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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 ellen0502 on July 24, 2012 at 12:06am: no sharbear there is nothing wrong with keeping the box, it is however just an empty box, but it does have my sons handwriting on it and it was the first "contact" I had with him since 2/22 so yeah I kept it. I now store all the letters, stuff from PIR, and pictures from PIR in it until I can get his scrap book going.

Comment by Proudmomof2navysailors Div 285 on July 23, 2012 at 11:00pm: Thanks Lala I think I will leave that FB group. :) I'm not sure, but it feels like they are sort of reeling you in and then gonna try to sell you something, hahahaha.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 23, 2012 at 10:10pm: Proudmomof2, I only found one with this PIR date. It is a closed group and I am not a member of it. All I know is the people who started that group seem to be starting a PIR and DIV group for every PIR. Not sure what their reason is.

We prefer for someone who actually has a recruit in a PIR Group to start the closed facebook group and someone who has a recruit from a specific division to start those groups as well. It is important to know how you came to find out about a group. Anyone can start any group on facebook. So some people will do a search for their date, find a group and join it. There is no way to know who is in the group or why. So just be careful. If you are not comfortable leave the group. You can start your own group and invite others from this page to join. If someone seems like they shouldn't be there you can remove them from the group.

No matter what you do be careful what you post. And always always come back to this page and post comments and let other hear about your letters and calls and ask questions here. There are some moms and other members who refuse to use Facebook and they would like to get to know everyone here as well. So it is important to stay connected to them.

but please join us on our facebook group. there are others there who have the same PIR and I am sure they would love to get to know you. You will have to ask to join but it doesn't take long to get accepted. https://www.facebook.com/groups/327167160695549/

Comment by sharbear36(ship 9 div 288) on July 23, 2012 at 9:36pm: Ellen, is it wrong to still have the box? lol No glitter yet, I'm going to warn him first in tonights letter. :)

Comment by happyfeet(ship 09/Div 288) on July 23, 2012 at 9:10pm: Yaay! Got my form letter! No extra writing, though. Now if that dang box would come I'd be all set!

Sharbear~ hang in there, yours is coming!

Lala~ thanks for the info, I appreciate it! When I tried to join and saw the lock, I got nervous!

Comment by ellen0502 on July 23, 2012 at 8:28pm: Sharbear: I just looked at my sons box (yes I have kept it) and the form letter from him. He was in the last division to be formed for his TG and was on p-hold. He got there on Feb 22 box shipped the 23rd I received it the 29th. His form letter was postmarked March 2nd I didn't get it until March 9th, so it was 16 days from when he left.

Hang in there, I bet you get it this week...send no glitter yet. LOL

Comment by Proudmomof2navysailors Div 285 on July 23, 2012 at 7:55pm: Lalal - I also joined a FB page and now I'm a little paranoid. It's called PIR 9/7/2012. It seems legit but I honestly cannot remember how I maneuvered my way to the That pages. Lol I have been reading stuff everywhere so, who knows how I got. I tend to do the same thing when I'm driving. Haha. Can you advise me as to whether this is a legit page?

Comment by sharbear36(ship 9 div 288) on July 23, 2012 at 7:26pm: Lala that is AWESOME!! That envelope/card comment going in next letter :)

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 23, 2012 at 7:22pm: sharbear, what you could do is write your recruit and tell him that the recruiter said he would be happy to call the "powers that be" and ask them to make sure he writes you a letter. I bet he would put pen to paper very quickly and get a letter to you saying to please not do that lol. Or tell him if he doesn't write soon you are going to send a musical card in a bright pink envelope with hearts and flower drawn all over the back lol. Maybe then he would get one in the mail lol. Try not to worry, I bet this week will be much better for letters for all of you.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 23, 2012 at 7:10pm: em'smom Okay, that facebook page is fine. There are more than two hundred Navy Mom, wives etc including myself. There are lots of veteran moms there to help answer questions and lots who have had PIR in the last couple of months and several from every PIR group now waiting to graduate. You do not have to be a member of this site (Navy for Moms) to join it. It may be that someone from your PIR group invited you to join. You do have to request to be in the group because it is closed so that people who are not members cannot read the posts. So it is a little safer but you still need to not give specific dates for ship or Sailor movement and not share too many details about your Sailors personal information. There is also a Navy For Moms Facebook group and a Navy Moms PIR group that appear to be pretty safe. I am also part of those groups. So it will be fine to join us there if you like :-)