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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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******HI, I am Sherri, and am now the administrator of this group, Sherri(ship9,div10) if anyone needs to reach me, please find my picture icon/name in the posts and click on it to contact me.******** Graduation 12/3/10

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Comment by MEsailormom on October 26, 2010 at 5:33pm: OK Diannep I went and read the rejoicing of 10/29 sailors calls and cried even more. It could have been the Anchors Aweigh playing in the background. We all sang it at our SRs going away party. That will be us soon! NukeMom pass the tissues!

Comment by Linda (navynucmom) on October 26, 2010 at 5:30pm: OK, i haven't been on here since last night. I just went back and read all the posts for the past 24 hours. Now, I'm crying! Again! It is nice to know we all feel this sense of loss and I'm not the only one. BUT, I am so thankful to have found this site so I can get the needed answers to most of my questions...I still don't know everything that's going on, but I get comfort from relating with each and every one of you! Thank You! :)

Comment by diannep on October 26, 2010 at 5:13pm: MEsailormom: Staying on this site helps alot with the anxiety...even in the middle of the night! You would be surprised that sometimes, people are on then. You are feeling the same thing that we all feel (felt). It gets much better so hang tight!

Comment by MEsailormom on October 26, 2010 at 5:10pm: Single Mom here too not enjoying the silence. Hard to have my best buddy so far away but am so proud I can't stand it. I got so spooked when I saw some of the SRs going home "early". I guess I never even considered that possibility. I had to stay off this site until I got control over that sneaky worry. Now I just cry and worry all night. My son was away on a schooner (we are from Maine) for 4 months during senior year so the lack of communication is not new to me. The anxiousness, howvere, is very new. Please let them call this week!

Comment by diannep on October 26, 2010 at 5:08pm: For some excitement....check PIR 10/29 group who are getting their I'm a Sailor calls.

Comment by diannep on October 26, 2010 at 5:07pm: lukesmom: There is a Meet N Greet discussion at the top of the page. You can participate there and you all decide if you want to stick with the Ramada M&G (offered to all Navy families for that PIR date...not just N4M's) or if you want to go to your own spot. SO check it out!

Comment by fyrwife (EM Nuke mom) on October 26, 2010 at 3:38pm: I have booked a room for us at the Navy Lodge, the rate is $65 per night and I understand it is a nice place to stay. It is within a couple of miles of the RTC. However, to stay at the Navy Lodge, the reservations need to be made in the name of the SR, you have to be military to stay there. We have also made our plane reservations on SW, however, I am going to go back on to see if I can get cheaper tickets.

Comment by Dorine - Shana's MA Mom on October 26, 2010 at 2:37pm: Also, we did get a pretty good deal on SW - $109 each way online. Right now by phone it's $170+ each way (we're less than 1500 mi. each way). Better deals online so I'm told.

Comment by Dorine - Shana's MA Mom on October 26, 2010 at 2:35pm: lukesmom - I feel the exact same way you do, as I'm sure a lot of moms do. I've cried at least once every day since my daughter's been gone the past 3 wks. I hope we get together at the "Meet & Greet." I haven't booked yet, but would like to stay at the Ramada Inn (4 mi. from base) and they do a M&G every week before PIR.

Comment by diannep on October 26, 2010 at 2:21pm: lukesmom: Single mom here also, although my husband didn't pass away until my boys were teenagers. I so admire those of you who raised your children alone most of their lives...wow....I had to jump into that job when mine were 15 and 17....fun teenage years!
Anyway....all that you and Luke have been through...it will just all come to such a great point of celebration on 12/3, him in that gorgeous Navy uniform...marching in unison with his division...Iooking like the grown man that he is...it is a time that compares to no other....and THEN...you will be back in communication with him...and can continuing bugging him with texts, emails, etc. HA! A School reconnects us to our children. It is great!