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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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Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms!  (Hint:  When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

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Navy.com Para Familias

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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USS Higgins (DDG76)

For families that have a loved one serving on board the USS Higgins.  

Members: 12
Latest Activity: Dec 31, 2013

Links, pictures and other information:

Link to the Navy.mil ship's website:  http://www.higgins.navy.mil

Follow the ship on twitter:   https://twitter.com/USSHIGGINS  (@USSHIGGINS)

Ship's official facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/USSHIGGINS?fref=ts

Command Ombudsman:

Dana - contact @ usshigginsombudsman@gmail.com

USS Higgins Ombudsman's facebook page:  

https://www.facebook.com/usshiggins.ombudsman?fref=ts

(Closed group, friends by request only,  please be sure to give your sailor's name when you send a friend request)

USS Higgins FRG (Family Rediness Group)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/173635586116017/

(Closed group, friends by request only,  please be sure to give your sailor's name when you send a friend request)

OPSEC Points : 
Don’t discuss current or future destinations or ports of call. 
Don’t discuss current or future operations or missions. 
Don’t discuss current or future dates and times of exercises or missions. 
Don’t discuss readiness issues and numbers. 
Don’t discuss specific training equipment. 
Don’t discuss people’s names and operations. 
Don’t speculate about current or future operations.

Remember "Loose lips, sink ships"

Discussion Forum

good snack to send our kids

Started by Kelly. Last reply by Debbie (Kevin's mom) Apr 9, 2013. 1 Reply

Hi every one just wanted to start a discussion about the best things we can put together to send our kids if we can get enough items together we can create a master list since they are in a hotter…Continue

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Comment by Marge730 on October 19, 2013 at 10:23pm

Debbie, I just realized that your Kevin's mom, Tyler and Kevin are friends. I met Kevin at homecoming and had a chance to talk to him on the phone when they were on deployment.  :-)

Comment by fbettyboop on September 23, 2013 at 4:48pm

praying hard, please lord let them found

Comment by fbettyboop on September 8, 2013 at 8:17pm

i think its October too.

Comment by fbettyboop on September 3, 2013 at 10:53am

does anyone know what month they change from the whites to the blues uniform

Comment by fbettyboop on July 20, 2013 at 10:59am

hi debbie do you know anything about the tiger cruises?

Comment by fbettyboop on June 28, 2013 at 2:44pm

Debbie- that sounds great i would like to skype too maybe the next port hopefully

Comment by fbettyboop on June 22, 2013 at 10:48pm

hope everyone got hear from there son or daughter when they were in port, i did and it was so nice

Comment by fbettyboop on May 19, 2013 at 11:58pm

can i get my picture from facebook to put on here

Comment by fbettyboop on May 14, 2013 at 12:41pm

anyone working on the pillowcases for halfway party, i still don't know what i'm going to do

Comment by Marge730 on May 13, 2013 at 3:50pm
Even though we only live 2 hrs from SD we're not sure if we can make it to the half way party. I know we can't discuss dates but does anyone know if we'll get a good advance notice on a homecoming date? By the way Happy belated Mothers Day to all the moms
 

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