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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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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INFORMED DELIVERY: MAIL SERVICE

I don't recall which mom suggested this but it is amazing. Thank you!

It's a free service offered online from USPS. You simply register and each day it scans and sends images of that days regular mail to your email address. Mon-Friday mine hits at about 8:35 am. Today I received it at 9:35 am.

No more "mail truck stalking"! LOL

Be forewarned, mine did take a few days to kick in.

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Permalink Reply by Butterball on July 1, 2017 at 12:07pm

Awesome, I will definitely check into this when I get home from work today. I found a real time app for our phones, enables us to send text messages with pictures, they reformat it, and send it for us. The loved one receives the picture, text message, a return stamped envelope and a sheet of paper to jot down a thank you. Just another way to stay in touch, almost immediately. Love finding these different tools for us to utilize.

Permalink Reply by SaltyMom17 on July 1, 2017 at 2:12pm

@butterball, yep! That's Sandboxx! Love that app. I recently posted a review of it here.

So glad you signed up for Informed Delivery. It really does help me "go about my day"...without wondering ALL day if a letter is coming or not. THAT was driving me nuts LOL. Learned very quickly that it will come when it comes. As will the "I'm Alive" phone call. You can approximate but no guarantee. Just gotta adjust to "Military Time"....and remember,no news is good news!!

PS Ship 13 Div 247 here

Permalink Reply by Butterball on July 1, 2017 at 2:22pm

I still have so much to learn, got my call Tuesday evening, waiting on the letter and the box. So many crazy mixed up emotions all at one time, never knew it was possible. Can't wait to start sending the letters I have written, and get to use the Sandboxx app.

Permalink Reply by SaltyMom17 on July 1, 2017 at 3:14pm

Despite how you feel now butterball, you'll get there. It's not easy but you will find a "new normal". The thoughts will NEVER stop but your emotions will level out. Trust me. In the beginning, I couldn't talk about his being gone without crying. Now I can talk about it while smiling with pure pride. Keep in mind your box comes FedEx and will have to be signed for. Ours took 5 days (including weekend). The form letter reached us in 11 days. Hang tight, stay strong...just as you tell your child, I will tell you as I was told..."you've got this!"

Permalink Reply by Butterball on July 1, 2017 at 5:37pm

Oh thank you SaltyMom, this brought a big smile to me. I say "I've got this" all of the time, my Choir director gets the biggest kick out of it when she hears it. But that is one of my favorite sayings. I can't wait until I tell her about this at Church tomorrow. I have actually made it most of today without tears, I know it will get easier to handle, but until then, I will just flow with the tide of emotions. I am very proud, just get angry when jerks at work say crappy things. The other day I came very close to punching one detective square in the face. I went to him to ask him a question, because of something about the phone cards I saw on one of these groups. It said something about the card should have gone with the recruit. Well since we were not informed of a few important things we should have been, I asked the retired veteran at my job, for advice. His remark was that I should take my ti--y out of my child's mouth. I was so mad, I went to him for advice, and he was just as rude, ignorant jerk. I told him I was asking about things I had seen, my child had no clue what I was doing, since he was gone a few days before that. I am just waiting for the moment when I will blast Mr. Idiot, next time I won't be so polite. Thank you for the kind words of encouragement.

Permalink Reply by tina0327 on July 7, 2017 at 10:13am