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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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Comment by Patricia - Navy mom x2 :) on July 21, 2011 at 10:23pm: Has anyone found a "count down timer" that actually works on facebook? one that can show how many days/hours until PIR :-)

Comment by Suzi-OH on July 19, 2011 at 6:59pm: So true about the communication. It is a privilege for them. If one person does something wrong, a whole group can suffer......this carries over even on PIR weekend. Remind your SR to get in on time, no drinking, be in the proper clothing.....at my son's PIR weekend....in one div. two girls got haircuts and the entire div lost some liberty. In another div. a few guys came in late and again, the whole division lost liberty.....I felt bad for the SR and the families of those sailors who did nothing wrong, but lost precious time with their loved ones.

When I was a young Navy wife, we had no internet, no cell phones.....we had to wait on letters or calls when they were in port. And.....while my son was in P'cola for NACCS and A school, he called a lot!! Now that he is at his duty station, we are not hearing from him as much. Of course, it's different for everyone.....but with the Navy, you soooooo have to go with the flow, even when we don't like it or it brings us to tears......hugs to all of you!!!

Comment by reggie11209 (Ship 11, Div 115) on July 9, 2011 at 1:04pm: Same here with phone calls and letters....not many but please don't stop writing! They wait everyday for your letters and if they are small enough include local newspaper articles also crosswords and horoscopes. My sons friends actually couldn't wait for horoscopes even tho they were late they loved them! lolz I was crazed everyday waiting for some kind of word but there time is very limited. My son is now out of A school and is out in Bremerton Washington and loves everything about his detail. Hang in there!

Comment by Pearl Harbor MA on July 8, 2011 at 10:17pm: Hang in there Navymouz...it was over 3 weeks before I got a real letter from mine . you should have gotten a form letter from him but you never know....

Comment by NavyMouz (2/941) on July 8, 2011 at 7:58am: My son went to boot camp on the 28th of June. I have not received any letters yet. I have received his box.

Comment by winona(Ship 07/Div245) on July 6, 2011 at 6:00pm: We finally got the first real call from our son. He called me and I immediately conferenced my husband who was at work and our other son, who lives in Nashville, in and we had a 4-way call. It was so wonderful. He is ready for this to be finished and move on. Hopefully everyone else is getting their call. This call sure brightened my day :-)!!!

Comment by Suzi-OH on July 3, 2011 at 12:29am: We had more than four people. There are no actual tickets. They just give names of guests. Under 12 didn't count to a total anyhow. If you have extra people sometimes they have them wait to see how crowded it is and if there's room, they let them in. With us, we walked in the front gate instead of driving in and had no problem. Plus, we were the first people in the hall.

Comment by eolia (ship 10/div 257) on July 3, 2011 at 12:08am: That's tough only four I wish they could use our two extra, my son is an only child and we will only need two tickets, I'm sure it will be hard for her to choose but it's so nice that it's her choice, I'm sure the people she picks will be honored to go. I thought I read something about a stand by list?

Comment by SailorBrittysMom on July 3, 2011 at 12:04am: I can't wait to get a letter from our navy girl.....I can't wait to see whom she picked to go to graduation....only 4 tix that's gonna be hard for her to pick but it'll be her choice

Comment by Suzi-OH on July 1, 2011 at 1:16pm: If there are any moms near Cincinnati...another mom is organizing a group to have breakfast with Navy brass during Navy Week there....if interested, let me know.

And....for any Ohio moms..we're planning for our summer picnic.

AND....if anyone has someone in OK at Tinker AFB be sure to join the OK moms group and the moms of sailors at Tinker.