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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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After a really bad day at work I came home to find my son's box has arrived. I received a phone call on my cell phone with and IL area code and I got very excited then worried that something was wrong and the call turned out to be a recording from Shaquille O'Neal for the March of Dimes. I guess no news is good news. Looking forward to next week; hopefully I will receive a letter from my son. Hope tomorrow morning traffic is better than this morning and I hope the attorney who pissed me right at 5 has a much better day tomorrow.

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Comment by MattsMom (Division 212) on April 25, 2012 at 7:51pm

Poor thing! Smile through those tears cause it will get better! Not sure how long your son's been gone, but it takes about 2 weeks to get a letter. My son left March 14th and we gor our first letter April 11th, because he had his wisdom teeth pulled and slept thru mailing them out. They only get to mail on Sunday to begin with. Not trying to upset you :) just preparing you. It was the hardest time of my life so far! But it will get better and for me once we hit the half way mark, it has flew! My son graduates on May 11th, only 15 1/2 days!!! So hang tough and keep your chin up! And come here, they are great on blogs or in the chat room, lots of info and shoulders that have been there!

Comment by momof4 on April 26, 2012 at 10:26pm

You got to love that box! My daughter just graduated 4/13 and I still have her box in the livingroom by my chair. I have taken somethings out and returned to her but I enjoy it being there. Keeping her close. I just keep telling myself that my daughter part of the best Navy in the World. Couldn't be prouder! As you get closer to PIR, all those downs will go away! You will fill with so much excitement that these days will soon be forgotten. I get to see her this weekend, 2 weeks after her PIR. She is now in Pensacola. I'll keep you in my prayers. You'll be fine. Just keep smiling!!

Comment by Motorwife on April 27, 2012 at 1:43pm

My son left for BC on April 19th!  Received my box at the beginning of this week and boy was I sad :(.  He is my youngest of 3 sons (he is 22) and I am feeling the empty nest.  I guess the hardest part is not being able to talk to him.  I've been doing better the past few days, have stopped crying at the drop of a hat, but my heart is still heavy with missing him.  Don't get me wrong, I am soo happy for him, proud of him beyond words, but the mommy inside me still wants to protect him.  I've been saying lately that if I knew he was going to grow up and join the Navy I would have yelled at him more in preparation for BC, lol.  Darn, missed opportunity :).  I can't wait to get a letter or a phone call, am having anxiety over exactly when he will graduate so I can the flight/hotel arrangements.  Driving me crazy because it's out of my control!  Have learned about myself that I am just a tad controlling, haha.  Just missing my boy and wanting to give him a big hug!  Secretly hoping that even at the age of 22 he misses his mom just a tad even though I know I embarrassed him when he left with his recruiter because I was crying hysterically at the car window, sorry!  P.S.  Have to mention that before he left I was always nagging him about wearing too much cologne, but let me tell you, that stinky sweatshirt with the smell of that days old lingering cologne never smelled so good!  :)

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