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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 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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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Moms of Daughters 2

A place to come to for support, guidance, to ask questions and share stories. We are all proud of our Navy Daughters.

Members: 1351
Latest Activity: Mar 18

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Discussion Forum

Care packages for new graduates (a school)

Started by Cali's mama. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Mar 19, 2021. 3 Replies

Looking for current information for my daughter on what's allowed for care packages..idk if it matters that she is in the great lakes location or not..ship 7 div 136...lonely mom with confused tears lol

Bootcamp arrival Sept 8, 2020??

Started by Stephanie0725. Last reply by Shoosh Oct 5, 2020. 4 Replies

Hello! Got the call that my daughter made it to bootcamp quarantine last night 09/08/2020.  Looking for other moms out there on the same timeline. Sadie is my baby, only daughter, and only child in the military.  I think I am going to need lots of…Continue

PIR DATE: December 13, 2019

Started by Donita. Last reply by Donita Nov 5, 2019. 5 Replies

Anyone else’s recruit have a PIR date ofDecember 13, 2019?Continue

Arrived at boot camp October 2nd

Started by Donita. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Nov 5, 2019. 26 Replies

Hey everyone- my daughter left for boot camp October 2nd. I missed a call from her last Friday telling me that her graduation is December 13th. I feel like the worst mom in the world for missing her call. Really didn’t expect her to call so soon but…Continue

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Comment by JayDee659 on February 11, 2016 at 8:18am

Good morning ladies!  I'm on a count down - 13 more days until I see my sailor!

Comment by Bchgrl68 on February 11, 2016 at 1:28am

Thank you for your responses!  She read them all.  Had her first meeting today at the recruiters.  Very excited again and feeling much better.  She actually wants to move up her ship date, don't think it's possible though and I'm certainly not going to encourage that!!!!  The time is going to fly by as it is!!

Comment by Oleander on February 9, 2016 at 12:30pm

Morning everyone!

So glad you saw your ortho and will get some relief, JayDee!

Have a great day everyone!

Comment by JayDee659 on February 8, 2016 at 4:24pm

Good afternoon.  We're having a fun day here in the Ohio Valley.  Over the last week we've had 60 degree temps, rain and today it's snowing again!  Yes, I love the snow!

Oleander, the stuffed jalapeno's turned out pretty good.  Took them to a party and they got high marks.  When we got home though my whole house smelled like them. Didn't bother me, but my husband doesn't care for them much.  Thank heavens for candles.  

I saw my ortho today and got another cortisone shot in my knee.  We agreed that the huge fall I took after the last one probably negated any good it did.  She did tell me that after this shot wears off it's time for an MRI so she can actually fix the problem instead of just treating the symptoms.  

Hope all of you are having a great day!

Comment by Oleander on February 8, 2016 at 11:17am

Morning!

Yep Bchgrl68 - my daughter did too: bc, after A School and before reporting to her ship, it's happened a couple of times but once she worked through her feelings realized she was happy with her decision. I think it's just part of the process. Her PIR was in May, she reported to her ship in August.

JayDee- so happy to know you are (were?) on the mend! You're that young man's hero I'm guessing. Let us know how the stuffed jalapenos turned out. It was Game Day Chili at my house.

Have a good day everyone!

Comment by Oneofalot on February 8, 2016 at 8:59am
Good Morning to Everyone. Happy Monday, we only have 4 more days until a three day weekend.
Comment by LucindaC on February 8, 2016 at 2:48am

Yes Bchgrl68 it is normal to have second, third and even fourth thoughts especially as the day gets closer for them to ship out. My daughter was in DEP for a year. Her father and I are both retired military. I remember my second night in boot camp thinking what the H did I get myself into. It gets better as the time goes on for most of them, hopefully this is what she really want to do.

Comment by Bchgrl68 on February 7, 2016 at 9:57pm

Okay, all.  My daughter wants to know if any of your daughters had second thoughts a few weeks after signing up?  She has talked to her dad who is a Marine veteran and that helped, but she still wants to know if your daughters have had similar experiences.  

Comment by JayDee659 on February 7, 2016 at 11:55am
Good morning! Oleander I took a ski seminar from 8:00 am -3:00 pm yesterday. Knee was tired but okay. Then I worked the midnight shift from 9:00 pm - 3:00 am. Kind of tweeked my knee on a final run to help a young man. He was worse off as it looked like he'd broken his clavicle. I just woke up. Gonna take if easy and have a doctor appointment tomorrow afternoon.

We're going to z Super Bowl party tonight. I'm taking sausage stuffed jalapenos. Never made them before but they sound yummy!
Comment by Oleander on February 7, 2016 at 11:10am

Happy Super Bowl Sunday everyone! 

Hi Gail, welcome! I did the same thing as JayDee, attached or copied pictures to a word document, then printed it out on plain white paper and hand wrote the letters.. She loved pictures of her dogs and horses, funny news or motivational sayings. One of her favorites was a letter "written by her puppy" that included a paw print as signature. You can have a lot of fun with it -- just don't include glitter, stickers on the envelopes, etc.

Travel safe Anna!

JayDee, how's your knee?

We're getting your warm weather now too Catsmom. I'm with you, more cool weather before the heat arrives!

Have fun next week with Aurora Jean!

 

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