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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:
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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- 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
Discussion Forum
leave after A/C school-- orders are confusing
Started by MANDY. Last reply by Anti M Aug 16, 2019. 2 Replies 0 Likes
What happens after ASchool?
Started by SailorMom18. Last reply by Phoenixmom Feb 13, 2019. 1 Reply 0 Likes
BECC Info?
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Comment by Vee, Michael's Proud Grandmother on March 22, 2009 at 3:22pm
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Will, I sure understand that one (about asking the wife)....have a great day!
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Will...I can lead you to an awesome bike for sale...Honda 1800 VTX with all the trimmings...My friend has 3 now and has to sell one of them. Loved the sailor poetry....lol
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Laurie...it's still too cold for me, too! Even with leathers~~ My friend rode with some of the club members Friday when it was almost 80 here, but I had an appointment and couldn't make this ride. Now, we'll wait until the next warm day. Hope you have a good ride today if you go...
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Roni...it just started snowing here....but I don't think it will stick. Gotta run and take my doggie outside for his morning tour of the back yard.
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Good morning everyone! You guys are making me hungry talking about veggies and gardens! Yes, RONI, "March Madness" means outdoors and spring cleaning inside for me, too. I did more leaves yesterday until the winds came up, so I hurried and put the tools up and got inside. Woke up to rain this morning with a few snow flakes, but the snow isn't sticking...so it's inside work today. I could use a Tiger Balm patch today, but have to drive 20 miles to get one, so I'll tough it out.
Will, I take it the knee is all better now?
Everyone have a great day wherever you are!!!!
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Comment by kim ann on March 22, 2009 at 12:05am
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My boys have gone there also. All the mail comes to my house, but as it has their name on it, I do not open it unless they have asked me. I feel it is their own now, and I now relinguish all the rites of passage to them. They are responsible young men, and I will treat them as such. When I went to my sons PIR, I had taken their mail up to them, and one bank statement had said the same thing, plus they had mailed cards to our "home" address. It does not harm their accounts, nor closes them till they get to straighten it out. In BC they do not get to use their money anyhow, so it really did not matter. Even to this day, their account statements come here, which I either keep them till I get their next address to mail them all to them, or till they come home. Whichever they request from me.
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Hoppi....thanks for the kind words! All I can say is that we have sent them into the best hands ever!!!! Have a great night~~
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Welcome, Nancy! You have come to the right place to get your questions answered and to meet a fun group! One of our "Top Guns" (Will, Hoppi or Chris D.) will be sure to answer your question about sending money. Have a great weekend!
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Welcome, Maura! You have come to the right place to get your answers. You will hear from Will, Hoppi or Chris D shortly. In the meantime, congratulations to you and Nick on his upcoming PIR. What is Nick going to be? My grandson is going to be a GM (Gunners Mate)...Have a great day! Vee
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Roni...they were having problems with the slideshows and pics earlier this week...some of the Moms had posted. I don't know what is up!! I hope it will correct itself cuz I've got to get outside...my yard is calling! Have a great day..
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