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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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Boot camp

My daughter leaves for Great Lakes tomorrow!!!How do other Moms get thru boot camp and all??? Praying it goes fast

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Comment by lisy224 on September 20, 2017 at 12:43pm: Hello,

My son left on 9/13 to IL, I just received his belongings yesterday. I would like to share with all of you that the first couple of days were hard, I cried my eyes out but with a lot of prayer I've been better. Although I got a bit emotional when I received his box. I pray about three times a day for him and all the other recruits in his BC, also for all the moms and dads that are going through the same thing as I am. I really hope that these weeks fly by, I can not wait to see my son when he graduates a Navy Sailor.

Proud Mom

Lisy224

Comment by Grandma D on September 20, 2017 at 1:04pm: I promise you it gets better. My granddaughter left August 1st and will graduate September 29th and we are anxiously awaiting her call this week that says hi Mom I'm a sailor. The first weeks are hard and they make it that way intentionally they need to weed out the ones that are not going to make it. The first 72 hours there is no sleep and it's constantly doing something to them. Our granddaughter cry the first phone call home for about 7 minutes and then the next call she was better. Of course she did tell her mother our chief told us we better not come back from the phone with streaks down her face. LOL the next call was totally better. Her first that are home went from I made a terrible mistake I don't like it here I want to come home and then the next paragraph would be I took this test today and I passed and it made me feel good and I just want to tell you to expect that mother and it's normal. I live beside a navy recruiter and I told him she was crying and he said she's supposed to cry. I guess that means mother's can cry to and grandmothers

Comment by Grandma D on September 20, 2017 at 1:09pm: I got on Facebook and I put in Navy PIR and my granddaughter's graduation date and her division and it connected me with all of those moms and so much easier site to use than this one

Comment by lisy224 on September 20, 2017 at 2:22pm: I have a question, when my son is done in BC and goes to A School for 6 months will he be able to come home on holidays or will we be able to visit him?

Comment by lemonelephant on September 21, 2017 at 12:39am: lisy224, he will not be able to go home for Thanksgiving, but MAY be able to have Leave at some point over the holiday stand down around Christmas and New Years. Yes, you can visit him.

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