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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 NavyMomx3 on August 18, 2013 at 4:42pm: Midwest Navy Mom, so happy for you that you and your family were able to skype with your sailor for two hours!!

I seem to be hearing less from my son now that he is 'dating' by phone with a girl in Michigan. But he seems very happy and content with his life.

Comment by napstersmom on August 18, 2013 at 1:25pm: Man, Amy, that is wonderful news! I've read some about the nuke training program and talk about tough! Talk about pressure! To pass his oral exam is amazing. Congratulations.

Comment by carol on August 17, 2013 at 12:31pm: I LOVE Skype!!!

Comment by JJ on August 17, 2013 at 11:31am: Whenever I hear of all the wonderful things that are happening to all your kids, it warms my heart. And makes me smile! Great news is always a blessing..

Comment by MidwestNavyMom on August 17, 2013 at 11:03am: We got to Skype my son for two hours the other day :-) It was so good to see him and enjoy his sense of humor. Two of the Grandmas were over and I was going to show them his Australia pictures on facebook, when my other son took the computer and said, "Let me see something." Then he turned it around and there was our Sailor on Skype! It was so cool. The Grandmas thoroughly enjoyed it.

Comment by carol on August 16, 2013 at 5:32pm: Good job! Send our congrats to him.

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on August 16, 2013 at 3:25pm: Congratulations AmyS and son

Comment by AmyS on August 16, 2013 at 1:41pm: Hi, I wish I could have made the August get together, but my daughter had to work on her 18th birthday so we ended up celebrating on Saturday instead - steaks on the grill, was very good!

Good news today, my son has completed the Nuke Pipeline! He had his oral board this morning and the text I received from his was his grade followed by 'done!' I'm so happy for him!

Comment by napstersmom on August 11, 2013 at 1:35pm: Thanks Catherine! My thoughts and prayers for your son as well. And for you, too, actually. :)

Comment by napstersmom on August 11, 2013 at 12:26pm: Thanks again, JJ, for posting the picture, and Julie for organizing the lunch at Perkins. It was really nice! JJ: the shirt looks awesome! It was centered on there perfectly. :)