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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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AECF - FCs and ETs

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.

Members: 834
Latest Activity: Feb 14, 2023

Discussion Forum

Anybody out there?

Started by Jules. Last reply by Bandmom Aug 24, 2021. 2 Replies

Current A school at GL for AECF?

Started by BessLynn423. Last reply by ANOsMom Nov 11, 2019. 1 Reply

Anyone graduating A school on 10/26/18

Started by Dena4. Last reply by Anti M Oct 9, 2018. 2 Replies

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Comment by Allison on October 3, 2018 at 2:38pm

They also have field days about once a week…not the fun day of games and candy prizes from grade school, but rather a day of breaking out the big guns cleaning wise. My husband was fortunate enough to be assigned to the room where they checked out supplies, so he was able to avoid most of it. 

Comment by Anti M on October 3, 2018 at 2:08pm

Oh, cleaning can be boring ... he isn't idle is more like it.

Comment by drmary on October 3, 2018 at 12:45pm

well then he certainly must not be bored lol!  thanks anti m

Comment by Anti M on October 3, 2018 at 12:11pm
Oh, and to add in, they tend to get a little more time off in the afternoons if the person in charge can't find enough work and lets them go on liberty early.

They still need to do PT, sometimes there will be training courses on assorted subjects, and they have to keep their rooms and uniforms clean and up to inspection standards. Lots of things to stay on top of.
Comment by Anti M on October 3, 2018 at 12:09pm
Having been on long holds at Great Lakes, they are indeed given daily jobs. Some get assigned to office work, some clean, others get landscaping details, or snow duty in the winter. The Navy doesn't hire janitors, after all. There is always something to be done. A few will get a job that is the same thing and place daily, others are assigned as needed. I've done stints answering phones, raking leaves, cleaning the dental offices, picking up trash, painting the barracks lounge ... with all that free labor, training bases tend to look nice and neat.
Comment by drmary on October 3, 2018 at 10:47am

morning ladies.. when the lads are on "hold" do they spend a lot of time just hanging out or are they given anything productive to do besides their assigned guard duty?  my son is enjoying his new independence and doesn't share much detail and i'm not pushing- but i'm darn curious!

Comment by Jack's Momma on October 1, 2018 at 3:20pm

Anti M and Heather,

Thank you I have not been back on here because my son ended his 2 year relationship with her and i am heart broken for both of them. I cried for 2 days and to  some that might seem ridiculous but she has been like our child for 2 years, her family is not the best and she wants to be part of our family. I have gotten better the last couple days. he has agreed to keep in contact with her and i pray they can mend only if to be friends again. they moved pretty fast getting engaged and we tried to tell them but to  no avail now we are here and its terrible. They both need to mature and when he is gone first to  Cali then to Japan he may grow up really quick. As far as the behaviors we didn't even ask him but he knows he can be masted. He will have to own it if that happens. thank you for your kind words.

Comment by drmary on September 28, 2018 at 10:58am

Anti - thanks that was super helpful as was your earlier comment about “maturing” after a couple of deployments

Comment by Anti M on September 28, 2018 at 9:41am

DrMary ... most FCs will go to a ship first after C school, as their rotation begins with sea duty.  Which ships will be determined by which C school and system they train on.  Any Navy port with surface ships is a possibility.  Could be Norfolk, WA, San Diego, Hawaii, Japan, and any of the other homeports.  You can rule out any air base or submarine base.  First term sailors can fill out a dream sheet, but they're sent according to needs of the Navy.

Comment by Anti M on September 28, 2018 at 9:37am

LOL, yes, I said he was an adult, but most "adult sailors" don't finish growing until they've been deployed a couple times ... even then we were all big kids some days.

 

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