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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 carol on October 22, 2013 at 11:40am: Go for the get together! It is always wonderful to talk with other Navy Moms. I hope you can do one soon. Down here (if I may use that term) we even started doing an "Every-One's Birthday" in April. We all bring a wrapped gift and exchange them.

Comment by mariecb on October 22, 2013 at 11:35am: Ole-CorpsmanMom - great to have someone so close. I know of another mom who lives near Duluth who may also join us. Your son's job sounds wonderful. My son is a trained EMT and was interested in the Corpsman but is training as a Machinist Mate for now. He is still in the draft for the Seal training.Right now he had his PIR on 10-11-13, and is on hold for A school at GL. We should plan a get together!

Comment by Ole-CorpsmanMom on October 22, 2013 at 11:16am: Hi all, I am not sure what took me so long to find this group! LOL. I am from Duluth also mariecb. My son finished boot camp in February, Corpsman training in June and just finished field med battalion training on 10.11.13. He is not trained to be on the frontline with the marines but is stationed in at Camp LeJeune Naval Hospital taking care of new born babies. :) I do know a mom from Virginia that if we can get a get together she would probably come. :)

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on October 20, 2013 at 5:38pm: I just sent request to join but it didn't give me the option to send message. I live in Plymouth -- western suburb of Minneapolis

Comment by MN_MOM on October 20, 2013 at 5:30pm: let's try this again. For you with Sailors from Minnesota. I started a group. Let me know where you are from in Minnesota.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/navymomsmn/

Comment by MidwestNavyMom on October 17, 2013 at 3:52pm: Have a great time JJ! How exciting to see both of your boys!

Welcome Mindshaper87. Hope you can join us, we have a good time when we get together :-)

Comment by J Peder on October 16, 2013 at 1:20pm: Welcome Mindshaper87
You are close to the cities.My Brother in law and family are in Eau Claire so I know the trip back and forth quite well, If only to stop in Baldwin at the A&W or for fireworks on the way there or back : )

Comment by carol on October 14, 2013 at 11:20pm: Mindshaper87, I'm looking forward to meeting you soon! Glad to have you here.

Have a good night, ladies.

Comment by JJ on October 14, 2013 at 10:57pm: Mindshaper87...I hope that you can join us in November! I am sure that SOMEONE will set something up by the 1st of Novemeber. As I said earlier, I just hope that it isn't on the 9th since I will be in Colorado seeing my guys. The boys are 38 minutes apart so we can see them both! Keep an eye open for the get together! Check at the top under "Discussion Forum". Hope to see you then.

Comment by mindshaper87 on October 14, 2013 at 9:02pm: Hi Navy Moms! I am actually from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. However, there doesn't seem to be many northwestern Wisconsin Navy moms. I am actually closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee so I thought maybe I would make more connections and be able to attend meet and greets! My son had his PIR on May 31, 2013. He is currently in P'cola on hold for AWS -A School. He graduated aircrew candidate school in July. He flew home this weekend. We dropped him off at MPLS airport this afternoon. It was the first time I have seen him since May 31. The goodbye was just as hard this time. Hoping to make some Navy mom connections here :)