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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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

Events

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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 pamom on October 6, 2012 at 8:22am: Yes Travis, my son is well, although I am now getting ready for a whole new set of worries.... he is deploying next week for the 1st time. A convention, lol! Now that sounds great!

Have an awesome weekend everyone!

Comment by D'sMum35 on October 5, 2012 at 10:54pm: Hey Everyone! Welcome to our new members! I am so happy to have you all on board!! Best of luck to your W during this amazingly crazy journey they have begun!

To the ''Veterans''----its wonderful to hear from you!!!! WE have been thru so much together. Time goes by so fast.

New parents.....if you can tell your W one thing, tell him to take this only one exact second at a time. None of us can really imagine what is in store for these young men. All we can do is love, listen, encourage and pray. NO news really is GOOD NEWS in this case. Go figure, we teach them to communicate with us, then they grow up!

Best of luck to all who PIR in the next few weeks!! It is awesome. I remember being able to pick my son out of 800 young men.....a mum always knows :)

Happy Friday, and much love.

Comment by pamom on October 5, 2012 at 3:39pm: Hi Wellen!!!!!!! Hope all is well with your W and you:) And Hi Travis!!! Good to see you back on here. You were a wealth of knowledge and support when me W was going through BCT and CQT. I will never forget it! Thank you to all of you:

Good luck to the W's going through training right now. "One minute at a time" will help get them through.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Comment by wellen(ship04/DIV818 PIR 9/1) on October 5, 2012 at 8:34am: Hey Girls! I'm from PIR 9/1/11 818...class 71 from Coronado. I love seeing these familiar names that supported me through those difficult days of BC. Mine has moved on to "more training"...I'll take it!!

Comment by Another Navy Mom on October 4, 2012 at 9:31pm: Class 72 is in CQT right now, and I believe a group of newbies arrived in August. Graduation is getting closer!!! My "W" still hasn't been home, but we have visited several times, and speaking of scavenger hunts... we were on the lookout for a paddlock, and never did find one on Coronado.

One thing is for sure... the son I walked into the recruiter's office is clearly now an independent man; completely grown up and matured. I'm grateful and thankful, yet miss him terribly. The lack of communcation is the hardest part, but the times we do get to hear from him make that time even more precious. Ive been able to meet several of his new "brothers" and like him, they are all wonderful, precious sons. I love going down for visits; wish I could visit more often.

Comment by kelly67 on October 4, 2012 at 6:55pm: Hey there Travis good to see you here too! I think the Class number is up to 72 or 73 but not sure......anyone else know the answer?

Hope your son is doing well!

Comment by annie on October 4, 2012 at 9:19am: Just wanted to comment on SWCC'Em's message "What I've learned.." As a mom of a W currently in training, these words cannot be more true; everything that you said, has been and is my experience. And it is so true that I have found myself watching the YouTube video to get a sense of what he is doing on week 1,2,3 etc. and to feel closer to him. I have posted this on my fridge. Thank you for this!

Comment by kelly67 on October 4, 2012 at 8:30am: Good Morning & Safe Travels to everyone heading to Great Lakes this week & next week too!

Comment by Robby's Mom on October 4, 2012 at 8:10am: Chellita, I am so excited for you. Have a great time. I already sent my SR a letter and apologized in advance because I don't think I'll be able to let him go when we see him. Get those hugs in :-) and don't forget your tissues, lol.

Comment by Chellita on October 4, 2012 at 7:03am: I cannot believe how emotional I am getting about PIR tomorrow.
My eyes are on the verge of spilling over every time I think about being able to actually hug my son! Cannot wait to get on the plane. Thank you all for the valuable information received so far and I know I will be leaning on this community for the years to come.