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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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

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

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

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Welcome family and loved ones of sailors serving on USS Kearsarge, homeport Norfolk, VA! Please be sure to review and observe the OPSEC guidelines below to keep our sailors safe :) Introduce yourself and join in the chat! Current group Admin: Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom

Location: Norfolk VA - and everywhere!
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Latest Activity: Oct 19, 2022

USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

"Reveille to Taps" - This is a very cool three-minute timelapse video of Sailors performing their daily operations onboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge.

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Comment by DCT MOM on September 16, 2010 at 5:07pm: Julie, hope everything is okay with your husband.

Comment by Susinovoa91 on September 16, 2010 at 3:33pm: Yes, i just read that on Kearsages fb page, thank you...i feel much better now :). anyway i just found a website and wanted to share with all of you

http://www.uscarriers.net/lhd3history.htm

This website will tell us the ports they go to.

Comment by embarkguru on September 16, 2010 at 3:28pm: No, it does not refer to any location; its a operational status. Please be cautious when stating places that they ship might be at.

Comment by embarkguru on September 16, 2010 at 3:22pm: The ship will be River City (communications are off for about 80% of the ship) until tomorrow...hopefully.

Comment by Susinovoa91 on September 16, 2010 at 3:04pm: I havent heard from my boyfriend all day yesterday n today...Does anyone know whats going on? He writes to me everyday, im worried =(

Comment by DCT MOM on September 16, 2010 at 7:25am: still havent heard from Dustin but i did see a photo. Its on the USS Kearsarge facebook page. under the 2010 Deployment Photos. its photo 80. Was really great to see him he is working on one of his helos.

Comment by DCT MOM on September 15, 2010 at 10:57am: was just checking the photos on the Navy site They were in Souda Bay Greece on the 13th. thats where they ported for a short time.

Comment by DCT MOM on September 14, 2010 at 10:43pm: Ikeep thinking back to what his recruter told me when he left for Great Lakes. No News is good news!!!

Comment by jkl2z7 on September 14, 2010 at 9:40pm: Yeah, I checked out the site too. I don't know what they are talking about...the media. I haven't heard anything either. I am hoping just a warning. Thanks for your support.

Comment by jkl2z7 on September 14, 2010 at 7:06pm: To NavyMom2010, I know how frustrating it can be to not hear from your son. I hear from mine but sometimes it can be a day or so. Secondly, He wont tell me anything about anything. I know more from these ladies here than from him and it is discouraging. I am sure that he will write soon. Hang in there!
He is from the Medical Dept.and he said that he hasn't been in that dept much this whole deployment. So, I am a mess. I miss him so much and the tears just want to come and I am trying not to get myself upset. I don't know what to think.