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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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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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December 2010 Blog Posts (94)

BBK'S MOM

Thanks for all your responses right now you guys are my heroes,you have comforted me more than you will ever know.After I read your replies I acually was able to take a deep breath and relax.Now next question can I send my son a care pack at Christmas,Is that ok or not

I dont want to make(waves). Again guys thanks for all

your help. I continue to pray for our new recruits…

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Added by bbkmom on December 4, 2010 at 12:27pm — 2 Comments

Holiday Mail for Heroes

The Red Cross has a program where you can send cards to heroes. The old "any soldier/any sailor" is no longer allowed for security reasons. Those cards are thrown away unless there is a specific name. For details on teh Red Cross program click the link:




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Added by Anti M on December 4, 2010 at 11:28am — No Comments

A PRAYER FOR US DARKHORSE.



We are asking everyone to say a prayer for the US "Darkhorse" 3rd Battalion 5th Marines and their families. They are fighting it out in Afghanistan and have lost 10 Marines in 4 days. Please re-post this. IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE IT ......EVERYWHERE......... Even if......its only for an hour, come on guys...... show... your support. Semper Fi… Continue

Added by BunkerQB on December 4, 2010 at 2:24am — 1 Comment

The call!

I just got my first 20 minute call from boot camp, and Matt is doing well, he had his wisdom teeth pulled on Monday but is back up and in the swing of things.  

PLEASE all write to your loved ones-

Added by groovyghiagirl (778) on December 3, 2010 at 7:30pm — 4 Comments

BBKS MOM

Hello everyone ,Iam an emotional train wreck you know

happy, sad, scared, proud name an emotion or feeling and I think I've had it. PLEASE MOMS CONTINUE TO

POST iT REALLY HELPS.My son left for BC on 12/2/10

I will continue to pray for our new recruits and our military.may god bless and keep you all.

Added by bbkmom on December 3, 2010 at 2:22pm — 5 Comments

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

RELOCATING:

The period of adjustment may take weeks, months or even years. For some who can not let go maybe never. Our family moved from one country to another: different language, different foods, different laws, different culture. No money to speak of - we actually owed our sponsor $10,000 in 1957 to sponsor us to the US - had to pay all that off before moving away from a God forsaken part… Continue

Added by BunkerQB on December 3, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

bbks mom

My son left for BC on yesterday, he has a HX of childhood asthma
right before being shipped to BC HE DEVELOPED a cold.I know the weather there is freezing and my son will have to adapt.We live in GA
AND the weather here is not as cold as it is there,I guess its the
nurse in me I worry about everything.Iam hoping PT is not so intense.
My son is very athletic football and basketball all through school hope this will help him get through it ok.

Added by bbkmom on December 3, 2010 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Please slow the time down!

My son went to his last DEP meeting Wednesday night. (Leaves Jan.4th) I always feared this meeting for I knew it would be close to him leaving us. He was so excited to get his book signed off on and show his total weight loss. (30 lbs!) He is so happy that his leaving is finally nearing. For me, I felt the incredible tug in my heart. I felt the house quieter. I felt the emptiness when I went by his room. I felt the dynamics of our home shift. Before I knew it, the tears were again pouring down… Continue

Added by AJVNavyMom on December 3, 2010 at 9:27am — 2 Comments

Give them wings...and both of you will fly!!!

I wrote this blog post in June/2010 before my son entered boot camp:

"Hey Mom, I want to join the Navy."

"You want to what, with whom, hello, why?

And with those words the roller coaster began, my life turned upside down and my little boy, my only child who I had raised by myself began to grow up. At first, all I could do was cry. He was my only son, an only grandchild. My father had given his life for our country and I thought, "Dear God, not my son." I was…

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Added by Lynne on December 3, 2010 at 2:31am — 5 Comments

So hard to do things alone!

Hello,

I have been married with my sailor for 2 1/2 years; which seems like only 1 year with all the time he has been gone :(

We have a beautiful 15 month son and have been living in VA for almost 2 years. We moved from CA on April 2009, which was very hard for me because I knew that my family would not be able to be with me on my son's birth and all the holidays we are used to celebrating together.

I am an alcohol and drug counselor and have been working since I was 18 years old.… Continue

Added by Isela F on December 2, 2010 at 3:56pm — 2 Comments

received J's box yesterday waiting on my first letter w/PIR date

These past few weeks have been very emotional. My youngest son is almost done with his bc, his PIR is 12-17, we are counting down the days now. My oldest son J left for bc on Nov23, so this was our 1st Thanksgiving without the whole family together. I had surgery on my hand this past Monday and its been hard not being able to use my right hand. I did type a letter to both my boys yesterday w/my left hand. I miss them both so much. It won't be much longer and the hardest part will be behind us.… Continue

Added by luvthemsomuch.shp4div19shp7div55 on December 2, 2010 at 3:46pm — No Comments

Jewelry

Once the femaie recruits graduate from boot camp are they allow to wear earrings & wrist watch?

Added by chicky1951@hotmail.com on December 2, 2010 at 1:27am — 1 Comment

Midland, Texas

Want to meet navy moms in Midland, Texas. I would like to contact and share stories of our Navy family. My son is on USS Dwight Eisenhower - AKA IKE....

 

 

 

Added by MidlandTXMOM on December 1, 2010 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

new life as a navy wife... I'm a mess

On September 6th of this year I got married to love of my life... over the phone :/ In the past 3 months I have spent just under 4 weeks with my new husband because he is stationed in Hawaii and I live in Texas....and he just left for his 7 month deployment. I am a complete and total mess. I have never dealt with anyone in the military. Anyone who was in the service in my family was out before I was born. I've never been through a deployment or anything similar to it. Ive never been away from… Continue

Added by Mark's wife on December 1, 2010 at 12:41am — 4 Comments

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