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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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Any questions regarding DEP, boot camp, A school or in between can hopefully be answered here. I myself was in boot camp from June-August of '09 and am now stationed in Norfolk, Va. This site helped my mother so much, its my time to return the favor.

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"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child." - Sophia Loren

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Comment by Tiff'sMom (Sharon) on September 17, 2010 at 11:10pm: I think who said she might be in week 6.... she PIRs in two weeks.. others in the div got letters... if I don't get one next week, then I'll WORRY!! hahaha Maybe I'll get lucky and maybe they will get to call this weekend. They have had only one call so far :( and she didn't think they would get another until after battlestations, but miracles happen! :)

Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on September 17, 2010 at 11:00pm: I think they can workout, Don't quote me though, most of them chose not to in my boyfriends DIV, they wanted the rest time. Firefighting....week 4 maybe? sounds about right..She will be very busy with that, so if you don't get a letter a) she's working VERY hard. b) it's lost in the mail and may take longer. c) her DIV got in trouble.

Comment by Tiff'sMom (Sharon) on September 17, 2010 at 10:55pm: I don't know the official week! But she goes to firefighting this week, I know that and then on Friday is her final PFA... do they get to go practice on the "holiday" time if they want to, like run and work out??

Comment by Mom-to sailor-Alli_Div950-10/29 on September 17, 2010 at 10:51pm: Love today's quote --

Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on September 17, 2010 at 10:46pm: Ladies, hang tight, i promise everything is okay, no news is good news, what week are they in? Could be doing their PFA(physical fitness assesment)

Comment by Tiff'sMom (Sharon) on September 17, 2010 at 10:45pm: sailorgirl... what div is your boyfriend? My daughter didn't write this week either. This is the first time she didn't write... :( so we are in the same boat.... Poor Who... you were having to give the same story on two different places, I'm sorry!!

Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on September 17, 2010 at 10:44pm: Most of the time, they don't let them get to them, especially with constant letters, my boyfriend said that they didn't even phase him, he laughed it off, because i told him daily how much he meant to me, and reasons for everything, so yeah..it keeps them going, the letters do!

Comment by alessandrabeason on September 17, 2010 at 10:06pm: thanks you two. i have been extremely upset and no one seems to understand other than people who have been thru this before!! thank you for the prayers :) i need them, i 've been a mess lately. you think i'd be okay as it approaches PIR on 10/1 but i'm more worried and i don't want him letting them get to him and all the stress. i keep on writing to him every night and telling him how proud i am of him and how much i love him! and yes a surprise call would be amazing :)

Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on September 17, 2010 at 9:48pm: sailorgirl10 - yeah, they told my bf i was cheating on him, and he was like..funny how they say that...buuuuut they don't know you:p
head up!!:)

and i have noticed the quotes, they're awesome!

Comment by Who on September 17, 2010 at 9:44pm: oh, and i dont know if you all have noticed, but every day i put a quote in the text box right below the groups picture and description. i hope it helps, even if in the slightest way.
best wishes