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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
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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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 0 Likes
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 0 Likes
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 0 Likes
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 1 Like
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 HoneyLemonTea on July 29, 2019 at 11:34pm
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Are we allowed to send feminine hygiene products or do they need to buy them at the NEX?
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Comment by Anna on July 22, 2019 at 10:42pm
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MilMom,
Sorry don't have an answer for you about the makeup on the whites. My daughter Catherine said she always put a towel over her face when putting on her whites so she didn't get makeup on her uniform. And daughter Jennifer wears a flight suit all the time so she hasn't been in her whites since commissioning!!!! But I'll ask around and if I learn something I will pass it along.
Hope everyone survived this heat wave we were having. We had no problems, but I heard there were some nasty storms across the country. Hope everyone is ok!!!
Got to visit New York and spent a day visiting the 9/11 Memorial. It can still wrench your heart remembering the events of that time.
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Comment by flygraceful on July 22, 2019 at 6:58pm
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5PurpleTulips - yikes! That's good to be prepared for. My daughters all have their particular products and brands they like to use. Generally when females live in close quarters or spend a lot of time together, their bodies often sync putting them within days of each others cycles. So.... those products could go fast.
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Comment by 5PurpleTulips on July 22, 2019 at 2:33pm
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I would NEVER talk about this in any other place, but my Girl called (needed some paperwork) so I took the opportunity to ask if there was anything she needed. She asked for 2 things: Bobby Pins and Menstrual products. Regarding the the feminine products she said "Mom, those are all "community items here and the ones I brought, everyone liked and are all gone now so please send more."
I have no idea how big her "community" is, but I thought I'd let the Mom's know this in case you didn't. I'll send more in a couple of weeks. You have to think that at least 25% of gals will have it at any given time.
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Thank you so much ShawnMom and JayDee659!
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Comment by JayDee659 on July 22, 2019 at 5:20am
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Fly graceful, they can be pearl or silver balls. I believe 4mm or less. I'd have to check on the exact size but I know they need to be small. Congratulations on PIR!
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Does anyone know the requirements for earings? I am sending a pair of earings to my daughter for her BC PIR, but wanted to make sure they were the right size and requirement.
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MilMom hi! I'm sorry that I don't have an answer for that one. My daughter has duty tonight but she never wears makeup.
Anna do you have any first hand experience in this?
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Comment by Oleander on July 19, 2019 at 11:54am
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Yay! Great news Mom of a future sailor!!!! Believe it or not you'll look back in a few months and realize boot camp goes by in a blink! Hope you're able to attend her PIR - it's an experience you truly don't want to miss! Once you have her PIR date be sure to join that group too. They'll be able to give you tons of valuable advice!
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Mom of a future sailor that's great! Now you have an address. Make sure you number the envelopes on the outside. Your daughter might get them out of order or many at a time.
How's she liking BC?
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