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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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All Mom's who hail from the very proud state of TEXAS!!!

Members: 1411
Latest Activity: Nov 25, 2024

A Little Bit About TEXAS

Welcome all Moms who hail from the very proud state of TEXAS!!! Please tell us about where you live in Texas (we all know it is pretty big). Also, give us an idea about what your Sailor is doing and where he/she is (watch for OPSEC issues, though).

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Comment by Brenda Sue on May 28, 2011 at 12:12pm: Welcome sbeechl, you are way out west! I hope you can connect to other moms! Be sure and find the group for her PIR - it is fantastic to connect to them! It will be a while before you know her ship and division - but connect to them also! They will soon (along with us) become your new best friends!

What does your daughter want to do in the Navy?

Comment by sbeechl on May 28, 2011 at 12:08pm: Hi, y'all! I'm from El Paso. My daughter left 24 May 2011 for BC.

Comment by Alysia-Redsmom (VQ-4/ATO) on May 28, 2011 at 10:49am: Love the Texas weather diary, too funny!

Wishing everyone a relaxing & peaceful weekend :-)

Comment by Kimberly on May 28, 2011 at 9:55am: Too funny!!!!!!!

Comment by mumziepooh on May 28, 2011 at 2:59am: Brenda Sue- ROFL!!!!! It was 97 today in Houston......

Comment by Matt's Mom/Cathy on May 28, 2011 at 12:16am: That was hilarious Brenda! I need to forward that to Matt as a reminder about Texas weather since he keeps telling me how much he misses the weather at home. He says it rains practically every day and it is always overcast where he is at.

Comment by Brenda Sue on May 27, 2011 at 9:41pm: Wow!! My Derek went on his first deployment on August 1st also! It happened to be his 20th birthday! I was in New York City with some other Navy Moms! What a memoriable day! I wrote a blog about it on my page.

Donna, can you say where he is going? He coming home - or you going there again?

PS - I am on two months vacation! We need to do some sewing and packing boxes for our troops! A few fun dinners would be great also!

Comment by txsailorsam-Donna on May 27, 2011 at 9:14pm: SF got his depolyment orders today. He goes out on Aug. 1st almost a year to the date he went to bc which was Aug. 4th. Lots of hold time. I do get 11 ddays with him before he leaves.

Comment by Brenda Sue on May 27, 2011 at 8:06pm: haha - Quilt Blue - I got the following in an email just today. Sorry about all the curse words! I tried to take them all out - but I might have missed a few. Still pretty funny though

Dear Diary:

May 10:    Just moved to Texas! Now this is a state that knows how to live!!  Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place!  It's beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

May 25th:   Really heating up.   Got to 95 today.   Not a problem.   Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car.  What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshipper.

June 12th:   Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today.   Lots of cactus and rocks.   What a breeze to maintain.   No more mowing the lawn for me!   Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

June 29th:   The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat?  At least, it's kind of windy though.  Getting used to this heat is taking longer than I expected.

July 4th:    Fell asleep by the community pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body - missed 3 days of work! What a dumb thing to do.   I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

July 13th:   I missed Lomita (my cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning.   By the time I got to the hot car at noon, Lomita had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag, then popped like a water balloon.   The car now smells like Kibbles and _____s.   I learned my lesson though.   No more pets in this heat.    Good ol' Mr. Sun strikes again!

July 22st:    The wind sucks.   It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!!   And it's hot as h___. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.

July 31st:   Been sleeping outside on the patio for 3 nights now - $225,000 house and I can't even go inside. Lomita is the lucky one. Why did I ever come here?

Aug. 6th:    It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today.   It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85.   I hate this stupid state.

Aug. 11th:    If another wise _____ cracks, 'Hot enough for you today?' I'm going to strangle him.   _____ heat.   By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!

Aug. 16th:    Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and when sat on the seats in the car, I thought my _____was on fire.   My skin melted to the seat.   I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and _____ . . . Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried _____, and baked cat.

Aug 22nd:    The weather report might as well be a d___ recording. Hot and Sunny...Hot and Sunny...Hot and Sunny.    It's been too hot to do ____ for 2 ____ months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week.  Doesn't it ever rain in this _____ state?   Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over.   Even the cactus can't live in this _____ heat.

Aug. 30th:    Welcome to _____!   Temperature got to 115 today.   Cactus are dead.  Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and guess what he asked me??? "Hot enough for you today?"  My sister had to spend $1,500 to bail me out of jail.  Freaking Texas.  What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here??
Will write later to let you know how the trial goes.