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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

Events

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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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PIR 1/14/2011

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This is for all of us who have recruits graduating from RTC on January 14th, 2011. Here we can all support eachother through the long separation and prepare to see our US Navy Sailors for the first time after RTC.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 111
Latest Activity: Jul 29, 2011

This PIR group includes Divisons 39-48, 908!Best of luck to all of them!

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Comment by navyfam on December 6, 2010 at 4:55pm: Blessed No problem...I know how easy it is to copy & paste & forget to delete...guess it's the Momma Bear in me! Plus I used to be the Team Admin for our son's club soccer team & many an email I had to edit before forwarding :) Have a great day

Comment by blessedsailorsmom ship12div 039 on December 6, 2010 at 4:44pm: Good looking out Navyfam... :)

Comment by blessedsailorsmom ship12div 039 on December 6, 2010 at 4:44pm: Thank you for your interest in our Blue Star Flag program and standing
by our troops. This request has been approved and we can deliver 5
flags to the address noted below over the next week.

We hope that you will continue to spread the word of the Blue Star Flag
and all that it represents. I would not be typing this letter if it were
not for the sacrifices and dedication of our military including
soldiers, families and supporters from around our nation. Tell everyone
about the Blue Star Flag and feel free to share our site with others.
In doing so, you are helping raise awareness of this special flag and
program.

Also, we would like to invite you to submit a testimonial or comment on
this page: http://www.mybluestarflag.com/comments It is purely
optional but it would help promote our program as well as your cause. In
addition, we have a dedicated stories section and we encourage our
supporters to share their stories with others. Here's the link:
http://www.mybluestarflag.com/story

Let me know if you have any questions and thank you again for your support..

Best,

Carl

Comment by blessedsailorsmom ship12div 039 on December 6, 2010 at 4:04pm: this was a responce to the email i sent in reguest for the service person flags, I heard abou it from sombody on this sit and inquired... I also heard we r supossed to hand it after battlestations. This will be our ceremony when we get the call !!! please pass this on to all your groups and even other branches God bless all <3 oh and is no money ... I can't say of no cost , because there is a big cost involved and its that of the service from our people.

Comment by Debbie2 on December 6, 2010 at 4:02pm: MissinShawn, yes, I'm sorry...I have recieved two letters from my son, actually 4 letters have come, 2 to me, 1 to his sister and 1 to dad!

Comment by Debbie2 on December 6, 2010 at 2:41pm: Tamme...my son arrived the same day and that is all I have recieved also, the "I am here" call!

Comment by DramaboysMom on December 6, 2010 at 2:36pm: Things to do Lake County IL
http://www.rink-side.com/calendar/
http://www.millenniumpark.org/parkevents/event.aspx?id=1203
http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/comingsoon/ not sure which movies will be on during Christmas Day, but keep checking.
http://www.chicago-theater.com/events_calendar.php?year=2010&mo... the only event that would work would be White Christmas at 2 pm on Christmas day.
Hope these help.

Comment by MinnesotaMom on December 6, 2010 at 2:32pm: Tamme,
I've only recievd the I'm here call and he arrived 11/09!

Comment by MinnesotaMom on December 6, 2010 at 2:31pm: MissinShawn,
I don't live in the area but there was a great post PIR report at http://www.navyformoms.com/profiles/blogs/just-back-from-pir. This gives us all a great idea of what to expect on PIR day and things to do....not sure about Christmas day however.