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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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Alumni PIR 9/7/2012

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A Place for loved ones of SR in PIR 09/07

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 119
Latest Activity: Feb 12, 2013

Welcome to PIR 09/07/2012

CLICK ME for the link to the RTC WEBSITE

CLICK ME for the PIR 09/07/2012 MEET and GREETS

OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance. Please take the timeto read the OPSEC and Community Guidelines. A quick note here: Last Names of Sailors/Recruits are not allowed on this site. If it is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended. First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture.

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Comment by jlamommy on July 26, 2012 at 4:11pm: yay for cjohnson!

Comment by Cjohnsonusc on July 26, 2012 at 4:10pm: Two letters today!!!!! I'm still crying best feeling in the world

Comment by MOMOF2BOYS on July 26, 2012 at 1:32pm: Thank you Diane!! That was my biggest worry. I would be devisted if I missed the call. We have a wedding Sat Aug 4th way up in the mountains of Lake Placid and worried I wouldnt hear phone or no reception. So technically if he arrived on 7-11, it would be 2 1/2 weeks into boot camp. Hope I'm safe!!

Comment by diannep on July 26, 2012 at 1:16pm: MOMOF2BOYS: In addition to Angie's info, some of the larger PIR groups start BattleStations a day or two earlier than the smaller groups sometimes, In that case, the I'm a Sailor calls can even come more than a week before PIR. Your SR will know (down the road...too early now) his/her division's BattleStations date. It is an overnight drill and they get to call the next afternoon--some may miss their call if they have "watch"--but should call later or the next day. That will be a great call!

And, if and when they can make any calls is always up to the RDCs in their division. They can have a call scheduled (even write that date to you) and lose it. Maybe the whole division lost it over something, maybe a few individuals lost theirs....all up to the RDCs. Long way of saying...calls are very random so keep that phone with you, even if in the bathroom or checking your mailbox for letters! Believe it or not, ladies have missed their SRs' calls doing both of these things. Very sad....

Comment by MOMOF2BOYS on July 26, 2012 at 12:33pm: Thank you Angie!!

Comment by MOMOF2BOYS on July 26, 2012 at 9:55am: Can anyone tell me aound a bout day that we will be getting our "Im a Sailor!!" call? If I'm not mistaken, that will be our only call til graduation right?

Comment by diannep on July 26, 2012 at 8:27am: Continuing prayers, Lala...

sharbear: Yes, bootcamp is the name of the "entire experience." It is broken down within that time into processing days, training weeks, more "freed up" days after BattleStations before PIR. Of course, the training weeks are the most important and where your SRs will be tested!

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 26, 2012 at 7:57am: Good Morning everyone. For everyone who has been praying for my Sailor thank you so much. I can't even begin to tell you how much we appreciate that. She seems to be feeling a little better but had to have a CAT scan yesterday. We will hopefully hear good news from that today and maybe by Monday she will be able to go from SIQ to LLD. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery. Thanks so so much, Lora (aka lala)

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 25, 2012 at 11:20pm: Craig...I am going to "pull" these posts and put them up in the Discussion Forum one :-)

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 25, 2012 at 11:03pm: Ohhh, you would ask me that! LOL

I actually think it is "900 Division". I can't find anything else but that...stand by.