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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 Lynne on November 19, 2010 at 11:25pm: It doesn't really take days for divisions to fill up...it is done relatively quickly....it is just that processing does take time...this is when they do their paper work, get immunizations, there is just a lot to do, they learn basic rules...so those first two weeks they just have a lot going on.

Comment by Lynne on November 19, 2010 at 11:23pm: If you are in the same division your PIR will be the same

Comment by Lynne on November 19, 2010 at 11:22pm: I know y'all are in a hurry but you have your PIR group if you know it like here and you have Boot Camp for Moms too...this early in you aren't going to find lots of people in your divisions...you will get a bigger burst of people in weeks 3 to 5 and then again towards the end...

Comment by Kate-Ship 12/Div 039 on November 19, 2010 at 10:00pm: Love the countdown clock.

Comment by Vanessa on November 19, 2010 at 9:05pm: Bubba's mom & LoveOurRecruit, my husband is in the same division... did you start a group? I searched for it but didn't see one...

Comment by Bubba's Mom on November 19, 2010 at 7:00pm: I am not sure of what my sons PIR date is so I am just starting a group for ship2 div908 would love any and all imput on helping new people with loved ones in this ship and div share information and good conversation

Comment by navyfam on November 19, 2010 at 6:03pm: Does anyone know if PIR is delayed if they are waiting for the division to fill up?

Comment by Lynne on November 19, 2010 at 3:31pm: Let me give you the pros and cons as I see them of groups vs. discussion forums. I am sure Jessica and Dianne have some feelings about this as well. I was the leader of my PIR group and I started discussion forums from the very beginning for each division in our PIR. We only had one division that ventured out and actually established a group on their own. It actually never really clicked because everyone used the discussion forums. It really kept the PIR group as the central focus. Even though you are in different divisions there are still a lot of similarities. Sometimes when you get involved in a divisional group you may get so focused on that you miss some things about your PIR group. That is just my opinion. Our PIR group was very close knit, we had relationships within and across divisions. Remember when your recruits graduate boot camp divisions mean less and they go to A-school with recruits from various divisions. So, many of us who knew each other have now found that in A-school our sailors have found each other. In fact, some of our parents and fiancees have actually provided temporary housing to others while they have been at A-school looking for apartments or visiting their sailors. So if you do establish groups outside of this PIR group...really work hard to make this your central focus, and consider having discussion forums for each division here. They are fun!!

Comment by Lynne on November 19, 2010 at 3:21pm: It looks like in this PIR group they are starting individual groups as well so feel free to start your group for division 908.