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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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A little about me:
I'm a divorced mom of 3 girls 22,16,and 12
I am here to support my
Son/Daughter
Stage of (Sailor’s) Navy career?
Waiting to leave for Boot Camp
When I heard “Navy,” I...
Was concerned or afraid

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At 5:12pm on December 26, 2012, vay's mom said…
My daughter left 4 boot camp on Dec 9.And yesterday I received a phone call what a happy mom I was*******she's in DIV 089ship12 anybody with a son/daughter in DIV 089
At 4:32pm on November 8, 2012, BunkerQB said…

Thanks. Please look at the info in the Survival Guide too.

In a N4M Blog, one of the moms wrote:

"I will be praying for ya'll children an ask god to protect them all GOD BLESS US AND KEEP OUR BABIES SAFE AMEN!!!!!!"

I responded with the following:

"Ladies, your sons and daughters have gone to United States Navy Recruit Training Command. They are safe. They are going there to be trained to become a Sailor. If successful, they are on their way to a great career with educational opportunities and a chance to see the world. Pray for their success. Pray for them to work hard. Pray for them to NOT miss home and his/her family too much. Pray for them to adjust to new surrounding, new routine, being responsible for following orders. Pray for them to meet new people and find new friends and comrades (teammates, so to speak). For the duration of Boot Camp, they will be well taken care of, they will be housed, fed, trained and paid. You don't need to pray for God to keep them safe, they are safe and under the protection of the US Navy.  If they pass boot camp and subsequent training sessions (A school, C school), they will be performing tasks that are more demanding than most young men & women in their respective age groups are required to do at home.  THIS IS A GOOD THING!  Please, please keep this in mind. Yes, it's harder than you thought - letting go of your child. You never thought you could love and miss your child so much. But that is on YOU. Your sons/daughters have to leave the next at some point. Isn't the Navy a wonderful way to go?  So, go ahead and cry because you baby will probably never be your baby again. But smile and be proud when you are done because your child has qualified to be sent to the Navy RTC."

You are doing just fine. It is expected to feel somewhat weepy at first; however, if you find yourself just really really down and can't get out of the doldrums and need a dose of reality, read my comment. Write lots and lots of letters (plain white envelope, black or blue ink, plain white paper, no perfumed stuff, no color articles, not stickers on envelope). Start planning for PIR. Remember only 4 guests will be listed (12 and under don't count). Read everything in the Survival Guide, especially the info in the official RTC site.

Good luck. Please thank your daughter for us.  My best friend from college has a daughter who is an intel officer. She learned to handle fire arms and jumped out of helicopters.  She'll look amazing to you in her uniform. Talk about tears!

At 3:39am on October 23, 2012, vay's mom said…
Hey any advice for a sad :( but happy :)mom from Charleston waiting 4 her first born to leave 4 boot camp
 
 
 

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