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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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Group for those who have loved ones in the engineering field. DC, EM, EN, EOD, GSE/GSM, HT, IC, MM, MR

Members: 222
Latest Activity: Feb 15, 2020

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Comment by MNnavymom on January 20, 2013 at 3:29pm: @Kellismom, thank you and best of luck to you and your daughter! I was thinking back to my son's PIR and I am so excited for you to finally see and hug your daughter! It really was a grand moment for us. Are you able to go out to see the PIR? Being Marines, you know what its all about. I am still learning all of the time. You will have to let us know where she gets stationed.

Comment by kellismom on January 20, 2013 at 12:03am: TSC...Training Support Center...duhhh. Got it. : )

Comment by kellismom on January 19, 2013 at 11:56pm: Thank you MNnavymom and Happy 2 yrs to your son!

Comment by kellismom on January 19, 2013 at 11:50pm: sailorv'swife,

I believe that's correct, I'm new to the Navy ranks/ratings. (actually, her dad and I were in the Marines, so we learned it at one point but that was a long time ago). Your husband graduated last week, so do they go to ship 5 until school starts? Is he also a FA ? From what I've read in job descriptions the FA is the 3 week basic school prior to the GSE school. BTW where is TSC?

Comment by 2sonmom on January 19, 2013 at 6:25pm: Steve'sMom, which aircraft carrier is your son's destroyer attached to?

Comment by Steve'sMom USS Cole on January 19, 2013 at 5:34pm: My son is a GSM, stationed in Virginia. He is in the middle east aboard a destroyer.

Comment by MNnavymom on January 19, 2013 at 4:46pm: @Kellismom my son is a GSE FN. Just had his 2 yr. ann yesterday! He is stationed in Virginia aboard a destroyer. Best of luck with everything! Hang in there, things do get better!

Comment by SailorV'sWife on January 19, 2013 at 3:26pm: lauren68 - how's your sons's A-school going? My husband said his a-school is 20weeks, and then only some GSE's are chosen to go onto C-school. Has your son mentioned this at all?

Comment by SailorV'sWife on January 19, 2013 at 3:24pm: My husband just graduated last week and is a GSE. He starts classes the 5th at TSC. Correct me if I'm wrong kellismom, but GSE's (engineers) are considered "fireman" so there rate is FR (fireman recruit - E1), FA (fireman apprentice - E2), etc..

Comment by 2sonmom on January 19, 2013 at 2:54pm: Hi kellismom! My son is a GSE3. He's on a ship in the middle east presently. GL is where he went to A school. What does the FA stand for?