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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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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

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Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

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PIR 4/8/2011 Alum Group!

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DIVISIONS: 121-128 807, 808 920,921

This group started on 2/8/11 and we survived boot camp, laughter and tears. Now our recruits are sailors and headed in many directions, but we'll continue to support one another throughout!

Location: GL
Members: 129
Latest Activity: Nov 29, 2011

We DID it ladies!!! We made it through BOOT CAMP and beyond!! What a group!

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Comment by mumziepooh on February 19, 2011 at 12:15pm: Ragdoll - I cracked up when you posted what your son said. I didn't want to tell texasmom that, but I am glad you did. Heartfelt, that one! I am not posting what my son said..................I am just shaking my head. Sometimes, they are just too much like me!

Comment by pam(ship 11 Div 123) on February 19, 2011 at 12:13pm: My son used the words hard and challenging...not quite what he would write. The rest of it sounded like him...like being homesick and about loving his girlfriend. They must all learn to put the line through the zeros because my son did the same thing.

Comment by SR Mom Ship 11 Div 124 on February 19, 2011 at 12:07pm: Yes, I noticed a change in handwriting as well. He put a line through all of his zeros but some of the words he used like "I miss and love you dearly" seemed a bit off but I will wait for his own letter. Thanks!

Comment by Ragdollrae HM A school SA on February 19, 2011 at 12:04pm: LOL Mumz! I am with you. While my son always printed legibly, this handwriting is almost a typing font it is so perfect! Amazed me!

Also - my son's note was definitely from him. Especially the part when he wrote.. "BTW... BOOTCAMP BLOWS!!" LOL I laughed so hard!

Comment by mumziepooh on February 19, 2011 at 12:01pm: Oh - I have figured out why it takes so long to get the first letter - when I got that envelope in the mail - I did NOT recognize the handwriting. It was so.....well.......LEGIBLE! The Navy is a miracle place. He took 24 years of chicken scratch and changed it to something a human can read. WOW! I guess that takes time.

Comment by mumziepooh on February 19, 2011 at 12:00pm: texasmom - what my son wrote on the bottom of his form letter is TOTALLY his own. I am more than a little worried about the salty language sailors use - he used to keep it down around me......lol. Seriously - it was him. He just wrote what he thought and I cracked up.

Comment by ntz4laa (HM Mom) on February 19, 2011 at 11:55am: texasmom, Navy Corpsmen support both the Navy and the Marines. They call it blue or green. So, anywhere the Marines go, so go our corpsmen.

Comment by texasmom Ship 11 Div 179 on February 19, 2011 at 11:37am: Oh yes, it is very long away. I can't wait to see him. I read on another group that a corpman, (That is what my so is going in for) was shipped to afghanistan and he was injured. I didn't know our Navy guys went to Afghanistan. I must be unaware of where are they send our guys. That has kinda put a damper on my day. I will continue to pray and not think of the neg, maybe that will brighten my day. I have to go for now my daughter wants me to take her to ride her horse. Maybe that will get my mind off of it.

Comment by Riptide11/128 on February 19, 2011 at 11:30am: Texasmom,

I'm with you...yes, one of the hardest parts of this ordeal is the "not knowing" on a day to day basis. If they're having a bad day, you can't make their favorite cookies to cheer them up, can't give them a hug and tell them, "I'm here, tell me if there's something I can do to make this better". You're NOT there for them, we're at home (here) for them, but for some of us, that's a very, very long ways away!

Comment by diannep on February 19, 2011 at 11:23am: texasmom: Those of us veterans have all "been there." I thought I was so ready for my son to go (23 at the time)...but cried like a baby on the way home from dropping him off. Then I found that I watched the phone like a hawk....mailbox...and would do the happy dance when hearing from him! Lack of communication with our children is VERY HARD for us moms. Like they are ripped away from us! You are not alone in your feelings here....all can relate. So use this board to vent if you are having a sad day...or a happy day! We are hear to help you get through it...or to celebrate with you!