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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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Hello all,

My name is Hallie and I am a proud mentor/friend/step-mom of a new recruit.

This is going to be quite the adventure.  The adventure has already started.  Every persons journey is going to be different. I can only share what ours has been so far.

Once my girl signed up, and because she was 20 she pretty much handled everything on her own.  Our kids want to be adults and handle as much as they can on their own.  The decision to go into the Armed Forces is such an honorable decision.  BUT, if your child does not have any military persons to guide them through the recruitment process, have them go on you tube and look for navy recruits in boot camp or ones that are posting information to help your son or daughter.  We did not have anyone close to answer our questions with family so my daughter looked on the blogs and sent questions to seaman from our area. She got a lot of help and did pretty good.  Recruiters are there to do one thing and one thing only - RECRUIT YOUR SON or DAUGHTER.  Trust me.  That is it.  The can promise all the pie in the sky they want but the recruit has to pass the ASVAB and test in appropriately and hope that the job they want is available.  ASVAB is important to get your job and RATE in.  If you do not get a rating then the jobs available may not be what your recruit is happy with so know before you go and ask lottsa questions to be informed about the what if's, ands, or buts about the process.

If your child has not taken the ASVAB, or has not been in school for a while I strongly suggest finding the ASVAB practice tests online and reviewing the questions ahead of time or getting the ASVAB study guides.  Have your child look up the ASVAB or RATING scores for jobs so they know what they need to score to get into the job they want.  My girl scored under what job she wanted and is going in as unrated and that is not the way we would have liked it to be but she procrastinated and got stuck. 

Most of all get help before making decisions that they have no experience in.

MEPS is the process of taking the ASVAB, getting your physicals, paperwork, job/rating and all your pre-paperwork done before your official swearing in on their ship day. Ship day is the day they have to report back to MEPS for their final paperwork, physical, etc and ship out to boot camp.

We had a great experience at the Spokane, WA MEPS facility.  I spent 5 hours waiting for  her to process and complete her first swearing in as a commitment to enlist.  I am not sure if that is what you call it but that is what we called it.  All the MEPS personnel were absolutely great.  Not only does the recruit go back and forth from room to room and then wait, and then back to room to room but the Recruiters and other military personnel check on you and help you as the parent to understand the process.  They will answer your questions and are great men and women. After my girl was done we had her ship date of March 21st and that is when we would return for shipping to boot camp.

Now onto Ship day and the final swearing in...

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