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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.
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.
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Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
**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:
**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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Please help!! My daughter left for bc on 2/14 and her contract says she enlisted in the airman(PACT-AN) program because she was unsure what job she wanted to choose.She is 22 and sighed on her own and now I'm trying to figure out what this means.She scored 72 on her ASVAB and her recruiter told her enlisting this way she can get an idea of what job she wants.Can you please give me some insight of what this means....thank you,any info. will help.
Lucina
When recruits are enrolled in PACT, they get a general overview of one part of the Navy -- in your daughter's case, the Naval Air Force. Usually, it's a three-week orientation after Recruit Training (Boot Camp). When she arrives at her first duty station, she will already understand the basic functions of the division to which she's assigned AND she'll understand how they interact with the rest of the crew. It beats getting dumped onto a ship or Naval Air Station with no idea who does what.
Believe me, the Navy wants to get as much out of your daughter as they can and they want to have her do well. If she shows intelligence and initiative, she will be advanced, possibly getting a Class "A" school later. She just can't sit around and wait for something to happen. She has to make it happen after she gets settled on her ship or station.
On this website, go to the tab called Groups. You can find a group called the A Pact Program which may be a place to post further questions.
It's here --> http://navyformoms.ning.com/group/qawitharecruiter/forum/topics/a-p...
John
Thanks John,
I really appreciate your info. and the link..thank you.I'm full of anxiety wondering whats going to happen.My daughter Ashley is intelligent and not afraid of hard work.I just hope and pray it will all work out.
Take care,
Luciana
Hi, again.
I was away last week with limited Internet, so I didn't see your note. Now, I see Ashley's been sworn in and you're more comfortable. Good!
Just in case I didn't make it clear before, Navy Leadership has many of the same functions as Management in a business. The managers at a store, for example, all have requirements they have to meet, whether it's supplies, production, shipping or something else. The Navy's a lot like that, with each division having its requirements. Just like being a good employee has its rewards at the store, so also does the Navy value its Sailors who contribute to the mission. PROMOTION$!
The way you describe Ashley, she has what it takes to be a success -- in or out of the Navy. Best of luck to her -- and her Mom!
John
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