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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!

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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:

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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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Ok, so firstly I kind of feel like the black sheep here on this site. I am not a mom, sibling, girlfriend, or wife of a sailor. I’m just a best friend who wants to know what’s going on. I feel like if I was to post anything here I would be rejected b/c of the friend thing. But when I say best friend I mean just that.  I feel like part of her family, they have taken me in like another child. When I was away at college every time I got the chance to come home for the weekend I would go over to her house everyday.  And after college I still did. When I was having problems with my family, as small as they might have been, I knew that there was a place where I could go and be all hours of the night.  When she left for boot camp I still go over to her house and hang out with her mom, who is such an amazing person.  Now that she is at boot camp it’s like I don’t really have any friends here. All my other friends are far away as well and it was like now I am completely alone. I do not have a boyfriend here to talk to about stuff and just feel like crying sometimes because the person I talk to about everything is gone.  All my other friends are gone and so I do my best to keep in contact with people but there is only so much that can be done.  I do write her a letter everyday and have recently received one back from her.  Now I am doing all I can to be there for her mother as it is doubly a hard time for her, due to recent happenings. I just want to know that she will be ok until we go to PIR in March.  They have done so much for me with out even realizing it.  And I feel like I can never do enough to thank them both.  My hope is that God brings them both comfort during this hard time and that I can do what I can in what ever way possible. 

            I love to read through the PIR group that I joined, also the discussion for her division, and see what is happening with others in bc with her.  I like to see what the other people in this site are going through and know that, although it’s not the same kind of relationship as a mom, wife, g/f, or sibling, I also miss her and only want the best for her.  So if you read this I want you to know that this is not a sob story, or a pity me post. It is just me, a person who misses her best friend terribly and I wish I could do more to help and be there for her family as they go through this hard time in their life.

I have no idea what it must be like to have a spouse, sibling, or b/f, off at boot camp so my heart goes out to you to stay strong until PIR. That is what I’m looking forward to the most, I have started saving for a plane ticket and can’t wait to see my best friend walk out those doors in her uniform having accomplished so much since she left.

 

God bless you all and those you miss off at boot camp.

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Comment by Anti M on January 28, 2011 at 11:03am

Welcome.  I am an aunt of a sailor, and one of my sailors is "just" a friend.  

I know it can be difficult to not have contact, and to feel left behind.  Your sailor's life just jumped into high gear.  No wonder you feel alone. She will be moving at lightspeed, and the changes will seem foreign to you, but hang in there, you will always be the home base.

 

Your support is wonderful. Keep it up. 

Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on January 28, 2011 at 12:10pm
Yes to what Denise said....she will love getting your letters and will probably write you back.  You'll be able to share the experiences she's having and you can keep her up on what's happening at home.  How about printing a funny of picture of yourself or the 2 of you, or a pet, on letter paper and send it along?  My son loved getting little pics of the family printed on a letter.  I don't know if this is true of girls, it sure is for the guys, but don't send envelopes that stand out or muscial cards!  They really get the business for that!
Comment by Angie (Dan's Mom) on January 28, 2011 at 12:17pm

You are very welcome   when does your sr graduate   There is so much to learn and the more people who support our sr's the better   I wish my son's best friend was on here

Comment by PrettyMuchASister on January 28, 2011 at 12:24pm

Thank you all so much. Seeing what you said really helps me feel more welcome here, I have just been following what was going on with other people until now. Her PIR is march 4th, I already joined the group and have been checking in on what people post when ever I get a chance.

Comment by Anita MA Mom on January 28, 2011 at 2:29pm

Hang in there!!  You will love this site, even if you are a ''BEST FRIEND'' . Just write her lots of letters, send her funny cards, do some dumb stuff with the letters , like writing the letter all the way around the page. Make it an adventure for her to read it lol. My daughters fiance wrote to my Sailor a letter with the words all spelled backwards. He said when he got it he thought what the He...  but he thought it was funny . You will stay busy and the time will fly by . Have a great time at her PIR, it is AMAZING thing to see. I am not sure if you still live close to her parents if so visit them often and you both will help each other!! Keep checking and posting on here a world of information you will find, and some great new friends. Stay on her PIR site it is great to hear what is happening in their SHIP. Good luck !

Anita

Comment by PrettyMuchASister on January 28, 2011 at 2:34pm
Anita- Thank you! I go over to her house a few times a week since she left, and staying connected there has been good.
Comment by AJVNavyMom on January 30, 2011 at 6:36pm
Welcome...with open arms!  Heard from our son Thrursday and he said they really like letter, so write, write, write!

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