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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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October Boot Camp Family

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This group is for Moms and families with loved ones leaving for Boot Camp in October any year. It was started with a group leaving in Oct. 2009.

Members: 137
Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

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Comment by Tabitha on November 22, 2009 at 8:39pm: Sorry about finance issues Jessica! I'll add you onto my long, extended prayer list :)

Comment by mtnmom on November 22, 2009 at 8:27pm: Lynn=
I will probably be at the Crosslands in Waukegan, still making my arrangements.
Gen

Comment by mtnmom on November 22, 2009 at 8:17pm: Lynn-
Thanks, that call ment so much to me, his voice was so DEEEEEEEP and he sounded so grown up. I really think this B C experience is doing him a lot of good.
Gem

Comment by Tabitha on November 22, 2009 at 8:13pm: Hang in there Darna! I'm praying for all of the ladies that haven't heard from your recruits yet! I know it's no fun hearing about EVERYONE else getting them :( We only have 37 DAYS LEFT UNTIL MEET~N~GREET! WE CAN DO THIS LADIES!!

Comment by mtnmom on November 22, 2009 at 8:05pm: Darna;
Hey you'll get to spend New Years with your kid. Not sure where mine will be, at home or on his way back to Great Lakes for A School. His PIR is 12/4.
Gen

Comment by mtnmom on November 22, 2009 at 7:53pm: Darna;
Hang in there gal, my son left on Oct 8, and I didn't my first call until Thursday, Nov 19. His division got to call home about two weeks before that, but he had his wisdom teeth pulled and so he didn't get to call. The waiting was a terrible thing to do to a mom that spoke to the kid at least once per day, usually 2 or 3 times. The wait was worth it.
Gen

Comment by Tabitha on November 22, 2009 at 4:46pm: home from church---it was awesome! going to write my baby right now!!

Comment by Tabitha on November 22, 2009 at 1:08pm: everyone on this site is a GREAT MOM! Don't ever think otherwise ladies!!! We are finally heading off to church here-we are in the process of finding a new building for our church, so we share the bldg w/another church and we have svcs in between their times :) Im sure it will be a GREAT service = )

Comment by Tabitha on November 22, 2009 at 11:55am: lol DebinMKC! Im not sure we're exactly ready for a brother or sister? LOL but i've thought about that too! Everything in God's timing-right? LOL I keep checking expedia and a few other airfare websites and im praying we can find a cheap flight to get him up there :) That would be the best Christmas gift for the grandparents!

Comment by Tabitha on November 22, 2009 at 11:07am: it certainly would be alot easier trip w/o my 2 year old and plus his parents miss their grandson SO MUCH! And christopher misses them as well! So, im very torn!