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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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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 pinkaboo202 - Ship 07, Div 47 on January 6, 2011 at 12:28am: @LoveOurRecruit - I don't have a definite answer for you, but if I were in your shoes, I don't think I would risk it.

Comment by diannep on January 6, 2011 at 12:14am: Yes, 39-42 should be going tomorrow.

Comment by MJ on January 6, 2011 at 12:11am: I believe it is tomorrow the 6th .

Comment by diannep on January 6, 2011 at 12:10am: They start tomorrow night.

Comment by diannep on January 6, 2011 at 12:08am: MJ: I don't think anyone is going through tonight, are they?

Comment by MJ on January 6, 2011 at 12:06am: Prayers to all of our recruits going through Battlestation 21. May they all pass their final test.

We all can't wait to see our sons, boyfriends, husbands and grandsons next Friday!

Comment by Alysia-Redsmom (VQ-4/ATO) on January 5, 2011 at 9:43pm: Those are both great videos~ thanks Ash & Navyfam!

My husband also found this website that has some BS21 videos and pics. You could use some of the pics for scrapbooks for your SR.

http://www.rickbluhm.com/portfolio%20pages/BS21.html

Enjoy & have fun :-)

Comment by navyfam on January 5, 2011 at 9:28pm: Ash-that's a good video! Enjoyed the others you posted as well...thanks.

Here is another one...Battlestations that CNN did a couple of years back.

Comment by AshJewell on January 5, 2011 at 7:12pm: I know I've posted videos already today, but I found this one, and it shows BS21!! It was made just for Navyformoms.com.

Comment by ProudGMBarb on January 5, 2011 at 7:06pm: diannep: I agree with your theory about getting sick / the shots they receive. Vaccinations always shock the system and a lot of times bring out he illness they are intended to prevent! Our grdson also is a pretty "keep it natural" kind of guy. He said the shots were the only thing is was not looking forward to when he enlisted. But,heck, think of the thousands of recruits that have gone through this and get through just fine. Both adrenaline and Navy Pride enable those young bodies to do things beyond what we thought they could do!

Prayers and best wishes to everyone for BattleStations!

Nicole: Continuing to send love and healing energy for your SR. Trust that all will work at as it should.