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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

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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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 mmaya1109 on November 24, 2010 at 8:46pm: yea i miss my fiance too alot alot .. are yall all ready to go to the graduation

Comment by susanm(ZEKESMOM) on November 24, 2010 at 8:22pm: I haven't received anything from my son either except for the form letter. I'm sure he's fine, I just miss him.

Comment by mmaya1109 on November 24, 2010 at 7:13pm: hey everyone i am kind new to this site but i totally love the countown!!! and has anyone heard anything from the guys on ship 12 div 041 bec i havent gotten any letters yet from my fiance and its driving me crazy not knowing anything ....

Comment by navyfam on November 24, 2010 at 7:02pm: Ash & Bluewarrior, best of luck in your pregnancies! Trust your Mommy instincts! As you well know most of us are Moms and our babies are grown, so we have a lot of experience! And you can shoot me a question anytime. Bluewarrior you can friend me...sometimes you don't want to ask your Mom or the doctor. Been there, done that! Mine in BC is 20 (daughter) and I have a 16 yr. boy!

Comment by bluewarriorlady on November 24, 2010 at 6:46pm: Vanessa - I'm sure that you will receive letters soon! I'm pretty sure that they are alright. But hopefully they do run the mail on Friday! The anticipation sucks, I know!

Comment by bluewarriorlady on November 24, 2010 at 6:45pm: Ash - We are having a boy! If your instinct is telling you it's a boy, that is probably what it is! We wanted a boy, and my intuition told me the same thing. Yes -- getting these letters def. helped! I cried because he said he has never missed me so much and that he is homesick. I can't wait til we see our men!

Comment by Vanessa on November 24, 2010 at 6:38pm: I am so jealous of those of you who got letters today :-(
Obviously the mail isn't running tomorrow, but I am hoping for Friday. I'm glad to hear they are doing well and congratulations on hearing from them!

Comment by AshJewell on November 24, 2010 at 6:38pm: Bluewarriorlady-I'm not positive on what I'm having but my mommy instinct is I'm having a boy. Plus every gender quiz, and the chinese birth chart all say I'm having a boy! Do you know what you're having!! Congrats on getting letters, I got my first one today (7pages long) it def. helps my emotions. (ragging hormones dont help as you would know!)

Comment by bluewarriorlady on November 24, 2010 at 6:26pm: Good news everyone! i received about 7 letters today in the mail from my husband! (Ship 12, Div 041). He is doing well. He says that the food is great. The first couple of days started out rough but everyone is generally okay.
@Ash - Thanks so much! I will need support from someone who understands! Do you know if you are having a girl or boy?

Comment by navyfam on November 24, 2010 at 6:18pm: Lynne & Dianne, thanks for the encouragement! You two are such a blessing....Blessed they are right we all have good days and days when we need a lift. I am still looking forward to the 1st "real" letter and anxiously go to the mail box each day! In some ways I'm not having as rough a time; problably 2 reasons: 1 my daughter has lived away from home for most of the 2 yrs. since she turned 18 and 2. It's a daughter! Not that I don't love and miss her; but you know the realationship between a mother and son is just something special...in a different way.