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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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Great Lakes A School Q&A

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Great Lakes A School Q&A

The purpose of this group is to allow family of new sailors assigned to school at Training Support Center Great Lakes a chance to voice questions to a Student Division Commander

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 2332
Latest Activity: Mar 12

Discussion Forum

What happens after ASchool?

Started by SailorMom18. Last reply by Phoenixmom Feb 13, 2019. 1 Reply

BECC Info?

Started by adubz33. Last reply by SuBHuni34 Nov 29, 2018. 9 Replies

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Comment by Butterball on November 30, 2017 at 11:39am

I will be talking with him later today. Maybe there will be some good news, thank you for the encouragement.

Comment by Phoenixmom on November 30, 2017 at 11:06am

Butterball don't be sad, has he tried asking about his chit? maybe it got misplaced? has he checked his email? I'm sure there is a good reason behind it. My fingers crossed that you hear something soon.

Comment by Butterball on November 30, 2017 at 10:59am

Thanks Phoenixmom, but now I am sad, it has been longer that two weeks. Hopefully this week I will hear something and Nicole.dm I will tell him to check on the board too.

Comment by Anti M on November 30, 2017 at 10:38am

About the only place they can't go on leave is out of the country, and they can do that with written permission.  They simply have to provide a general itinerary and have a contact number.  He may be setting you up, or may actually be going to a friend's home in Florida.  

Comment by Phoenixmom on November 30, 2017 at 10:32am

Good Morning Ladies, Hi mommamia93 so good to hear your son is doing Great, fingers crossed he is trying to surprise you, what an awesome surprise!

Comment by Allison on November 30, 2017 at 2:08am
Yes. They can go anywhere on leave after, as long as they don't leave before they "detach" from their current duty station and they report on time to their new duty station. My husband has to write a general idea of what he's doing when he has a leave request, but no one has ever stopped him from doing anything. The most important thing for them was being able to get in touch with him. For A school specifically, we went to his family home, but we knew a small handful of people who didn't or opted for a "real vacation" instead to use their words.

It could still be a set up though. He may be counting on you thinking he absolutely could fly to Florida if he wanted. That would be such a fun surprise!
Comment by mommamia93 on November 29, 2017 at 8:46pm

Okay, I think I'm being set up.

My son graduated from A School this morning.  He's been telling me that he was going to visit a friend in Florida before coming home to Los Angeles.  He's stationed in San Diego. 

Are they allowed to just travel all over creation when leaving A School or do they need to go either home or the base they are stationed?  I think (HOPING) it's a set up and my kids are trying to surprise me.

Comment by nicole.dm on November 29, 2017 at 10:56am
Mine saw her name highlighted somewhere in her ship. Might check for something like that
Comment by Phoenixmom on November 29, 2017 at 10:46am

Butterball my son said they sent him a Email with his chit approved. he received it a few weeks ago.

By the way Good Morning Ladies hope all is well, was gone all day yesterday had a to attend a  district meeting to attend, not really into big meetings but Mandatory. LOL

Comment by Butterball on November 28, 2017 at 11:20pm

Yes ma'am, gotcha Thank you again

 

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