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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:
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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Don't think I can do this!!!
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Comment by JLMsMom on June 30, 2011 at 3:31am
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Love her enough to allow her to see how supportive you are of her choices, how much you respect her abilities to do ANYTHING she wants to do, and how proud of her you are for becoming the woman she'll become! You've given her the tools to become independent. Now, it's time to be supportive of the fact that she's using them.
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Comment by Tay'sMom on June 30, 2011 at 8:18am
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"say goodbye go start the rest of your life without me" - My daughter just arrived in Great Lakes Tuesday night. We had to drop her off with the recruiter Monday at 2pm and I have cried everyday. What I qouted from you is something I think about everyday. I miss seeing her, saying I love you, and giving her hugs. But the one thing that keeps my positive and excited for her is the opportunities, the great people she will meet, and also seeing her accomplish something that not everyone can do. It will get a little easier each day she is there, because that is one day closer to seeing her.
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Comment by Momof3kidz(IT) on June 30, 2011 at 12:56pm
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Thank you ladies for the support. I read this and it gives me peace of mind. My son left 1 week ago today. I can't talk about it without crying. I miss him terribly but I told him before he left, go soar like an eagle. I know he's going to great things but I miss him so much. I just miss my boy!!
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Comment by BunkerQB on July 1, 2011 at 11:30am
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Here there is a group for empty nesters.Honestly, my husband and I long for the good old days. Just this morning, he called our younger son because he hasn't spoken to him in 24 hours! I told him, "Don't call him, he just got off working a 10 hours shift." ......... we rarely take to our sailor when he is out on deployment. That will be a fact of life. Weeks can go by without communications. You will learn to adjust. Yes we are proud of the independent spirit both our sons possess. Nonetheless, as we get older, we cherish and talk endlessly about their childhood escapades like it was yesterday.
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http://www.navyformoms.com/group/emptynesters
We are all here to support each other. Nine of us from my local San Francisco Bay area group got together dinner on Tuesday and shared stories about our sons/daughters. Will get together again for a BBQ on July 30. You could round up people in your local area. There are moms across the country I speak with on a regular basis by phone. I have made some life-long friends through Navy For Moms - women I intend to stay in touch with in the future. You'll make friends too.
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