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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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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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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 Alysia-Redsmom (VQ-4/ATO) on November 24, 2010 at 4:09pm: @Ash_Nukewife ~ so happy for you to have received a letter. I am praying to get one anyday now myself.

Comment by AshJewell on November 24, 2010 at 3:53pm: I GOT MY FIRST LETTER TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Karla~ (S 12 D 042 - PIR 1/14) on November 24, 2010 at 3:38pm: Blessedsailorsmom - It will be okay. I really believe that. Better than okay! Our boys are safe and well cared for. For that I am so thankful! And - it may be a blessing in disguise that we don't hear from them for awhile. We might not like what we hear! How much better to hear their voice once they're starting to gain confidence. I'll pray for you!

Comment by Tamme on November 24, 2010 at 3:16pm: Glad to see so many people on line for 1/14/11 PIR. I've always loved the countdown clock. Anyone have a son in Ship 7, Division 45?

Comment by blessedsailorsmom ship12div 039 on November 24, 2010 at 3:00pm: so sorry karla!!! im lookin into the calll forwarding to anyhow, IT was a good idea....I havnt heard from my son at all and having a horrible day, I cryied alot last few days and I see my self spiraling down, I wonder if im just depressed? I believe in God and have faith but yet feel so lonley and just want to hear his voice! my husband is being of no help right now as far as moral support and I just want to go to sleep till Jan 14 th!!! I would be so much better if i could just hear my sons voice!!! it was just him and my girls for many years that I feel so empty.Gosh I sound like a coocoo lady sorry for venting I just CANT do that around here and i feel like im going to blow.

Comment by Alice on November 24, 2010 at 2:57pm: My boyfriends mom received his box yesterday but did not get the official letter with his address at all yet. She has tried calling the recruiters office to ask about his address and tentative PIR date, but he has no picked up nor called back yet. Any suggestions as to why that may be?

Comment by diannep on November 24, 2010 at 2:44pm: Karla: There really is no guaranteed 3rd week calls...some call earlier, some later. But if he needs any more info for security reasons, he will call again (hopefully he can't get it all himself and then he can call....). So sorry you missed it but I think most of us have stories such as yours....it will make that next call that much more special! Hang in there...

Comment by Alysia-Redsmom (VQ-4/ATO) on November 24, 2010 at 1:44pm: 50 days and counting ~ and let me tell you I am! I have lite my blue candle in the absence of my SR for this 1st holiday :( It will be hard but well worth it in the end. I am so anxious for a brief phone call from him just to hear his voice. I am with you Karla ~ my cell phone NEVER leaves my presence, ever!

Comment by Karla~ (S 12 D 042 - PIR 1/14) on November 24, 2010 at 11:56am: Soooo - call forwarding to my cell was a great idea except that I plugged it in to charge in another room during the night. I always up pretty early but my boy called at 5:54am and I missed it because the home phone didn't ring! I was so sad! He sounded good, said he needed more information and was sorry he missed us. Said he could get the info so he wouldn't be able to call again but he'd write letters. Would this have been his 3-week call? I hope and pray it wasn't since no one else has received theirs yet, right?! So the moral of this story? SLEEP WITH YOUR CELL PHONE (definitely shouting here)!

Comment by AshJewell on November 24, 2010 at 9:51am: @bluewarriorldy-Finally someone else pregnant and dealing with their hubby being at RTC! I am 4 (almost 5) Mos. Pregnant. The women on here have been a great deal of support for me, I encourgae you to take advantage of the wisdom and help they have to offer. I wouldn't be as stable as I am withouth N4M! If you need a fellow preggo to talk to I am always up for it!