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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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Latest Activity: 21 hours ago

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Comment by JJ on December 10, 2013 at 2:16pm: Wreaths Across the Nation is this Saturday! Fort Snelling Cemetery has their ceramony at 11:00 a.m. at the main flag pole. Wreaths will be placed at the gravesites. If you haven't been out there during Christmas, please find time to do that. If you would like to order wreaths for the ocassion, Tim from the Flowerama (763-755-7100) will be taking a large number of wreaths out there on Thursday night. Just mention that you are a Navy Mom and he will take good care of you. The wreaths that he has a 24-26" with cones and a bow. People will be out there to lay the wreaths for you.

Comment by mariecb on December 9, 2013 at 7:14pm: I am originally from EGF, now live in Duluth. You'll have to message me and give me your name. See if we know each other?!

Comment by Ann aka Brady's mom on December 9, 2013 at 6:57pm: Soon to be Navy mom from East Grand Forks MN. My son signs his enlistment this Thursday afternoon.

Comment by Debbie on December 9, 2013 at 11:45am: Wish I had known about the European Fest. don't know if I would have ventured out in the snow,New Prague about an hour away. My son will be home the same time, til the 9th. Can't wait to see him!

Comment by MN Mom of MM on December 8, 2013 at 11:08pm: Yes Debbie, I would like to see it be done with snow after the holidays too. I spent the day in New Prague with my Minnesota Sno Flakes at the European Festival. Travel there and back was not fun, but this was the last craft show I have planned for the year. I will be glad to catch up on the etsy orders, and sales in my shop. Also will have 7 more days of school/work till Holiday break. The sad part is I have off the 19-Jan 2nd, and our sailor will be home Dec 28-Jan 7th. Wish the time overlapped better. But we will have to take advantage of every minute we have with him here.

Comment by Debbie on December 8, 2013 at 2:09pm: 2 - 4 inches of snow predicted for us in SE MN today. This better melt right after Christmas!!

Comment by JJ on December 7, 2013 at 8:38pm: Thanks for the compliment regarding the photo editing. I enjoy taking the pictures and making them fit properly when I get home so I can post them.

Hawaii is beautiful. Must be why this will be our 7th trip there! Leaving in March for two weeks!! As most of the Navy Moms know, my son was stationed there for three years (how time flies!) and we were able to visit him there. We have been nearly every place he has been stationed, so my "trip log" is lengthy. I will be glad when he decides that he will be done....it's been 20 years!! I am getting too old for all these long trips to see him!!! NOT LOL

Comment by AmyS on December 7, 2013 at 3:39pm: Welcome Barb! JJ, thank you for posting the picture from the lunch, you did an excellent job on the photo editing!

My son went to another sailors family home in Utica, NY, two hours from where they are at, for Thanksgiving. He brought his four wheeler and they spent the day riding and relaxing and had a really good time. He will not be home for Christmas, but he will be driving home in January and then flying to Pearl Harbor, HI where he will join the crew of the USS Bremerton. He seems very happy with his orders. I like them too as I've never been to Hawaii:)

Comment by JJ on December 7, 2013 at 1:42pm: Welcome Aboard Barb to our group! I hope that you find that we are a nice group of ladies that wish to be of moral support and a lot of fun. Any questions that you might have, feel free to ask and someone will know the answer or point you in the right direction. If you can attend one of our get togethers in the near future, please come and get to know us personally. We are of all ages, with kids that are in different "parts" of the Navy, different ranks, and different locations. Something for everyone. Once again, Welcome!

Comment by MidwestNavyMom on November 29, 2013 at 10:01pm: Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Our youngest got his wisdom teeth out today and our Sailor was sick around Thanksgiving. He's on a ship, but we've gotten intermittent e-mail so that has been great :-) I'm thankful for my Navy Mom's. It's nice to talk to people I know understand.