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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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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Moms from Wisconsin who want to share their photos or share their experiences of their son or daughter in the Navy.
Location: Watertown
Members: 123
Latest Activity: Jan 28, 2020
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Comment by mom2nw on January 31, 2012 at 8:43am
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Hi all: I haven't been on in awhile... Congratulations to the soon-to-be new sailors! Welcome to a new adventure! PIR is so cool. Take lots and lots of pictures.
unfortunately this is the closest they will most likely be to us geographically speaking...I wish I lived in the South so time, distance and $$ weren't keeping me away from my son. Heading to Afg soon
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Comment by orderentry on January 30, 2012 at 9:34pm
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My sons PIR is this Friday and can't hardly wait. Headed to Pensacola and then Bremeton, Wa the end of March.
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Comment by GodBlessAmerica on January 30, 2012 at 8:01pm
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My son's PIR is 03/09. He stated on the back of his form letter that his bunk mate is also from WI.
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Comment by jackiequeen/ship09div076 on January 14, 2012 at 8:19pm
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my sons pir is 03/02/12 can hardly wait!
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Comment by Cathi on January 13, 2012 at 12:00am
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mom2nw... my daughter is too. ;-)
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Welcome jackiequeen! Glad to have you aboard. Most of us has been where you are on this journey and are here to help.
My son was able to be home for a short visit at Christmas and is leaving in a few weeks for his first deployment, which I'm not handling all that well. Cathi, I love that thought that you said we can take comfort in knowing that they are looking at the same moon and stars that we are....he's just will be seeing it a half a day earlier than me! (ps hope your daughter is feeling better)
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hi everyone. My son just left for bootcamp on Jan 5th. Glad I found this Wi moms group.
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Thank you Eaglemom, Jill and Mary. Its so hard when they are so far away. My daughter is able to email me almost every day since she left Nov 14. The phone calls are few and far between. My daughter separated her ribs and burned her hand. The ribs will take a couple months to heal. It took a few days of emails to find out how she did this...(I'm picturing some horrid accident in the shop)...Instead she finally tells me she separated her ribs wrestling with one of the guys in the shop and she burned her hand in the pot shack in 200F water while cranking. I was relieved yet I hope she and the other sailor got reprimanded for wrestling like that. She emailed me yesterday and told me she got to celebrate midnight on New Years Eve twice. And the last time she went out on the deck and listened to the long whistle blow and looked at the zillons of stars in the sky. If anything, all of us can take comfort in knowing that our sailors are seeing the same moon and stars as we are. Thinking of all my fellow Navy moms, and wishing you all the Best in 2012! Happy New year!
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Merry Christmas! Hope everyone had a great Christmas! I had a good Christmas but I missed my sailor so much. She spent her Christmas in Singapore with an adopted family. Then her and some sailors went to the malls and a Christmas festival. And at the end of the last mall they went to was a huge Christmas tree where they had fake snow falling. So she and a guy from Minnesota danced in the snow. She said that was her favorite part of Christmas and it made it feel like Christmas for a moment.
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Welcome, Silverado!
Gals SE of me:....Have fun with the Cookie Exchange..I'd love to join you, but I'm heading to the Dells for a Christmas Party/get together with friends! Brit'sMom: I hope your mom is better. GodBless: .... GO NAVY!!
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