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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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

Events

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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MINNESOTA NAVY FAMILY

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GROUP FOR FAMILIES OF MINNESOTA NAVY MEMBERS

Members: 120
Latest Activity: Feb 16, 2021

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Comment by JJ on July 7, 2016 at 9:30am: DavesMom....you can't please everyone all the time, no matter how hard you try. You are so right about finding a place in the middle of everyone since you never know who is coming and who is not. But like I have said many times, "whoever picks the place can choose whatever location they want" and hope that other Navy Moms come.

Comment by DavesMom on July 7, 2016 at 1:38am: Hi MidwestNavyMom. So happy for you that you had a chance to see your Sailor. MN Mom of MM, I picked a central location and hope it will work out for you. I live 40 miles north of the lunch location. A 30 mile drive from my home is the closest that any of these lunches have ever been for me, too. :( I wish there was a way to make it equally convenient for all.

Comment by MidwestNavyMom on July 6, 2016 at 10:58pm: I haven't been on here for awhile. Sorry about your friend JJ! We just got back from seeing our sailor in Virginia! Nice trip, except lots of delays and reroutes due to the storms last night. I forget who it was but a Tiger Cruise sounds wonderful!!

Comment by DavesMom on July 5, 2016 at 2:09am: Thanks for the instructions, JJ. Done. :) Looking forward to seeing you again.

Comment by JJ on July 4, 2016 at 11:54am: DavesMom....Please post to this page above. Just "ADD A DISCUSSION" and post information, address, time and phone number and what ever else you wish. I have it maked on my calendar!!

Comment by DavesMom on July 3, 2016 at 11:25pm: I'll post their phone number, too: 651-631-2026

Comment by DavesMom on July 3, 2016 at 11:24pm: I have already notified the Perkins at 696 W. County Road D, New Brighton, 55112 to expect a group of us at 1:00 pm on Sat., July 23. It is a central location very near I-35W between Hwy. 36 and I-694. I didn't see your posts until just now MN Mom of MM and SaltyMama. I hope you can make it. I'll post it on facebook, too, for those who weren't able to go to the get together on the 16th.

Comment by MN Mom of MM on July 3, 2016 at 1:16am: I would like to see what Lake Elmo is like. It is more in the area I need to be later that day, and I responded to the fb page when someone posted "we should get together again" I said there was something being planned for the 23rd.

Comment by SaltyMama on July 2, 2016 at 9:23pm: I live in Lake Emo and we've never had a gathering closer than 28-30 miles from my house. It's right next to Stillwater on one side and Woodbury on the other. There are plenty of restaurants over here if anyone is interested. If so, I will set something up.

Comment by JJ on July 2, 2016 at 3:02pm: The location on 35W and County Road D is a hop and skip from Highway 36. You could take that to 694 and head south to Woodbury...it would only take you about 20 minutes or so. But I can see our point about driving so far north. So many of us are on the North side...Stacy, Wyoming, Lake Elmo, Stillwater.....so you can see why the drive to Apply Valley, Shakopee, Savage area might not work for those people either. There isn't really a happy medium for all of us. I don't know that much about the Woodbury area either, so I am at a loss. Any ideas from the rest of the Navy Moms??