMILIES OF MINNESOTA NAVY MEMBERS

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Comment by Karen H. on March 7, 2011 at 10:14pm: My husband and I just joined the patriot guard. We have a friend who is in the military who is still a member and thought we might be interested. We were at the home comming for him. They were a Army unit that returned from tour of duty. I new that I wanted to be apart of this group who has so much pride for your soldiers. It was fantastic to see. Thanks for the video.

Comment by whoshero on March 7, 2011 at 12:15pm: Wow, so much happens when I don't check in once in a while. Just had a visit from our son and now he is off to Gulf Port, MS. This is the 3rd goodbye and instead of getting easier I cried more :) After MS he heads to Port Hueneme, CA. After all this snow I think we might need to visit him there.

Comment by MN Mom of MM on March 7, 2011 at 12:09am: We will be flying to Goose Creek to see our sailor on the 17th. Meeting on the following weekend might work for me.

Comment by carol on March 6, 2011 at 10:43pm: Is it really March already???

I haven't heard anything, but I'm open the 19th or 26th.

Anybody else?

Comment by carol on March 6, 2011 at 10:26pm: Thanks for showing the video. We do need to remember there are wonderful people who care about military families at all times.

Thanks, ladies!!

Comment by tls on March 6, 2011 at 3:23pm: JJ --- That video was the Patriot Guard, I think ... what they did at one particular funeral ... made my tear up, just thinking that they care so much to protect the families of fallen soldiers from even more pain.

Comment by JJ on March 6, 2011 at 2:46pm: There are many, many GOOD groups that ride and protect the families of fallen soldiers during their time of sorrow. One group that is here in Minnesota is the Patriot Guard and you don't even have to be a member to belong. Many times the Patriot Guard has been at a funeral where a group has "tried" to be disruptive, and they took care of the matter right there and then. (Most groups that protest can not be within a certain number of feet of the family.) There are many motorcycle groups that ride all over the USA and other countries that are more than willing to "stand up for our rights" and do the right thing. Most back the military and their families. However, there are a few that do not agree with ANYTHING that the military stands for or does. We fight for everyones' right, even for those that we do not agree with. America! We thank you!

Comment by tls on March 6, 2011 at 10:02am: Check out this video --- I had never heard of this group, but it makes me wish I rode!!

Christian Veterans Protect the Funeral of a Fallen Soldier

Comment by Mooselover (GW Mom) on March 2, 2011 at 8:50pm: Thanks! It is a great feeling. Now just to get through HS graduation and then boot camp.

Comment by AmyS on March 2, 2011 at 3:19pm: Another congrats to the new Navy Moms! I'm told PIR is amazing and I can't wait for my son's. He is a DEPper until Oct 4th and he'll be going to Goose Creek, SC after boot camp. My husband keeps telling me to relax about everything and get him graduated from high school! It's hard not to look ahead though, I'm so proud of the path he's chosen.