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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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FLORIDA NAVY MOMS!!!

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Navy Mom's From Florida!!!

Location: FLORIDA
Members: 294
Latest Activity: Nov 20, 2022

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Comment by navymom3 on December 1, 2011 at 3:24pm: Evi I think I read it before also. klfailla I know your son really wants to join now but best he gets everything needed including the waiver. Would not want him to get through BC and in the middle of school then to have it all end. Just hang in there and keep on them.

Comment by Evi on December 1, 2011 at 3:10pm: I read somewhere - either here on bootcamp group or on FB about a recruit who got separated because of past ADD medication use. He was already at bootcamp when it came up. It is not unusual to have to get waivers, I just don't know specifically about ADD meds.

Comment by klfailla on December 1, 2011 at 2:26pm: Help! I am in desperate need of some advise! My son has been trying to enlist for the last several months and seems to be getting the run around from his recruiter. He went to MEPS last week to take his oath (?) and was denied because of a missising medical waiver.

When he was 10, he lived with his father for a few months. Turns out his dad put him on ADD medication without my knowledge. Now, 10 years later, they found the drug in his medical record and are telling him he as to have a clearance waiver from the prescribing physician. After a lot of research to find out who that was, we found out that the lady passed away a few years ago.

Now they are telling him he has to get a psychiatric evaluation from the Navy CME before they will clear him and it could take another 6 months. Does this sound odd to anyone else? I would ask his recruiter, but we can't EVER seem to get the guy on the phone and have only managed to get as far as we have because we go down to his office and sit there until he does something.

I know their recruiting requirements are down, but this seems to be and overly difficult process!

Thanks!!

Comment by janieflorida on December 1, 2011 at 8:23am: Hi Mary Beth, hope all is well up North. Our Elks is doing 3 benefits this month.

Enjoy your parade

Comment by cocojazz on November 20, 2011 at 10:33pm: Oops, didnt look down far enough in the Discussion Forum's. Ill join one of the already formed discussion groups in my area.

Comment by d o on November 16, 2011 at 5:06pm: Wow Joann your daughter sounds so accomplished, I'm surprised they didn't send her to Annapolis. I know you must be proud. Welcome to the roller coaster of Navy mom life!

Comment by OkSuzy on November 16, 2011 at 3:55pm: Congratulations Joann! We are from Sarasota....we're neighbors!

Comment by navymom3 on November 11, 2011 at 12:24pm: Welcome Joann. She will love the Navy!

Comment by FireKitty on November 10, 2011 at 12:01pm: What a great idea and generous offer... we live in Tampa and would love to participate if my husband is not on duty that day... if he is, I would be willing to volunteer to assist you if you need it. : )