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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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- Graduation Info
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Missouri Family and Friends
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A group for Navy Family and Friends from the state of Missouri with DEP or Active children
Members: 218
Latest Activity: Oct 12, 2024
Discussion Forum
St. Louis Cardinals game August 15, 2013, (Swearing in of Cardinal Company)
Started by PROUDMAMMAOF2SAILORSSHIP11DIV383. Last reply by carols_kitchen May 30, 2013. 1 Reply 1 Like
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Comment by MaggieMay on July 10, 2014 at 9:55am
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Welcome JoplinMom! I'm from the other side of the state but on here we're all one....supporting our kids who are scattered all over the world. Best of luck to your son in bootcamp!
NavyMom5.7 - you need to check in and tell us how PIR went! Love to hear those graduation stories and where's your daughter now?
Hope everyone is having a great day and hearing from your sailors!
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Comment by JoplinMom on July 9, 2014 at 7:36pm
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Hi Missouri! My son currently has a PIR date of 8/22/14. We are from Joplin.
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Comment by NavyMom5.7 on June 24, 2014 at 12:05am
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Thanks joshmom!
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Happy Monday MO!
WooooHoooo NavyMom5.7 PIR is just around the corner for you!!! Safe travels, have a wonderful time, post pics when you get back, don't forget the tissues and give your girl an extra hug from us!
Sandy & Carol - posting wedding pics is a must! Congrats to your sailors!!!
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Hello Missouri! Just counting down the days for PIR (7.3.2014). Ready to see my daughter again!
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Comment by SandySea on June 20, 2014 at 4:42pm
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My daughter is home from college for the summer. No luck with a summer job so keeping busy with volunteer work. Trying to dot the i's and cross the t's for nursing school applications later this year. Sailor son and fiancee are planning a wedding--trying for September of this year. Plans are very loose right now but hopefully it will all work out.
Joshmom-hope you get that call again soon.
Carol-be sure we see a picture of the big day.
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Comment by carols_kitchen on June 19, 2014 at 3:46pm
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Just got back from visiting our son after over a year of not seeing him. Since he's getting ready for sea trials, he had the evenings off. We did lots of nothing and lots of fun things together. Now, fingers crossed he'll be back on land for his "reaffirmation" of his vows, aka, wedding with pictures vs their Justice of the Peace wedding to get her down to base. We had one day with just Heather, and one evening with just Andy, and the rest of the time we were together.
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Hi Carol! I've been enjoying this good ole Misssouri humidity...lol...NOT!!!! Actually I'm getting ready to head down to Bull Shoals Lake for a few days of fun in the sun. Hey, we can't do anything about the heat so might as well jump in the water and stay cool! Need some time just to relax...it seems like this summer has been so busy. Would love to try to put together a M&G luncheon but I just haven't figured out when. Hopefully things will settle down a little and I'll throw some dates out. Would love to see Navy moms again and meet new ones.
Son is on deployment now and this morning I missed his call...arrrrrgh! It was one of those very early morning calls and I slept right through it. I went to a meeting last night and turned the volume down and forgot to turn it back up...just my luck. Hoping he try's again soon.
Come on ladies let's hear from all of you!
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Hi there. What's everyone doing this summer?
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Hello MO! It's Friday - YEAH!!!!
Have a great weekend everyone!
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