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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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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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Started by LuvMySailor!~Michelle Sep 21, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by LuvMySailor!~Michelle on September 12, 2011 at 9:10am
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Hello everyone! My son just had PIR 9/9 and I was told there was a Wisconsin group so here I am! Can't wait to meet all of you and keep learning about my son's experiences he will have. This site is a life-line and I am proud my son enabled me to be a part of it. :)
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Comment by Brit'sMom on September 12, 2011 at 7:41am
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mom2nw - Sorry to hear you were having a bad time with your emotions. Things will be a lot easier once PIR is over and you can at the least talk with him. It is still hard being away from them, but hearing their voice helps! We still all have our days of melt down though...my daughter just called as they were pulling out of port. :( So it will be a little while before I can talk with her again. But on the ship she can email...so that is good and something to look forward to! I don't know if I will ever get use to this 'situation', but as long as I can communicate I do 'okay'! I try to check in here daily, if not, I always do when comments are made...so feel free to write back at anytime...I know someone will get back to you in a short time. I have only been with this sight a short time, but have talked with some great mom's who have been a big help. I am helping to put together the Meet & Greet and am really looking forward to putting faces, names, and Sailors all together with one face. Sadly I didn't know about this when my daughter graduated...so I haven't been to a M&G yet. I hope you can make this picnic. You take care, keep writing, it was the one thing that my daughter said kept her going...take care! Kim
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Comment by Philly5 (Justin's proud mom) on September 11, 2011 at 9:13pm
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mom2nw - hi i just got my first few letters from him last thursday. i was so excited. he said he wanted to leave at the beginning, but he said he is fine, and has meet some cool guys. he said he really really misses us. awe brought more tears... PIR is Oct 21 and i can't wait!!
Kris- i have been writing lots of letters so i hope he is hanging in there!
How is everyone else from WI.?
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Comment by mom2nw on September 11, 2011 at 3:37pm
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I'm having 'one of those days'...weepy and missing my boy, and thought I would check in here. Philly5: how is boot camp going? when is PIR? Eaglemom, have you heard from your son? Prayers for both of you and all our Navy family. Cathi, maybe some northern IL N4Ms would want to come to the M&G ?? As usual, the support and comradarie I see on this site lifts my spirits , and yes, Jen....time to pull on my big girl pants !
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Comment by Kris, Stevens mom on September 2, 2011 at 7:26pm
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eaglemom keeping you all in my thoughts!
Phiily5-just be prepared they are so busy during BC & only are allowed a short period of time to write/read letters. Too I think at first they try to write to everyone......, a good idea is to send a bunch of prestamped envelopes, thats one less thing he has to worry about.
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Comment by Cathi on August 31, 2011 at 11:00pm
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Hi All,
In case your invitation to the picnic got lost here is the link:
http://www.navyformoms.com/events/racine-area-wisconsin-navy-moms-p...
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Comment by Jen - Ship10mom(Div340) on August 25, 2011 at 11:56am
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Love and hugs and prayers of support, strenght and hope for you and family Eaglemom!! :-) I have to remind myself all the time that his job is so much harder than mine and that I need to pull up my big girl pants and get on with it - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't :-) Love ya'll!!! Thank God for this little corner of cyberspace and each other!
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eaglemom: i too am sending hugs and prayers to you and your son.
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Thanks everyone. I had a couple small spells this morning, but i am doing better today than i thought i would. i even washed his clothes tonite and did OK.
How often do they get to open mail? I can't wait to send and receive them :)
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Philly5 - We're all here for you! Yes, "emotional" is probably the best way to describe how we all felt when our kids signed in, and then went in! I for one seriously doubted my sanity at many times! (still do that, but I've been told I'm not certifiable yet - ha ha) This entire site was my lifesaver! Feel free to vent, scream (figuratively) cry, laugh.... we got your back!
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