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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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Comment by NevadaSierra on December 29, 2008 at 10:11am: Hi Marie: Thank you for the welcome - I haven't figured out the Bangor part - I'll have to keep trying.Our sailor worked Chirstmas, and yesterday they celebrated Brianna's first birthday. I will be asking for prayers in January when she has her cleft pallet surgery - thanks again, Susan

Comment by NevadaSierra on December 28, 2008 at 1:43pm: My son, Adam is serving the USS Pennsylvania as a Nuke. He and his family live in Silverdale on base.

Comment by Mark on December 25, 2008 at 11:24pm: Beautiful post, Marie! Merry Christmas to you and your family - my son PIR'd earlier this month and is heading back to CT before dawn for sub school. It truly is something having our newly grownup sailors home this season.

Comment by Susan mom to Niko on December 24, 2008 at 8:56pm: My sailor just made it home and in the door... So nice to have him home!

Comment by Storymom on December 24, 2008 at 6:46pm: Carol, what a journey for you and your family...Stay safe now...
Connie, thanks for the lovely poem, (i'm running out of tissue!)
Momx5-time for a deep, sigh...that is good news about your sailor gal!
Angie F. Love the snowman ornament and the GREEN color!

Comment by Storymom on December 23, 2008 at 2:28pm: Here's a tip we learned on the news last night. Go to Sea-Tac's website...see the right side of the homepage where it says: SeaTac Real Time Flight Information "arrivals, Departures?"
Then where it says time: from and to? just type in 8am and then 11 pm, don't type in an airline, or anything else. Make sure it says "Today" and wow...an entire schedule shows up of ALL the airlines!. They say it's like looking at the schedule boards actually at the airports! Yesterday, there were a lot of canceled flights, but today, it looks like many are landing and taking off. Good news for stranded sailors and loved ones! ( I don't know about Portland's website, but it must be similar?) You can switch between arrivals and departures too. Before, I was typing in my son's actual airline and flight number everytime...time consuming!

Comment by Storymom on December 23, 2008 at 3:39am: Ahhh....'sigh'....that IS a nice story Angie F!

Comment by Susan mom to Niko on December 22, 2008 at 7:56pm: I have my fingers crossed that we will be home together at some point before new years! Not sure as the snow in the Northwest just keeps falling! We will celebrate Christmas whatever day we are together. I am counting my blessing that my son stranded in New York is with friends not sitting at the airport... and that Whidbey has power and my sailor is warm and fed!

Comment by Susan mom to Niko on December 22, 2008 at 7:38pm: my sailor still stuck on Whidbey. They cancelled his shuttle to airport where I was going to pick him up. My other son was flying in from New York. Flight from New York cancelled so my younger son is stuck in New York! No room on flights before Christmas. My sailor son has a lead on a ride tomorrow from Whidbey. Keeping my fingers crossed they get off the island before the next storm hits tomorrow evening...

I have a friend that is telling me that in 1956 they had over 50 inches of snow in the Seattle area! Don't know about you but I think we may be close! If not it surely seems so!

Comment by Storymom on December 22, 2008 at 12:33pm: Sue McM....your story made my eyes fill with tears...what a precious memory of your father and family. Thanks for sharing that !