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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:

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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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Mixed Emotions

My son leaves for BC in just a matter of days...I'm not sure I can really actually describe what I'm feeling. One moment I'm perfectly fine, the next I'm sobbing, the next I'm feeling worried about something stupid and then I'm perfectly fine again. I feel like some alien from some whacked out emotional planet came and occupied my body. I am certainly not my normal happy-go-lucky, roll with whatever happens, kind of person right now. It's so hard to have to hide my emotions at times. I think I do pretty good around my son, but we also talked about my "moments" so he understands that I'm not truly sad, but mostly proud.

I'm SUPER excited for my son and he is so ready to go. How can I not be excited for him??? He is getting a chance to do something GREAT for our country and he is learning a trade that he can use in the future and he is learning how to be a contributing member of society and able to handle his life on his own. My husband has been my rock all along because he keeps reassuring me that our duty as parents was to prepare our kids for heading out into the world and giving them the abilities to be a grown up. We have done our job and now we get to see how they carry on without our assistance. It definitely helps me to think of it that way.

I know the path ahead will not be easy, but with the help of God, my family and my wonderful Navy sisters...we will get through this. I just pray that the Lord will comfort my soul when I miss him and that he will protect my son through all that lies ahead for him. Onward into the future...let the ADVENTURE begin!

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Comment by BunkerQB on July 1, 2014 at 6:16pm: Ahhh. I thought if he had flown out of Moffett, I take you out for a drink.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on July 1, 2014 at 9:45pm: Thanks so much for the offer. Holding up. Still on the road home. I'm ready to be home and make myself a stiff drink.

Comment by Brand'sMom on July 1, 2014 at 11:03pm: Hello Sierrascrapper,

My son is leaving to BC on 07/29 and after I read your post I feel that I am not the only one . I completely understand you because I feel the same . Some days I am perfectly fine and other days I am really anguished and I cannot stop crying.

I wish you the best :) Sandra

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Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on July 2, 2014 at 11:25am: Hugs to you Brandon'sMom. This is a tough transition. You will get through it just like so many Moms before us have. Now that we are knee deep in the process, I have other fears and worries and feelings. But it is different now. I can't change things so now all my faith is in God and my son. I know he will get through it and come out a better man and a GREAT Sailor! Just enjoy the time with for Future Sailor for now and be flexible as he might have a lot of things on his mind that he wants to wrap up before he leaves. Hugs to you!