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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Comment by Lynne on September 24, 2010 at 2:22am
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Good Luck on your journey. You will find yourself in the midst of many of those "moments," Well, at least I do and when I do, people like Jessica, my PIR group, and many others are there to listen, to guide to where I need to go, to provide with the space to breathe and regroup, and the knowledge I need to keep on keeping on. Bootcamp for Moms may be your initial lifeline and then you will add your PIR group. You will wait with bated breath for that Kid in a box and hope for a note in the pocket or the inside of the box. The four lines at the bottom of your form letter will be your lifeline to get you through to your first letter. Then as the first letters roll in you will pray like crazy that yours arrives and isn't slow to get there. Gosh I wish I could tell you what comes next...but that's all the farther I am in this journey. My point is it takes a village, a village of people like you will find on this site who will help you, guide you, and touch your life, for a moment, a season, or perhaps for years. For me, there are people who have played various roles in my ability to survive today and to each of them I say thank you. Your journey is just beginning, buckle up get ready for the ride, and don't miss a minute
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Comment by NavyMom2010 on September 24, 2010 at 11:12am
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Best wishes in this new chapter of your life. You will value this site. Everyone here is so helpful. Our only son joined in may and is currently in A school. I can relate to your husbands experience. Going to the grocery store was my moment. It never entered my mind that would be hard. When I saw all the things I always kept at the house for my son.... that I no longer needed to buy. Now I never hesitate to remind parents of little ones in lines at the store that even though you might not realize it now. "You're gonna miss this". and it will be here way before you know it. Now my son gets monthly packages of all those goodies. :)
Thoughts & prayers are with you all. I feel like I am part of a wonderful new family now. After reading comments from so many moms, I start to feel like they are all part of my family too.
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