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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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Rec' form letter

I'm new to this but wanted to have contact with someone who is going
Through the same emotions. I received my daughter's box the other
Day and the form letter today. I heard she would be able to write a few
Lines but that was not the case. Her PIR is October 11th. She is on Ship
12 Div 387. I am elated and mailed off her letters today.

1 member likes this

Comment by lemonelephant on August 24, 2013 at 10:59pm: josephine, you can write now, just don't mail anything until you get the form letter. Numbering the letters will help your SR know the order if it makes a difference. That sometimes help to feel connected even before the form letter comes.

Comment by kcostello on August 25, 2013 at 11:04pm: My son left on the 13th and we received his box. To see his phone on top was hard because it was always on him. I cannot wait to hear from him and hope and pray he is doing okay.

Comment by Mamadonna on August 27, 2013 at 5:37pm: Question for all who may know. When you go to the Facebook page, is the picture of the recruits, the recruits that are actually in PIR 10/11/2013?

Comment by lemonelephant on August 27, 2013 at 8:11pm: The PAO at the RTC posts random photos and sometimes identifies the division/s within the photos. Family members usually identify someone in the photos so that the division number is known. The PAO also has restarted Trivia Tuesday in which they ask a trivia question related to the RTC and the first one with the correct response wins a photo of the division of his/her choice. Just keep checking and you may catch a glimpse of your recruit. They post photos of most PIR's so your Sailor may be in one of those.

Comment by Mamadonna on August 28, 2013 at 4:23pm: Thank you lemon elephant, you are a wealth of information!

Comment by Mamadonna on August 28, 2013 at 4:27pm: To CatMom509, I appreciate all the daily Bible verse you post. They are very comforting and no better words then those that come from the Lord!