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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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Weddings Future Brides

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Wedding bliss doesn't always seem like that if you planning a white wedding with a military man.

Gather Ideas, Planning tips, great website good deals.

*Mother of the Groom or Bride share you stories or experiance

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Latest Activity: Dec 22, 2016

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Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on May 31, 2011 at 4:49pm: Hi, No insight just find out what paper work the court house will require ahead of time get that together ASAP.

Comment by mattsgrl on May 31, 2011 at 4:43pm: hey girls, I'm getting married July 9th at the courthouse and i was wondering if anyone could give me any insight. Thanks

Comment by annamichael on May 31, 2011 at 6:20am: Jess... Oh My Goodness! You did get very lucky. Thank you for sharing your story. I know you must be thrilled you were able to do all of that! :)

We aren't thinking of getting married between school and his duty station, because I won't be on his orders. We are thinking between A and C school, when he has his 2 week leave. We hope. :)

Thank you again!!

Comment by Paymaster on May 30, 2011 at 11:09pm: Anti M...They got married by proxy in CA. Just call your local court house for details.

Comment by Jess_0411 on May 30, 2011 at 9:32pm: Aw congrats!

Comment by Kac46047 on May 30, 2011 at 9:19pm: officially a navy wife! best memorial day weekend ever! We did a courthouse wedding and it couldnd hav ebeen more perfect. I loved everything about the ceromony, cant wait for this new and exciting path im on!!

Comment by Jess_0411 on May 30, 2011 at 7:43pm: Hey Annamichael! Sorry its taken me so long to respond. I saw your question on here, but I started my new job this week (yay for FINALLY getting back to work!) and I've just been busy. But anyways, here's my answer:

Yes, we got to have our white wedding, but we just so happened to have a lot of things going in our favor. We got engaged February 2010 right before he deployed. My mom and I didn't start planning until after he left because the idea was that I could stay busy with planning while he was gone. I knew I wanted a spring wedding, which worked out because we're Catholic and have to be engaged at least nine months before we got married (I guess they want to make sure we're not preggo...I don't know). Anyways, we started planning after my husband left, so he wasn't there to consult on the date or anything. It just so happened that the only date in which the church was available and Longwood (where we had our reception) was available was April 2nd.

Now here's where a lot of luck came in for us. When they returned from deployment, it was time for my sailor to pick his next duty station. Now, everyone on ship knew he was getting married (the captain of his old ship was a good friend of my parents), so they helped him pick a new station that would be easy for him to bring me along just in case we weren't married yet (Norfolk). They turned in his paperwork in October, and in December we recieved his written orders. He had to re-enlist in March, and then be off his old ship by April 1st and didn't have to report to his new ship until May 9th. Because of this awesome stroke of luck, he didn't have to take leave time, we got to get married, have a honeymoon, and plenty of time to move.

Now mine and my husband's was a weird situation that just happend to work out because it was time for him to re-enlist, but its not the norm. I've known wives who have had big white weddings between A-school and his new duty station, but they had to deal with not being on his orders. But I think that if you want the big, white wedding, you will find a way to make it work. Don't settle for anything less then what you and what your sailor want (:

Comment by Anti M on May 28, 2011 at 11:02am: Not every state allows proxy marriage. Where did they get that done?

Comment by Paymaster on May 28, 2011 at 10:50am: Getting married by proxy is were one of the parties can not be at the ceremony but wants to get married. They complete the paperwork and you take that paperwork to the court house. You usually have some one stand in there place and the judge marries you.