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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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RTC Graduation

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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 November 28, 2010 at 3:08pm: Thanks Bluewarriorlady! I just wish I had told our son who stayed home from church to answer the phone regardless & especially area cod 847! It said US Govt on the caller ID & my husband is an accountant so our son figured it was for Dad. She didn't leave a message so I am hoping everything is ok! What do you think ladies? Especially you veteran Moms????

Comment by joyceann on November 28, 2010 at 3:04pm: I missed a call from my son last Saturday morning. I had the phone in my hoodie pocket and was blowing leaves and didn't hear it ring. I felt like the worst mom in the whole wide world, and then I started thinking of how he was feeling and I cried and cried into the leaves! We haven't blown the leaves since!! I was having a really good day yesterday-didn't cry at all-until we went to the home improvement store to buy pain to redo my sons room. A lady I work with said "what are you shopping for?" The floodgates opened. I sure don't appreciate the roller coaster ride at this point.

Comment by bluewarriorlady on November 28, 2010 at 3:02pm: navyfam -Yeah. 847 is the area code for the Great Lakes area. I googled it a while back to make sure I picked up for the right area code (I get random calls from random area codes all the time.) I'm sorry that you missed your call! :-(

Comment by bluewarriorlady on November 28, 2010 at 3:01pm: Hey Ash -- from one preggo to another, I think it is totally normal. In fact, I felt angry today. My emotions are all over the place! And you are right...pregnancy doesn't help the situation when you are emotional to begin with! We will get through this. Sometimes I cry a lot..sometimes I can't bring myself to. Other times I am really mad that I have to be stuck here while he has to go through the roughs and tumbles of bootcamp, and I can't be there to help him. I know how you feel. But just count down the days with me! We are almost there!

Comment by navyfam on November 28, 2010 at 2:56pm: I am so bummed! Peetty sure I missed a call from our girl! I had a missed call on my cell & a missed call at home. We were at church....good place to be & I had my phone on vibrate and was probably walking out. Then she tried the home phone & our son who was home sick didn't answer because he didn't recognize the number...U.S. Govt. 847 area code.

Comment by navyfam on November 28, 2010 at 2:53pm: Joyceann-I know it kinda scary to think about huh? Our friend thinks he figured out who the agent taking pictures was & it was a jogger dressed in regular workout gear!

Comment by joyceann on November 28, 2010 at 2:44pm: Navyfam-oh my-pictures of me???? When you said that, all kinds of things flashed through my mind! I am notorious for weeding my flowers in shorts and tshirt and no bra! (I figure if nobody can see me-I may as well be comfortable!) Maybe I should start being more discreet huh?

Comment by Kate-Ship 12/Div 039 on November 28, 2010 at 1:59pm: Ash, very normal. I do not feel all the emotions that you are feeling, only sad that I cannot pick up the phone and call my boy. This is however a good forum to rant, grieve, be sad, be happy, be proud...be with people who are in your boat.

Comment by AshJewell on November 28, 2010 at 1:47pm: JessicaB-Sailor Mom- thank you for the reassurance. I just hate feeling this way, I don't want to be mad. But I'm hoping it will pass. At least I know it's normal! Thanks for the support.

Comment by navyfam on November 28, 2010 at 12:33pm: Joyceann-you are funny! No picture taking for you, but they probably have of you! Lol. We had a friend whose neighbor was being investigated by the FBI & they came & talked to him and showed him all the pictures they had of him...plus they said we wanted to talk to you because your background is squeaky clean! Kinda scary how much the FBI knows.