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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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Sonar Technician - Surface

Members: 197
Latest Activity: Oct 27, 2019

Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center Website:
http://www.cmwc.navy.mil/default.aspx

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Don’t discuss current or future destinations/ ports of call/deployment bases .
Don’t discuss current or future operations or missions.
Don’t discuss current or future dates and times of exercises or missions.
Don’t discuss readiness issues and numbers.
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Comment by jillymom on December 11, 2013 at 12:45pm: Congrats, jkcmom. Once she starts boot, there will be a Navy for Moms group for your PIR week. Those are very challenging weeks and there will be a PIR group for you as well on facebook for that PIR week that will help you immensely. Boot camp is pretty intense; be prepared for a ride! There's a lot to learn; advise her to start her curl-ups, running and swimming soon!

Comment by jkcmom on December 11, 2013 at 3:27am: My daughter just went to MEPS on Monday. If nothing changes, she will go to boot camp on March 18, 2014 as a Sonar Technician. I've been scouring these pages but now that she's official, I have officially joined.

Comment by jillymom on November 27, 2013 at 5:20pm: Sharla-congrats on the 82! My son is not a great student and all the extra studying will pay off. Encourage her to give 110% right through the end. Karen, I stayed at the Quality Inn my last night for $55 and was surprised at the great view and a decent room. We stayed at the Gateway at Great Lakes as my AF son was there, but I've been told your sailor has to be in the room with you to get in on base. That's the best option if someone in your party is eligible.

Comment by Sharla on November 27, 2013 at 3:36pm: Just got the news she made an 82! Yay! Now for a low stress holiday. LOL!

Comment by spyder013 on November 27, 2013 at 3:27pm: Is he at pt loma or coronado? There are navy lodges at both and san diego is beautiful!

Comment by navymommo on November 27, 2013 at 3:12pm: We went to sd for sons stg graduation. It was a great experience. Since we rented a car, distance from base was not too much of an issue. So... think about using Homeaway.com or trip advisor or alwaysonvacation.com to find a condo. That way (for not much more than a hotel room) you have a nice place to hang out and you can make meals instead of eating out all the time. The cost, though a little more than a hotel was in the end much less expensive because of food,. There are even some places in the towers at coronado.

We stayed in Solana beach and it was fantastic.

Comment by abuon18 on November 27, 2013 at 3:02pm: Sharla, my husband's whole class had their orders by February and he didn't get his until July! The wait is TORTUROUS!

Karen, I haven't stayed at the Navy Lodge on base because I live in San Diego but I can tell you from working in the hotel industry that anywhere close to base is going to be not nearly as nice (old and rundown!). Farther out from base the hotels are nicer but they do get more expensive as well.

Comment by Sharla on November 27, 2013 at 2:55pm: I can't speak for the Navy Lodget in SD, but we stayed at the one in Great Lakes for PIR and it was fine. Very comfortable.

My sailor is going to a friend's (whose family is there local) for Thanksgiving, and saving her leave to come home for Christmas. I can't wait. And what's sad is I already know it's going to go by too fast. One week is like a blink. :)

She's taking her Comp Test today for A school and I'm nervous for her. She didn't do well on the quiz yesterday, and she has struggled with just pulling off low B's all along. That's with extra night study logged in. If she passes, graduation is Dec 5th. She hasn't received her orders yet, and it is killing her because everyone she knows is getting theirs. Her BFF is going to the east coast, her roommate is staying there, and her boyfriend is going overseas in July.

Comment by baglady on November 12, 2013 at 1:46pm: Never mind...found out the DC3 thing was an error...But I DID get a call yesterday and was so happy to wish him a Happy Veteran's Day!

Comment by baglady on November 12, 2013 at 12:57pm: Can anyone tell me what a DC3 is, as opposed to STG3? My sailor has been referred to both ways...just curious.