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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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Great Lakes A School Q&A

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Great Lakes A School Q&A

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

Discussion Forum

What happens after ASchool?

Started by SailorMom18. Last reply by Phoenixmom Feb 13, 2019. 1 Reply

BECC Info?

Started by adubz33. Last reply by SuBHuni34 Nov 29, 2018. 9 Replies

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Comment by Anti M on November 21, 2009 at 12:34pm
Tiffany, smartmove is new to me, so I don't have answers, sorry! We used to call PPO, they'd send someone out to see how much stuff we had, then they would come and pack it all up. It was very important for them to pack it and not us, for insurance purposes. Even our stereo, we had to leave the boxes open so they could see we wouldn't claim damages later. Don't know if that's still true. I'll try and find out. If you have a phone number, do call it right away Monday morning.
Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2009 at 4:55pm
I went to ET A school in Glakes, not boot camp, I got to go through basic in Orlando when the Navy had a base there.
Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2009 at 4:54pm
The grinder... I never saw much f it, we marched some, but not in winter and the PO who was supposed to take us didn't much like doing it and was always "busy". LOL, much stricter these days.

The grinder is a paved area used for drill practice.

Smoke, packing is the price you pay for a place to stay. I'd say have fun, but that's not right, is it?
Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2009 at 2:36pm
Thanks Connie, that makes sense. That was the female ET and female BE/E barracks while I was there, plus the Marines had a floor above us. Four of the Marines came down the fire stairwell (we were only allowed to use one, the rest were secured) with paper bags over their heads in their skivvies and ran around our floor. ALL the Marines got in trouble, even the females, until they coughed up the guys who did it. We thought it was funny, but the COC surely did not.

Now if I can only find out what it is named! We used building numbers then, and I don't remember what mine was.

BE/E is now called ATT.
Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2009 at 1:10pm
Thanks for indulging me, Kelly!
Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2009 at 12:45pm
And now I'm wondering if I have the corner right... I think I do, but it could be Evans and Paul Jones. Used to be on Google maps, but they've taken away the satellite pics for security reasons.
Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2009 at 12:33pm
Will someone ask their sailor which ship is on the corner of Nimitz Ave and Paul Jones St? That's my old barracks, and I'd love to know which "ship" it is now. it is on the same block as the old chow hall.
Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2009 at 12:29pm
Good to hear, david's dad!
Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2009 at 11:00am
During Christmas break, some of the barracks close up entirely. The sailors from those ships can lock their stuff up. Others will have to take all their stuff with them. I don't know which ships do which, but I'm guessing the older temp barracks are the ones taking in the sailors from the ships which are shutting down. That would mean the sailors in the more temporary ships are the ones who have to move all their stuff. This is when having friends who love offbase come in handy, have the friends hang on to their things.
Comment by Anti M on November 19, 2009 at 8:12pm
David's dad, I hear you... my stepson is in the Army, and his mom has always cut off communication. She said terrible things about his dad, and always lied to us so she didn't have to send him to visit. Now, we don't know where he is, and she won't even answer her phone. My hubby might be a grandfather, but we don't know for sure. Keep working at the relationship, and hope he'll turn around when he matures. That's what we're hoping for.
 

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