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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Comment by Susan mom to Niko on January 27, 2009 at 9:13pm
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Now I am wondering just how you will have that motorhome decorated!?! When we met you gave us those darling bags of m&m's with your daughters picture and departure date.... What will you do with an entire motorhome to decorate!?!
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Comment by Storymom on January 27, 2009 at 5:50pm
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Marie....Wow....what a reunion! Drive real S L O W !!
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How exciting that your daughter is arriving at SeaTac and you get to pick her up! What a rockin' trip that ride will be! I wish I could be there at Bangor to see the look on the MP's face when you pull up! Have a great time together!
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Comment by Anna on January 26, 2009 at 10:51pm
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Donna and Barbooch,
Got a chuckle from your comments about your weather. It's in the teens here in NE Ohio. Friday we got above freezing so some of the snow started melting. Then Saturday morning we were back in the low teens and had a light snowfall - like you said Barbooch - just enough to make it look fresh and pretty. However it covered up a sheet of ice on which I did a "Charlie Brown going to kick that football" number. My feet went straight out and I landed full out on the ground. My husband was with me and he said it happened so fast he couldn't even reach out to try to break the fall any. I need springtime - fast!!!
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June thank you for sharing such wonderful stories. It is so nice to know that others have seen such great personal growth in their sons! I know my son has grown in leaps and bounds. Growth that could have happened had he chosen a path other than the Navy. But I am sure it would not have happened as quickly.
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MaryHelen,
Wish I wasn't 3/4 of the US away from you - I'm drooling all over my laptop!! Where did you find devonshire cream? I haven't been able to find any online even!!
Anna
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Happy Birthday Barbooch!
It was so wonderful meeting you ladies! When are we meeting again?? Maybe to craft Valentine cards???
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Yea Marie, thank you thank you! You've done a wonderful thing...we appreciate you!
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on January 20, 2009 at 2:07am
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Saturday will be quite a day - we have SEVEN events scheduled across the country with our Navy Moms.
Rhode Island,
Georgia
Tucson, Arizona
Texas...again!!! LOL
New Jersey
East Washington
Idaho
Of course we have a gathering in Great Lakes on Thursday as well to celebrate our newest group of Sailors!
Be sure to check the "Event" schedule for your state, if you don't see one planned...turn on the coffee and invite a new friend - there seems to be a Navy Mom every where now!
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Hello all! I also would love for my sailor to take on his boxes of treasures! He is finally moving out of the barracks and will have the space to take them. Before you ship things to your sailor check to see they have somewhere to store them! Some of the barracks have very small closets!
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