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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

Events

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

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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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I am new to this, when my husband was in the Navy we did not have internet.  This is really awesome!

Now I am going to be a Navy mom.  I am so PROUD of my son!!!  He is in DEP and ships out in Aug.

We live in Buckeye, just moved here to AZ in March.

Just wanted to say HI

Mika

 

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Welcome Mika!!!  It's a roller coaster ride, but it's a good one!!!

Thank you!!!

Happy Holidays!!

  welcome! If your husband was Navy then you already have a clue as to what to expect, that's good. Be sure to join a DEP site & then when he goes to BC there will be  a site for those who have the same PIR date, they will be very helpful.  I don't know what it's like to be a Navy wife, but it is a wild roller coaster ride as a navy mom!  When does he leave for boot camp?

Its been a little over 20 years since my husband was in the navy and I loved it!!  I am so proud of my son I told him I want a Navy mom shirt.   I found an old Navy wife sweatshirt last night LOL. He leaves Aug 9, 2011.

We are going to San Diego for a few days and we wee told we could get a tour of the base do you know if that is possible?  My son says we can on his ID?

Thanks for the kind words!  Happy Holidays!!

 

I've been through this once & am going through it again.  #2 son leaves in May.  It's really great to have these sites to understand what everyone is going through.  I didn't sign up for any until last December, after my son had already re-enlisted.  Which I had done this when #1 son was going through all of this - DEP, BC, etc.  Would have made things a lot easier.

I would be thrilled if my 16 yr decided he wanted to join also!!

Right now he is set on college which is good.  Maybe I can talk him into an Officer program LOL

 

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