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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 Cindy in Snowy MN on January 29, 2011 at 9:41am: Hello ladies, and prayers to you Lauritz for Nathan's speedy recovery!! I know how you feel...it is not easy when your sailor is sick and your so far away. Mine was hospitalized a few weeks ago in Pensacola because he was severely dehydrated...and it was scary for me, you want to be there SO BAD!!! So, remind your Sailors to drink lots of water!!!!!!

Welcome Karen...N4M's is the best site to be at, it has been my life line! My son graduated Boot Camp Dec. 17th...so hang in there kiddo tho Roller Coaster has just left the gate (again)! :) But we are all here for you to vent...cry...laugh...whatever the mood may be for the minute!! If you have not done so already join a group on N4M's with moms from the same PIR as you, and /or the same ship and Division (THAT is a great help as well)! I am still good friends with many moms I met here, and we all got together at the Meet and Greet in Chicago before PIR to meet face to face, and some of our Sailors are together at A School, on this journey together...so it is nice to have that connection! It is so cool meeting people from all over the United States...and right here at home TOO!!!!

OK, I rambled enough! Enjoy your Saturday!!

Cindy

Comment by kellig on January 28, 2011 at 11:21pm: Lauritz, sorry to hear about your son, my prayers are with you both.

Karen, this is a great site and roller coaster is the perfect definition. My son's PIR was 10/08/10 so ask any questions you want!

Too bad the trip wasn't what you were hoping for JJ. I noticed that the weather hasn't been very good down there for awhile now.

Comment by carol on January 28, 2011 at 11:07pm: Welcome back JJ. Sorry the trip wasn't quite the way you thought it would be. I tried to send you a message before you left, but the computer was not cooperating. Don't know if you got it or not.

Comment by tls on January 28, 2011 at 9:42pm: HI LAURITZ --- Will pray for Nathan ... but I trust JJ 100% .... if she says that the hospital is good, it must be!

HI KAREN H --- My daughter is also in boot camp --- she will graduate on 11Feb11, God willing. When is PIR for your son?

Comment by JJ on January 28, 2011 at 8:13pm: I will get this all done in one shot...Back from Florida where it was cloudy and cool all the time, EXCEPT when we were at the Hospital seeing our WWII vet. He had a small stroke the day we got there! We left there about noon today...He got out of the hospital at 1:00 today. So our visit wasn't what we had hoped for him. He didn't know who we were when we first got there.

Bahrain's hospital is very good, so don't be letting Nathan tell you any different. So, mom, don't worry too much. He is in good hands. But we all worry about our kids, no matter how old they are. I, (myself) was there and saw that the hospital was very good. I will include Nathan in my prayers, as well.

Comment by carol on January 28, 2011 at 7:13pm: Lauritz, I will pray also. There is also a pray for strength for you. Take care.

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on January 28, 2011 at 3:38pm: I will include Nathan in my prayers.

Comment by carol on January 27, 2011 at 11:36pm: Welcome aboard, Karen H. We are glad that you are here. When is your son's PIR and I hope that you are planning on going. It is the greatest experience.

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on January 27, 2011 at 10:30pm: Welcome to the roller coaster of the Navy life. my son graduated boot camp last July and now is in Nuke Power School in Goose Creek, SC.

Comment by Karen H. on January 27, 2011 at 10:08pm: All I am new to this group. My son is in boot camp and is about half way through. You are all an inspiration to me. I know I will have so many questions in the weeks and monthes ahead.