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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 jess on November 18, 2013 at 4:25pm: Thanks! I really appreciate the help, lately I could use all I can get lol.

Comment by jess on November 18, 2013 at 2:23pm: What is a PSD, I haven't learned all the acronyms yet.

Comment by jess on November 18, 2013 at 2:15pm: My husband told me he will be there for around 7 months. However, after reading this site and others, I have found my husband was wrong on a lot of things. lol.

Comment by jess on November 18, 2013 at 12:11pm: My husband is in boot camp right now. He will start A school in January in Great Lakes as well. Does anyone have info on moving there? Is it an option to live on base while he is in school? When would we be able to move there? What paperwork is involved? Also anyone currently living there, any advise on daycare would be greatly appreciated!

Comment by meagan5220 on November 17, 2013 at 3:33pm: Does he have a hard copy of his orders at all? When he gets there he needs to go to PSD asap to see about if they will refund him at all for the moving expenses. Save all receipts, print a screen shot of the BUPERs site being down. etc. Anything that you might need to show what you moved and why you did it the way you did.

Idk anything about mil housing in Norfolk.. I know some of them are older and some had some mold issues but its specific housing units so you can easily google that information. You can also google the information about reviews of each community.

Keep every single receipt, gas, snacks, dinner, hotels. Make sure you weigh the truck before and after if you use a truck and keep the paperwork. Also keep any and all paperwork the moving company or truck company you use gives you.

As far as thanksgiving there is really no way to know. If he has to work he has to work. Typically its duty section only for holidays. But he wont know for sure or know his duty section until he checks in. My husband worked Christmas last year. and many other holidays. Except the worst, hope for the best.

Comment by NWKate on October 31, 2013 at 8:35pm: hi Harmonie! blogging is a great way to help get through deployments and such. my husband is currently at bc and i started a blog before he left. im not the most consistent blogger but it does help! my blog is thesimplelifeofanavywife.wordpress.com

Comment by Harmonie Yaeger on October 31, 2013 at 7:12pm: Hello everyone! I'm pretty new to this site.. But I wanted to post a link to my blog. My husband is getting ready for his (and our) first deployment so I decided to start a blog to help not only myself but other navy wives... The address is loveharmonie.blogspot.com
Anyone else have blogs??

Comment by meagan5220 on October 30, 2013 at 3:02pm: Yes the Navy will store your stuff for 90 days, and then if you still need it after that its a case by case basis or they charge you if they feel like you don't qualify for extended storage. A partial move means you set the stuff aside but you get money for moving it yourself instead of the company moving it.

The Navy will pay for a ticket for him after his schooling from his school command to his next duty station. but if he decides to come home and reroutes then the extra will be on him.

Comment by Adie on October 30, 2013 at 11:22am: Contact your local Family Fleet Readiness. They were amazing with our move. They showed us how to set it up online. Also, my husbands orders were for June and our stuff didn't get moved until July. And if we hadn't found a place yet, they would store it for us, no charge, until we did find a place. I don't know if that is Norfolk or Navy specific. The Navy usually sublets the moving as well, so you can put aside what you want to move, instead of trying to do a partial. The gentlemen asked us what stuff was going and what wasn't. You can also try to do a do-it-yourself move. Also, they may ask your husband if he wants a plane ticket or if he's driving when he gets his orders.

Comment by meagan5220 on October 30, 2013 at 10:56am: a partial just means most of it the movers take and the rest goes in the car with you on your move. You weigh the car before and after loading it up and they reimburse you for that weight in your car.