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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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Centennial PIR Group (07/01/11)

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For those with Sailors who participated in the Recruit Training Command Centennial PIR on July 1, 2011.

Members: 74
Latest Activity: Jun 29, 2012

Congratulations new Sailors! We are so very proud of you.

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Comment by MNSunshine on May 13, 2011 at 12:07am: Thanks BluAnjel. Have a safe trip home. Enjoy your "presents."

Comment by BluAnjel NoLongerNavyMom on May 12, 2011 at 11:41pm: Ship 09 Div 214 - I started a group if anyone else has a loved one in that group. So relieved to find out the address I had from the recruiter was correct!! :=) Been sending letters everyday while I've been on the road. Can't wait to get home and go thru her box and read the letter (my son's not real cooperative on reading a 4-page or so letter over the phone apparently!)

Comment by MNSunshine on May 12, 2011 at 11:32pm: Welcome new members!!

Comment by MNSunshine on May 12, 2011 at 11:28pm: Thanks ochaos.

Awesome BluAnjel! What ship and div did you get?

Comment by BluAnjel NoLongerNavyMom on May 12, 2011 at 10:54pm: Yay MN - we did get the same PIR, got the letter today Thanks for starting the group

Comment by ochaos on May 12, 2011 at 9:48pm: Denise - I put it into the discussion area above and will make sure it stays in the area to be easily viewed and found. Thank you for posting this info.

Comment by diannep on May 12, 2011 at 8:54pm: Thanks, Sunshine. You are doing a great job as group creator! :-)

Comment by MNSunshine on May 12, 2011 at 5:44pm: diannep --

I'll do my best!

Comment by diannep on May 12, 2011 at 4:04pm: The info that Denise wrote below is new info. Normally extras are allowed. So, Sunshine, please make sure you post this periodically on here so all know. Maybe you want to copy it into a discussion above so that you can refer people to it there?

Comment by ochaos on May 12, 2011 at 2:04pm: A word of advice for you is to not make any travel arrangements until at least half way through BC as many things can change the PIR date for your recruit such as injuries, discharge, illness and many other things. Do not stress about this, I made my reservations 1 week out from PIR and got great rates on everything. When thinking about flying look into flying into Milwaukee as it can save you lots of money and is the same distance to the base as from Chicago. You are just beginning your journey and will learn so much on this site, if you know what job - Nuke, SAR, etc. join those groups also and you will learn and make more new friends.

Remember that this journey is just as much about you being in training as it is for our recruits. Things change, schedules change, they can not always tell you everything, there will be times when you do not hear from them for a while, there will be ups and downs and everything in between, they will see people drop, leave the service, rollback and finish their training. Focus on today and learn not to worry about tomorrow. Always be encouraging and uplifting even when your heart is breaking, they do not need to be worrying about us and how we are dealing with things. This journey is a difficult one for the ones at home and not knowing what is going on and hard to grasp when you are still so new to it, relax and breathe and it will get better.

Live your life as normal as possible, come to this site for support but do not stress over phone calls, letters and how they are doing. Phone calls get missed or not made, it is not the end of the world even though it may feel like it at that moment. We have wonderful recruits and who are on a new journey in their life and we need to be okay with the not knowing what is going on and not hearing from them as this may happen from time to time during their time in the Navy, the sooner you are okay with this the better for them as they do not need to know that we are stressing or worried about them.

If you are sad, lonely, missing them, angry or many other emotions come here where we know how you feel and we can lift you up.