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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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

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**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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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AECF - FCs and ETs

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For families that have a loved one serving the Navy as an FC or an ET. This is the place to share and learn more about their jobs and schools. For subs - look for the SECF group.

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Latest Activity: Feb 14, 2023

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Comment by PerriK on June 11, 2018 at 4:03pm: @O'smom ... My son is about 6 weeks from finishing ET A school. While we were talking to him last night he said they got to fill out their "dream sheets" last week, where and what they would like to do for C school. But he said that class 010 is just getting orders and his class is 090 (they go up by 10s each new class he said). So it could be awhile! From what he is saying they typically stay at Great Lakes until next orders.
Just what I was told at this time...

Comment by ellen0502 on June 11, 2018 at 3:30pm: I can't answer the why no "B" school question with complete confidence in knowing, but I do remember reading that sometime in the 60's (or 70's) there was some class consolidation done. Some of what was taught in B School was moved to A, and specialty stuff to C.

Again, I read it somewhere a while back. I will see if I can find the article.

Comment by Allison on June 11, 2018 at 2:37pm: O’smom, it’s so hard not knowing. My husband didn’t get his orders until a couple weeks after he graduated, almost two months after the rest of his class had gotten all their orders. Not saying this is what will happen for him necessarily, but it ended up being that they were trying to make a class out of students from a few different classes behind him for a C School we didn’t even know existed, and it was a really cool opportunity for him. Then, in C School, since it was so long and counted as a permanent duty station, we had to wait for another set of orders. Finally got orders to Bahrain, but they managed to screw up the date of his graduation, so he couldn’t go because he wouldn’t be done with C School. We didn’t know until the hard copy came out, so we’d planned a whole move to Bahrain only to be told we were going to a completely different country just before he graduated and we needed to PCS. I ended up staying in the states for a few months while he got things set up and we waited on paperwork. It’s part of the fun, but definitely stressful. Hang in there!

Comment by O'smom on June 11, 2018 at 1:44pm: Hello everyone. My son is graduating A school next week and still no orders we are going nuts! URG! just had to vent:)

Comment by Natalie on June 7, 2018 at 6:13pm: I'm sure this question has been asked before but here goes. There is A School and C School, but why no "B" school? It has been bugging me :)

Comment by Butterball on May 22, 2018 at 10:10am: Thank you Bandmom, I do know where he will be for C school, guess I will have to wait along with him for where he reports next.

Comment by Bandmom on May 22, 2018 at 10:05am: Butterball, I know how you feel. Everyone had there orders except for my son. He got his orders 1 week before he graduated from A School, then he left 1 week after for his ship. Now they are sending him to C School somewhere else. It is crazy at times.

Comment by Butterball on May 22, 2018 at 9:58am: Oh, okay, will have to check them out this morning, if I get a chance.

Comment by Anti M on May 22, 2018 at 9:50am: All the .mil sites come up as unsecure. They're fine, just older security certificates trip the up to date firewalls .

There's always someone waiting for orders ...

Comment by Butterball on May 21, 2018 at 9:51pm: Anti M, got a message that the link was not secure, so I won't be using it, thank you for the heads up though.