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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 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.

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Moms of IS (Intelligence Specialist) sailors.

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My son has found the perfect job for a teenager! When I ask him, "What are you doing?", he honestly tells me, "Sorry, Mom, I can't tell you."

Members: 194
Latest Activity: May 17, 2023

IN MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN MILITARY. THANK YOU.

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Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on December 3, 2016 at 12:07am: JM, sorry to hear about your son. I hope he is doing well in the civilian sector again. Congrats on your daughter. My son's reup comes around next year guess he will go another 3 after this one. That will give him at least 12 years. He is still teeter-tottering about it though.

Glad to hear from you.

Comment by JM-ISmomx2 on December 2, 2016 at 9:26pm: @Mary, our son is now out. Released after 3 years due to medical reasons. Daughter is in for at least 10, maybe more.
@Susud - have your sailor apply to Molly's adoption program. They'll send care packages to the entire group for moral support.

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on December 2, 2016 at 9:11pm: Deployment? Hmm...a nice watch that will keep track of a couple of different time zones, a good camera or large SD card for pictures, a subscription for an online streaming service to watch movies, listen to music, etc when he is in port. Prepaid credit cards are nice but many of them charge huge fees for international use.

JM, is your son still in also? Have not heard from you in awhile.

I don't really have any favorite web pages with jokes but just plug it into your search and there are many pages out there with jokes, inspirational messages, etc

Comment by Happy3boys on December 2, 2016 at 7:55pm: Happy holidays Navy family!

Comment by Goat on December 2, 2016 at 7:19pm: @Susud - My husband is too, they may be going together. I got my husband a kindle paperwhite with several books downloaded and the luxury comfort set from fleetsheets. It has a mattress topper and sheet set and a curtain organizer with mesh pockets. Someone else suggested some flat magnetic picture frames for inside their rack. I'm looking at having a couple pictures printed onto magnets since that may hold up better.

If he doesn't already have one, a nice compact toiletry bag/organizer. Extra work socks and the blue t-shirts if he needs those. I can't think of anything else. My husband spends all his time on the ship working, napping or at the gym so I tried to make his rack as comfy as possible haha.

Comment by susud1700 on December 2, 2016 at 6:55pm: My son is going on deployment early 2017. Any ideas for Christmas presents?

Comment by kamme on December 2, 2016 at 6:02pm: @Deborah Ann My son is in England as well.

Comment by JM-ISmomx2 on December 2, 2016 at 4:04pm: Go on the internet. Look up letters from bootcamp. Very funny stuff. Send some to your sailor to read with friends!

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on December 2, 2016 at 2:35pm: MaryNavywife/mom, great to invite moms to your facebook group. Remember that you want to keep some of those facebook pages as closed groups so the "wrong" kind of folks don't infiltrate your groups. OPSEC is the word of the day/week/year.

Have a wonderful Holiday Season!!

Deborah Ann, I understand. My sailor has started his 8th year. The first 10 months were the worst. I didn't think anything could get much worse than bootcamp and not having him here for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years but then as soon as school was over he was sent to Korea. Let me tell you...he and I both shed tears over that one. But after his second month there he found that he loved the country! Since then he has had ship duty in Japan, and shore duty in Hawaii. I miss seeing him, his wife and son but he is satisfied with his job. He still wants to take his family back to Korea to live a couple of years. He found his second home. :-)

ShawnMom...while your daughter is at GL, send news clippings, magazines, sports stories, etc that she can share with her shipmates. Some of them never get mail from home. It will also help you pass time trying to think of things that others in her "ship" might like to read.

Biggg Navy Hugs

Comment by MaryNavywife/mom on December 2, 2016 at 12:04pm: ShawnMom if you're on Facebook we would love to have you https://www.facebook.com/groups/1170724096303821/