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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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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO NAVY MOMS

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Nor Cal & East Foothill Counties: Sacramento, El Dorado, Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin, Yolo, Amador, Calaveras, Sutter, Yuba and beyond. An active support group for Navy families & friends.

Location: Northern/Eastern California - Sacramento & Foothills
Members: 179
Latest Activity: Sep 2, 2022

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Comment by Paymaster on April 28, 2010 at 12:58pm: Meet and Greet, Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 2:00 pm. Mirabella Cafe, 7318 Winding Way, Fair Oaks, CA 95628.

Hope all can make it.

Comment by NevadaSierra on April 28, 2010 at 9:37am: Yea - new grand baby!!! Congrats Jody.
Jillorraine - you will have a great time. Travel safe.
BHappy - have you joined the Japan Mom's? I'm sure that they will help you out.
Mother's day - umm I don't think in the time our sailor has been a sailor we have shared one - I share him with all of you and those closest to him. I tease him about the 'mother' he can bring out in me.
Take care - 'see' you next week. I'm off to the UMW Assembly in St. Louis. ~S

Comment by Paymaster on April 28, 2010 at 9:04am: Grandma B...I got a Baby Lock Imagine. Made husband happy by saving $400.00 buying it in Oregon.

Yes. Bee I could have gone to Hawaii for what I spent on the serger, but now I can make little sundresses for those two cute granddaughters of mind! Did I tell you that they are expecting another baby in Oct? They find out May 17th if its a boy or girl. Yes your right, singer does not make a quility serger.

Yes, I have fabric all picked out to make a new quilt for the new baby. Have some really cute stuff with butterfly's if its a girl and rockets if its a boy. Ready, set, sew.

Ginger, good to see you back!

Comment by BunkerQB on April 27, 2010 at 10:20pm: Hey jilllorraine, been a camera buff for a while. I would suggest you read the instructions carefully and writ a brief cheap sheet. Better yet, go out and test you camera. Don't know what memory cards come with the new cameras but whatever it is - it won't be enough memory. Get a couple of extras.
Watch for updates on the calendar. See version date?. Links to RSVP are just under the calendar once the event is set up. We'll look forward to seeing the pics.
A SERGER with auto-threader or trip to Hawaii? It's about the same cost. GrandmaB, Singer doesn't not make the best sergers (at least in the old days). I remember an industrial company that make a version for home use.

Comment by GrandmaB on April 27, 2010 at 6:09pm: What model serger did you get? The 634 D or another model? Do you use it for all types of sewing. My old singer just gave up and so I am looking for a new machine. Would love more info on the serger.

Comment by tallmama on April 27, 2010 at 4:21pm: Oh, jilloraine, I envy you being able to see your sailor so soon! I talked to my daughter's boyfriend today, and he said he wants to take me out for Mother's Day since my daughter won't be home. Ain't that sweet!

Comment by paddysmima on April 27, 2010 at 2:13pm: ugh! Raining in Santa Rosa! Again! I was hoping for a full week out doors. Guess I shouldn't complain, good for the garden.
I do not sew much. I don't even have a machine. About all I do is some light mending by hand. Needless to say I envy anyone with any sewing skill. What a fun hobby that would be.

Comment by tallmama on April 27, 2010 at 1:47pm: Auto threader, you lucky duck. That's the hardest thing about the serger is when the thread breaks or gets messed up and you have to rethread it. Usually I just tie the ends together, bippity-boppity-boop, they're done, but when I have to rethread and get out those little pointy tweezers, ugh, it's frustrating.

Comment by Paymaster on April 27, 2010 at 1:42pm: Tallmama....My serger only goes with me, needless to say I don't loan it out.

My first serger I purchased 18 years ago and have used it almost daily on sewing projects. Needless to say I got my monies worth out of it.

Saved big money purchasing the machine in Oregon, no sale tax. I love my new machine, it has an auto threader!!! Life is good!

Comment by tallmama on April 27, 2010 at 11:00am: Linda, you crack me up. It's the sewer's dream to have a serger sewing machine. So nice and neat and tidy and gives the best finishes to every kind of fabric. Can't sew a bathing suit or stretchy fabric any other way and have it look good -- in my humble opinion.