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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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PCSing/ Moving

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Lets talk about moving, real estate, how to pack, tips, horror stories, the good, the bad, DITY, Semi DITY and commercial moves; and share helpful websites.

Website: http://eek-moving-again.blogspot.com/
Members: 144
Latest Activity: Dec 26, 2017

So much information!

Be sure to look through all the Discussion topics in the Discussion Forum - your question may have been addressed there. Post your questions in the Comments section, or create a new Discussion for a more general question/topic. Welcome to the group!

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Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on November 8, 2010 at 1:28pm: What do you mean by DLA?

Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on October 26, 2010 at 10:38am: Also welcome Jessie229

Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on October 26, 2010 at 10:38am: I know we had to weight the vehicle regardless. Of how we moved our things.

Welcome!
Lovnlifeforever! (also i'm from Peoria, IL not to far from princeton, IL)

Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on October 22, 2010 at 10:46am: Just found websites very good stuff!!!
http://www.baseofpreference.com/index.php (some pages set funny score down)

http://www.mybaseguide.com/

Ladies Empower your self by knowledge! Safe and Happy moving!

Comment by Anti M on October 20, 2010 at 3:07pm: I've known wives who did it though, jumped the gun in verbals. Then he got stationed on the other coast!

Comment by MRs L* on October 20, 2010 at 1:44pm: yes a pain it is.. i was reluctant to even take the time to search for places at first.. i did a little looking though, but def would not make any type of deposit or anything until i see the hard copy of his orders. that would be insane.

Comment by Anti M on October 20, 2010 at 1:18pm: Yeah, BM is a short school, so he may be one of the exceptions. You can't do much without the hard copy orders, and never purchase tickets or put money on deposits until the orders are cut and you've seen them. You should try to get a copy of his orders and a POA in hand. That will make doing anything official much easier.

A lot of what I just said was for the benefit of the folks reading and not posting. Verbal orders aren't worth the paper they're written on. I've seen changes more than once.

Once he's in A school, you should be able to get everything arranged. A pain, isn't it?

Comment by MRs L* on October 20, 2010 at 12:55pm: yes.. i asked him over and over he said hes positive. so he must be one of the rare ones i guess. hes a BM if that helps. i havent looked into PPO yet. just asking around

Comment by Anti M on October 20, 2010 at 10:29am: Wait... PIR 10/29? How do you know he's going to Little Creek? It is extremely rare for people to have final orders while in boot camp.

No wonder no one at PPO can help you, he doesn't have hard copy orders yet, does he?

Comment by MRs L* on October 20, 2010 at 9:57am: we cant replace the bulky furniture its brand new. the things in storage are mostly mine and he has a few odd and ends at his house, but has a big huge dresser that goes in our daughters room. so its a big of a toss up. i believe it would be easier for the navy to move the stuff from the storage seeing as its alot heavier that one dresser. i looked and saw that DITY pays 85% in advance. im thinking we should get a u-haul and do it our selves. its only about a 5 hour drive from where we live now. Plus we have a big dodge ram so we are able to move lots of stuff with that aswell.