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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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My son arrived at RTC on 11/15/11. His current contract has him as a Mineman and I am looking to see if there are any other Mineman Moms out there that have sons/daughters who are going in or have just arrived! Mineman is such a small community that it is hard to gather information about the rate, and would like to hear stories or talk about what our children are doing!

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Latest Activity: Jan 6, 2021

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Comment by alice on December 17, 2013 at 3:28pm: MADre, sorry BC is boot camp. Hopefully you will be able to communicate with your son while he's in Bahrain, either through computer or phone. I don't know how that part works. After the 18 months will he be going back to San Diego?

Comment by MADre on December 16, 2013 at 4:05pm: Hi Alice, not sure what BC means. My son will be stationed in Bahrain for 18 months. I know he is excited and looking forward but I can't seem to share the same excitement with my worries and concerns. I got use to the long distance except this time it is too far away from home.

Comment by alice on December 14, 2013 at 1:29am: Hi MADre, I'm also new here. I know how lost I feel and my sons only in BC. That's why I'm so glad for sites like this so we can go through these things together. Does your son know where he will be going yet?

Comment by MADre on December 12, 2013 at 11:16am: Hello everyone. I am new MN Mom. My son gives me little details about what training he is doing and only shares the fun stuff. Glad to hear him a good spirits. It appears that he has completed his training and deploys in January. I am feel so lost and don't know what to expect.

Comment by alice on December 11, 2013 at 10:51pm: Hi Everyone, I just joined the MN moms site and I don't know if this is the same site or different. (sorry newbie here LOL) My son is currently at GL for BC and his PIR is 1/10/14. His recruiter told him he would be leaving straight from PIR and going to Texas for A school, but from what I see that isn't so. It looks like the A school for MN now is in SD and that first they stay in GL for a few weeks for IT training then go to SD. Is this true? I only have my hotel booked until Saturday because I thought he was flying out to Texas. If he's staying in GL then I can spend the whole weekend with him and I'll have to get the hotel for another 2 nights. If anyone can help, It would be deeply appreciated :)

Comment by mikesmom88 on November 15, 2013 at 6:58pm: My son is graduating on 12/6/2013, any other MN moms have kids around that time. Son told me he just met someone with the same rating but didn't say his name.

Comment by Paige ship14 div 161 PIR4/26 on November 11, 2013 at 9:38am: Ryan's mom-

They are able to have their cell phones and laptops after graduation! They are able to use them whenever they are not in class! My husband graduated back in April and finished in Great Lakes in June then he was off to San Diego! Let me know if I can answer any thing else!

Comment by mikesmom88 on November 10, 2013 at 9:57pm: Advanced Technical Training and I have heard they can have cells after graduation, but only use them on liberty.