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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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Connecticut Navy Moms

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Are you a Navy mother (or other) living in Connecticut? Join us!

Location: Connecticut
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Latest Activity: Aug 27, 2023

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Comment by CTmomof3 on November 29, 2011 at 9:45am: Who is the MA mom that wanted to come .being a friday some may not get home in time.

Comment by Valtameri on November 29, 2011 at 12:05am: Hi NavyMomFromCT -- Glad you joined us!

Comment by Valtameri on November 29, 2011 at 12:04am: I'd like to come ... put me down as a maybe for now.

Comment by CTmomof3 on November 28, 2011 at 10:06pm: Donna, I'm in....ok now who else???

Comment by CTmomof3 on November 28, 2011 at 9:46pm: Welcome, I would hold off on making flight plans right now. At this early stage anything can still happen and possibly set him back. Graduation is great what kind of info are you looking for?
Write lots of letters it keeps up their spirits. The divisions earn phone call time so it takes a few weeks.

Comment by navymomfromCT (Ship 11, Div.037) on November 28, 2011 at 4:22pm: Hello Connecticut Navy Moms....I live in eastern CT and work in West Hartford...My son left for bootcamp on November 8.....I haven't gotten a call or a real letter as of yet....just the box of clothes.....I was hoping for something on Thanksgiving but nothing.....graduation is set for January 13....I made reservations at the Navy Lodge and looking into flights and car rental....any advise would be great on graduation.....thanks!

Comment by Valtameri on November 17, 2011 at 12:08pm: Proud -- I think that is true -- once they have gone through so much and survived, you do just sort of think that they will live forever. I mean, you don't really think so, intellectually, but somewhere deep inside there is that unspoken expectation and then it is a SHOCK when they go. I must say, I absolutely do not like it.

Comment by Valtameri on November 17, 2011 at 10:46am: What beautiful pictures.

Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on November 17, 2011 at 10:03am: Oops forgot the photo! Sorry.

Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on November 17, 2011 at 9:59am: Thank you for the inclusion, Donna. Just give me name and addy plus zip code and I'll plug it in to my Gamin and be on my way!!

We are headed to NY for Thanksgiving with our DIL and G'daughter, Samantha. Then my husband and son will help her by finishing putting things in the yard away that Matthew didn't get to and readying their house for winter. She is going to VA for Christmas and New Year's with her family. I'm hoping for some time with her here once she gets back. Here's one of the pics they took pre-deployment for Samantha's memory book.