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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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PIR 7/8/11, TG34-10 Divisions (219-226, 815 & 934)

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This is for all of us who have recruits graduating from RTC on July 8th, 2011. Here we can all support each other through the long separation and prepare to see our US Navy Sailors for the first time after RTC.

Location: Great lakes, IL
Members: 73
Latest Activity: Jun 1, 2013

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You need to be a member of PIR 7/8/11, TG34-10 Divisions (219-226, 815 & 934) to add comments!

Comment by diannep on May 26, 2011 at 1:10pm: Attention JessicaBSailor, Lala, Betsy, and other veteran moms. 7/15 has formed. So go ahead and join when you can!

Comment by diannep on May 26, 2011 at 12:34pm: I ditto Betsy's Residence Inn comment. We stayed there too...but had the larger 2 bedroom 2 bath so it cost a bit more....Betsy had the studio unit. Both come with full kitchens...the breakfast has hot and cold foods and is a buffet. They are PET FRIENDLY so for those driving, bring your pets to reunite with your sailors. It is in a nice quiet office park area, just down the road from the Walmart, where there are Springhill Suites and Courtyard Inn. All are Marriotts and all have shuttles. We used our AAA rate when there...be sure to check the PIR rate too. We also were on the 6:30 shuttle and arrived in the hall at around 7. Wouldn't do it any other way!

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on May 26, 2011 at 12:31pm: JessicaB, welcome back!

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on May 26, 2011 at 12:30pm: luvmyboy, The Residence Inn, Waukegan was very reasonable (I think we paid $79 per night) and they have a shuttle starting at 6:30a.m. They have kitchens in the rooms and breakfast in the morning downstairs. The shuttle was awesome! We were in the hall early enough to pick any seat we wanted. :)

Comment by MidwestMom on May 26, 2011 at 12:26pm: The other great thing about you, JessicaB, is your posts are always helpful and positive. I've seen some other veterans jump on newbies on other sites, but you are always kind in your responses and YOU ARE EVERYWHERE!!! Lol. That is GREATLY appreciated! :) The help you and Diannep and so many others offer is truly a God-send to us especially in those early days when we're wondering how we're ever going to learn to let go...

Comment by diannep on May 26, 2011 at 12:20pm: Everyone...JessicaBSailor is amazing and the one who posts so much helpful info. She has been helping on here as long as I have...our sons started in the same PIR group (back in late 2009). So please post questions and between Jessica, Lala, Betsy, and I...hoping we can keep you guys "in the loop!"

Comment by ProudNavyMomNanette on May 26, 2011 at 10:33am: Thanks stepsyl. Letters are great but nothing like seeing and being with the real thing. We can't wait for PIR. Isn't the count down clock great?! I quote the days/hours/minutes and sometimes the seconds to my friends and family and they laugh at me thinking that I'm the one doing the count down.

Comment by joel's_rackie on May 26, 2011 at 12:58am: “I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.”

Colin Raye

goodnight everyone..

Comment by CArol on May 26, 2011 at 12:48am: That's great Nanette! I'm glad your SR is enjoying it. We're waiting for the first 'real' letter.

Comment by ProudNavyMomNanette on May 26, 2011 at 12:41am: Yay! We received our first letter from our SR. It was short just as I expected but it's nice to finally hear from him. He's enjoying BC more than he thought he would. Our letters are now criss-crossing paths across country.