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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

**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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November 2011 Blog Posts (86)

a little stress release

i get his address today!!! my stomach is in knots and i feel sick but im so excited to finally send him letters. i got his box yesterday from his parents house :) he addressed it to me! haha i know lame but very exciting to finally get something of his that says he's still alive and not just a dream lol im so happy today, im hoping to get his PIR date but we'll see how everything goes.  this blogging stuff really does help kinda let all the pain out, im glad i can write letters and just vent… Continue

Added by flipflops91 on November 2, 2011 at 11:37am — 2 Comments

MEPS

My son made it through the MEPS process and sworn in. He chose the job as a missle tech. I am very proud of him. He leaves for boot camp July 2012 because he wanted to spend his 21st birthday here at home with his family and friends. I love my son dearly.

Added by Christina on November 2, 2011 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

A week from tomorrow!

I can't believe it will be a week from tomorrow and I will see my son!!! 

It seemed like such a long time ago that I watched him turn and go into the hotel after we said goodbye, but it also seems so short at the same time. I marked the weeks by the mail and got mad when there was a holiday that the mail didn't run because it made it one day later for me to get my letter from him. I still read them all.

I can't wait to see him march in with his division, head held high with…

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Added by NavyMom93 (DIV: 823) on November 2, 2011 at 8:30am — 8 Comments

Test Score

My 17 year old daughter took her ASVAB today and scored a 63.... Is that a good score?

Added by denako on November 1, 2011 at 8:37pm — 4 Comments

Life is changing

My situation seems to be a bit different than those I have read about!  I grew up in Titusville, Fl.  I met a wonderful man who was down on vacation (visiting his Aunt & Uncle who I was friends with).  He was from Ontario Canada.  To make a long story short - we were married 2 years later and I moved to Ontario.  We had 3 children (2 daughters and 1 son).  We raised them to not only be proud Canadians, but proud Americans also.  We established their dual citizenships early on.  My oldest… Continue

Added by flgirltwo on November 1, 2011 at 10:45am — No Comments

I now have to help my husband shovel the snow :-(

Shoveling snow has never been a favorite activity of mine, so when my son was old enough and interested enough to go out and help dad I was more than happy to let him. Now with him off to do his own thing I am back out there. Yesterday I was helping my husband with the first snow fall of the year and we were both missing our son big time for two totally different but similar reasons. I, for having this chore back and my husband for having to put up with my way of shoveling (he and our son had a… Continue

Added by salimo98 on November 1, 2011 at 1:39am — 3 Comments

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