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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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

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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Great Lakes A School Q&A

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The purpose of this group is to allow family of new sailors assigned to school at Training Support Center Great Lakes a chance to voice questions to a Student Division Commander

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 2332
Latest Activity: Mar 12

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Comment by mom of two on November 1, 2017 at 1:05pm: Seems like this old brain of mine learns something new every day

Comment by barefootie on November 1, 2017 at 12:37pm: My son is in night school now too and really likes it better than the day as far as getting other things accomplished

Comment by Phoenixmom on November 1, 2017 at 12:34pm: Thank You Barefootie you sure are coming right along with this knowledge I like! Yea right now my son said that they are doing night study it gives them extra time to work on class work, because they are pushing a lot at them before stand down, so he has been really busy with duty and night study.

Comment by barefootie on November 1, 2017 at 12:16pm: ATT school is a must pass to enter A school

Comment by Phoenixmom on November 1, 2017 at 12:11pm: Mom of two that is what my son is doing he is in BEQ 634, he is a FN has duty every 3 days and it rotates. he will be a EM also, that is why I was asking because he hasn't started A School as of yet, he is basically in Technical school. A school for EM's last about 6 mnths, that is what my son was told.

Comment by mom of two on November 1, 2017 at 12:07pm: So they need to attend ATT school then start the EM schooling?

Comment by barefootie on November 1, 2017 at 12:01pm: ATT school is 11 weeks

Comment by mom of two on November 1, 2017 at 11:25am: Anti M--how long is the ATT schooling? My son just went from BC to A School at Great Lakes. He is doing firefighting right now........then going on the do EM! He finishes up his firefighting today, then starts hands on. Should finish that coming up here, then onto EM. So.....he told me he would finish up around end of March Early April. So......will this add onto that? We were worried about him making up his borrowed time before finishing A School so he could take a little time after finishing school. If not, not a big deal, he was just hoping I guess!!! LOL.........

Everyone on these sites are so helpful. I think of questions and before I can even ask them, someone else does, which helps so much! Thank you all!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Anti M on November 1, 2017 at 11:22am: As for holidays and weekends, those are normally just liberty days. However, leave and liberty cannot be combined, so if they are on leave, any holiday or weekend will be counted as on leave. Liberty must be taken locally, leave allows for travel. So no, they can't take the weekend and Christmas as liberty, then m-f as leave. Not allowed.

I do have an old blog on here about the difference between leave and liberty.

http://navyformoms.ning.com/profiles/blogs/leave-vs-liberty

Comment by Phoenixmom on November 1, 2017 at 11:22am: Thank You Anti M that is exactly what it is, yes he will be a EM, so now it makes sense, You are Awesome sending much Love to you!