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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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OCS Graduate Moms

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For those who have graduated from Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI or who are currently attending there.

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Latest Activity: Feb 3

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Comment by OkSuzy on August 21, 2012 at 7:53am: Susank...our LO is submarine...yours?

Comment by M's mom on August 20, 2012 at 9:22pm: Welcome wandak,

My son is also at OCS right now, in Class 16-12 with 1proudmama's son. They will graduate Sept 7. We are counting down now! What is worst for those of us at home those first few weeks, is not hearing from them, but just keep telling yourself "NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS."    If they get sick or injured, or they fail something badly enough to get "rolled" back into a later class, or Heaven forbid, they are coming home, they will be allowed to call you and tell you. If you do not hear from them, that means they are still in the program and doing fine!   After the fourth week RLP inspection, they will get weekend email and pay phone priviledges, and that helps a lot!

As others have said, just write lots of letters! But be sure you know the rules! You should only send LETTERS in plain, white envelopes. No stickers, or decorated envelopes, and definitely NO musical cards! Some of the drill instructors forbid any loose enclosures at all, such as photos or cartoons. If you want to send pics or cartoons, photocopy them onto the same size paper as the letter, or print them into the letter. Do NOT send ANY food, candy, gum, books, magazines, or gifts of any kind, or it will be confiscated as contraband, and the candidate, even though innocent, will be punished!  Only AFTER they become Candidate Officers (Candios) at nine weeks, THEN can they receive care packages from home with goodies in them called Candio Boxes. Make sure that anybody you give your loved one's mailing address to knows these rules!! In Class 16-12 somebody's dear Auntie sent him cookies at about week three, and he had to do 800 (that's eight hundred) pushups as punishment! So make sure everybody knows to send ONLY plain letters at this point.

Comment by susank on August 20, 2012 at 9:08pm: Ok Suzy is he using his nuke training on a sub? Or carrier?

Comment by OkSuzy on August 20, 2012 at 9:01pm: wandak...join your LO's facebook page. It spells everything out. We are very new to the Navy as well and the people on fb can answer lots and lots of questions! Good Luck!

Comment by OkSuzy on August 20, 2012 at 8:59pm: 1proudmama...my son recently completed OCS and is currently in Charleston in Nuke school. He is enjoying it...lots of work as well as memorization but he says it is interesting!

Comment by Anna on August 19, 2012 at 10:54pm: That's wonderful wandak!!! You will probably see me on there now and again!!!

Comment by wandak on August 19, 2012 at 10:16pm: 1proudmama, thanks I will be sending him lots of letters.

Anna, yes he is in 02-13. I found the facebook page for his class and am already learning from it.

Comment by Anna on August 19, 2012 at 7:25pm: 1proudmama,

Congratulations to your son and his class graduating soon!!! I'm looking forward to their graduation because that means my daughter's class becomes candios and then their graduation is NEXT!!!!! Hopefully my daughter gets her letter accepting her to Pensacola for flight school. Until she actually gets her letter nothing is set in stone but that is the plan!!!!

Comment by Anna on August 19, 2012 at 6:59pm: Wandak,

Is your son in 02-13? If you look in the discussions up above there is a link to the friends and family support group on Facebook. Also join the group pages for 01-13 and 17-12. That way you'll get a little look ahead at what your son will be doing next. Proudmama is right - - - send lots, and lots of letters from home. My daughter said those were the things that got her through those first couple weeks. She would read them over again just before going to bed!! I would find a lot of cute funny pictures on facebook and copy them onto the letters I was sending her. Anything to bring a little joy to her day!!!

1proudmama,

What class is your fella in? My daughter is 17-12C and God willing will graduate the end of September!!!