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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).

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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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USS ALASKA

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For Moms or Wives who have loved ones on the Alaska, either Blue or Gold Crew.

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Latest Activity: Jul 18, 2022

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Comment by karinabeana611 on April 20, 2013 at 9:59pm: Hahaha okay :) This is great! :) At this point, I'm just going to keep track of weeks and go from there. I'm overestimating when he'll be back so I'm pleasantly surprised when he gets back sooner! Thanks so much for the info! :)

Comment by karinabeana611 on April 20, 2013 at 5:20pm: Thanks for the info! Alex (my boyfriend) went to Nuke school in Charleston, too and visited some of his friends on the way down to GA. :) I've heard so many good things about the Alaska, so I'm happy for him in that regard!

Another question: do you get to know when they will be coming back into port later in the deployment or is that something where you just get a phone call from them when they reach their phone after getting off the sub?

Comment by karinabeana611 on April 20, 2013 at 2:00pm: Wow, thank you so much! :) It's so nice to be able to be in touch with people that have sailors on the same sub! :) My sailor is originally from Montana, but was stationed up here in CT for BESS and Torpedo A school, so that's when I met him. :) I'll definitely try the numbering thing. Does it matter what the subject says? I read somewhere that it has to be their official rank/name (MM3 Alex Clark) but I guess maybe it doesn't matter. :) Have a great day everyone!! :)

Comment by Kathy on April 20, 2013 at 11:50am: My son was in sub school when my dad, (his grandfather) passed away. The school was so good in get him leave and on a plane home for the funeral. The funeral was in April and in Aug. of that year we had to bad hurricanes with in 2 weeks of each other. The school lined them up in formation and ask if anyone had family in the area. If course my son was the only one, they asked him if he need to go home. He told them no my mom is good. The boat even called my sister when Sandy came through. I never got that kind of support when my ex was in Desert Storm. They sure have come a long way in taking care of the families. But the Emergency Email is a good thing to know, thank you for the info.

Comment by Kathy on April 20, 2013 at 7:17am: Welcome aboard, the best way is to number your emails so you know how many and in the order that they come. This is my sons 5th patrol, he will be leaving the boat in July, he has been on the boat for 4 years, and wanted to do another but could not. He will be going to shore duty for 3 years and hopefully back to Kings Bay. If you have any more questions just ask.

Comment by karinabeana611 on April 19, 2013 at 10:49pm: I just joined this site and found this group and it's so helpful, so thank you to everyone! I'm not a mom or a wife (yet) but I'm a girlfriend of a sailor on the Gold Crew. This is his first deployment so we're both getting used to everything. It's awesome how frequent emails come, but it's a little confusing as well. Have any of you found a good system that works to keep track of which emails he gets/his replies? Any advice would be awesome. Thanks :)

Comment by Kathy on April 19, 2013 at 4:57pm: Glad you got to talk to your son also. I have gotten a call from mine also, he had gone out for a week with the blue crew then this boat would come out and get him after a week and bring him in. Of course he had to call his mom as soon as he got on that other boat. Usual when he is in port he calls me almost every night. It is just him and me so who else is he going to call.

Comment by NavyMomLG on April 19, 2013 at 1:39pm: So glad you finally heard from your son Kathy. Mine actually called me last night. I just smile after I hear from him. I don't think they realize how little it takes to make us moms happy!

Comment by Kathy on April 19, 2013 at 11:11am: Well I got my sons 4 email last nigh. He is so sweet he keeps telling me to get out to the house and do something, and I keep telling him if I get out I am going to spend money. I am now a student again back in college and I don't need to spend money.

Comment by Kathy on April 17, 2013 at 5:32pm: Don't know if your son is going with you but there in a Navy base down and they have a Navy lodge there.