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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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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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Time Flies!

It seems like yesterday, my sailor was heading out the door to boot camp. After our brief (very brief) visit in Chicago after PIR, I dreaded coming home without him. I found, however, that A school is wonderful! We can text, talk, and Skype often. I can ask about his day, the same day, instead of waiting days or weeks to see how things are progressing. He is home now on leave during holiday stand down time. I know this may be the only Christmas we spend together during his Navy career. I am not sad or worried about the possible lonely Christmas future. I have decided we will celebrate holidays whenever we are together, whether it is December or May. He will visit when he can, and I will visit when I can. This Christmas he is here. I love it. I never realized how many friends he has. Tons of young men and women have been visiting. He has been out with them. Part of me wants to be selfish and keep him here with me. But inside of that sailor's body is my almost nineteen year old son who wants to have a good time with people his own age. Most of his friends are on break from college. He just graduated from BESS, which is the first of four schools he will need for his submarine radioman rating. I am so proud of all he has accomplished in these months. I will continue to cherish this visit long after he goes back to school. For the next two weeks, I will try to make time slow down to a crawl. Flying time is not on my list this Christmas. I pray all my Navy sisters are able to enjoy their time with their sailors, whether by phone, Skype, text, in person, or in their dreams. Have a wonderful holiday season. Time can fly a little in 2012, but only until I get another visit with my sailor.

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Comment by eljac913 (Ship 12 Div 053) on December 23, 2011 at 1:26pm: Hi Aarons mom....How beautiful! So happy you have your son home and are enjoying your time with him. Happy Holidays!

Comment by Aaron's mom on December 24, 2011 at 1:25pm: Thank you for your holiday wishes! Same to you! Enjoy.

Comment by stevensmom on December 27, 2011 at 11:41pm: Thank you for your story my son is leaving for bootcamp in a week and I have been really struglgling with him leaving this really helped me alot just knowing when he gets to his submarine school that I can talk and chat with him makes me have hope.

Happy Holidays