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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

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.

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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Alumni of PIR 7/15/11 TG 35 - 227-230, 816, 935

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Latest Activity: May 19, 2015

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Comment by Birdiejr on July 17, 2011 at 7:55pm: Yes there is..bring it!!! Congrats to ur SR.

Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on July 17, 2011 at 7:48pm: HI 7/15/11: I joined your group so I could ask a question. First Congratulations on your Sailors. My son will PIR this coming Friday 7/22. The question I want to ask is if any of you stayed at the RAMADA. I read that there is a strange odor there and I am wondering if it is still a problerm. We are staying there starting this Wednesday and wonder if I should bring a room deodorizer spray with me.

Comment by diannep on July 16, 2011 at 9:27am: Lindee: You got great advice here from the ladies. If YOU have the cell phone, then your son can reach you. He can use a phone card, or there will be families there who will let them borrow their cells, as Sandy said. Of course, by now, I'm hoping that you are there and have spent time with him. Please post when you can and let us know what happened!

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on July 16, 2011 at 12:24am: Lindee, You could just go to the airport and wait. I am sure there will be other Sailors/Navy families who will let him use their cell phone to call. Or he can call from a phone booth there. If qit were me. I would grab dinner and just head out to the airport.

Question!! is it you who does not have a cell phone or your son?

Comment by elizabeth on July 16, 2011 at 12:06am: Lindee, what airport is he going to? We are going to Midway around 3:00 AM, we may have to have him paged if we can't get a gate pass without him present, since the USO is past security. Our son wasn't 100% sure which airline and he said when he gets to the airport he can call. Not sure why we are going so early but he did seem like he wanted us to come and be with him since he doesn't leave until later AM. I know this doesn't help much.

Comment by LINDEE SR'S MOM on July 15, 2011 at 11:44pm: don't know what we are supposed to do!!!! Not sure of the time to go to the airport. My son wasn't sure of the time and now he can't get in touch with us due to no cell phone, any advice?

Comment by lil_mermaid on July 15, 2011 at 11:00pm: an absoloutly perfect day. oh how i wish they get overnight liberty though.

next weekend :)

Comment by diannep on July 15, 2011 at 10:55pm: Ha, BoosMom! I knew it would be "a while" before they would come off of Cloud 9 and respond! :-)

Ok, for all of those going to the airport tonight or in the morning to hang out with your sailors....have a wonderful visit...get ready for happy tears as the people in the airport are so wonderful to your sailors....some even giving standing ovations as the sailors board the planes. You will feel pride like you have never felt before....such a great thing! I missed this with my son (newbie that didn't know about airport visits) but hearing the stories that I have heard...tears....such a great thing.

So-- hoping that you all are getting a couple of hours of sleep right now before heading to the airport! Remember....USO at Ohare is where they should be....but if you are going to Midway, the USO is past security so your sailor needs to meet you in front of security to go with you to get your gate pass at the airlines counter to continue your visit with him/her until the plane leaves. USO is wonderful in assisting military families....so ask for any help that you need from them.

Comment by AndreaLynnE on July 15, 2011 at 10:27pm: The end of a perfect day and chapter in our lives; but the story continues. Each new page is filled opportunity and adventure. This is turning out to be a great book.