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

Events

**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed.  Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).  

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED.  Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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August 2019 Blog Posts (4)

Ship 6?

Good morning and thank you for the service of your loved one!

We have missed two calls from our son in the past few days. One was early in the day on Monday and the other at about 11PM last night. These calls seem unusual in terms of time, and he left no message! I was able to learn that he was calling from Ship 6, but he was originally assigned to Ship 12 with a PIR date of Aug 30th. 

We are dazed, confused, and lost. Does anyone know if Ship 6 houses regular divisions, or RCU…

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Added by Ellen on August 21, 2019 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Thank goodness for this site !

My son left for boot camp on August 13 and my girls and I left for a 10 day vacation to visit their dad who is working out of state the following day. I have been hounding our house sitter for a box and letter . Literally making myself a nervous wreck that it got misplaced and I won’t get to write him , because I am not home and missed the letter . Reading through all the info has calmed my nerves . He joined as a missile tech . We are going into this pretty clueless. We both thought he would… Continue

Added by Jennifer on August 20, 2019 at 1:25am — 5 Comments

Call from son that he changed divisions separated from navy for medical reasons...what does this exactly mean

Hi All,

I've been keeping myself so busy but missing my son so much.  He called and left a voicemail last Aug 13.

In his brief phone call he said that he has been moved to a new division and that he has been separated from the navy due to medical reasons.

What exactly does this mean?  Is he being sent home? or is he injured and just waiting to start after recovery?

Is there any way for us to contact RTC to find out more info?

Thanks so much!

Added by jbrite on August 17, 2019 at 8:51pm — 1 Comment

My Son Shipped on Tuesday...and we are now into the 2nd Day of him being gone.

Good Morning All, 

It has been a whirl wind the last few days. With my son shipping out on tuesday and then trying to come back to our "normal" lives without him. We are all trying to keep busy, which with two other children is not hard. My daughter starts her senior year this year and that is craziness is a nutshell.  My middle son (it is the oldest who join the navy) is getting ready to start college at the local junior college and then there is the normal business of…

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Added by NavyMomofJM on August 15, 2019 at 1:52pm — 1 Comment

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