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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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Please, please remember before you post: our sons are part of a Special Operations community, even while in training, and it is vitally important to form the habit of not divulging any information that could possibly compromise the safety of any of their members. This would especially apply to names, dates, places, procedures, etc. You might like to read the "Discussion Forum" titled "OPSEC" for some guidance. If you are still in doubt, please ask one of our members for their opinion by private message before you post. We are here to help each other, but we must be careful at all times.

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Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on January 27, 2010 at 1:10am: We are here to support each other and our sailors. We want to be safe and protect our sailors but not to run off new moms either..

Comment by D'sMum35 on January 26, 2010 at 10:51pm: You can never be secure enough when our children are at stake.

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on January 26, 2010 at 8:22pm: Hi erics mom, you're right that pre-buds is for SEALs. SWCC is also Special Operations so in BC they are all together. After PIR your son should class up for SWCC. Sometimes there is a lag time, it just depends on how many they have for a class. Have you joined the Boot Camp Moms or the New Moms group? Also, there is usually a group for your PIR date. Guess it depends on how involved you want to be. I pretty much joined any group that had anything in common with me when I first joined N4Ms!

Comment by dreams on January 25, 2010 at 6:45pm: Hi everyone, I'm new to this group and have some questions if someone can answer...My son is in BC now going down the SWCC road... What is the next step after BC? Someone told me he will have to do PreBuds, but I thought that was just for the Seals......He told me alot about his schools before he left, but I can't remember the order or what happens where... and I wasn't sure if we could even discuss that here.... I haven't had any phone calls yet, just 2 letters - short and sweet - not alot of info.....His PIR is 26 Feb so I was just wondering -- what next? .......... Any insight would be appreciated. :)

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on January 25, 2010 at 6:02pm: By the way, WELCOME to our new members! We may be small in number, but powerful in supporting our guys.

Comment by D'sMum35 on January 25, 2010 at 3:54pm: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/35056568#35056568

Check it out.

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on January 25, 2010 at 1:11am: Thanks D'sMum, that is good that they can't go to TJ, nothing but trouble for them there!

Comment by D'sMum35 on January 24, 2010 at 9:44pm: I'm sorry, but I don't remember how soon they get leave. It can take a little time. And all of you will be happy to know, they are not allowed to go to TJ! That's Tijuana. Once your sons are there they will find out when they get to leave. I think my son got to come home pretty soon after BC.He may have even had some time off...They get a lot of time off...Holidays., etc.. But remember, we are only 90 miles or so away.....

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on January 24, 2010 at 7:53pm: I'm so happy that you get to talk to him D'sMum! From what I'm gathering those who are in, seem to really enjoy what they do. Do you know when they get overnight Liberty once they are in SD? I know it varies a lot, but one of the members here was asking.

Comment by D'sMum35 on January 23, 2010 at 3:15pm: Yep Tee, snake bites! I told him to stay away from those snakes! He said he planned on it! He's doing really well, and calls often. He sounds great!
Thanks!