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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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Great Lakes A School Q&A

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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: 2331
Latest Activity: Mar 12

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Comment by Anti M on October 5, 2017 at 10:14am: It includes the weekends. Normally, weekends and holidays are regular time off, called liberty. But if they are using their leave days, they are not supposed to combine the two. The training commands can be rather strict on this, so if they are taking leave, the weekends and the federal holidays (Christmas, New Years Day) count as leave days too. If they don't go on leave, they get the weekend/holidays off if they don't have duty, but they have to stay within the liberty limit of 300 miles.

Comment by Butterball on October 5, 2017 at 8:55am: Anti M, I may have already answered this for myself, but want to be sure. Does the stand down include weekends or just the week days? I believe it would, but just checking. Thank you in advance.

Comment by Anti M on October 4, 2017 at 6:43pm: I get them all the time too. The sites are safe, it is some other issue like site certificate. Yes, I do the same as the others, click advanced and go ahead.

Comment by barefootie on October 4, 2017 at 5:46pm: I have always gotten the same message. Just advance through

Comment by tntmomma on October 4, 2017 at 4:39pm: I get that same message. In Chrome, you can click the advanced link at the bottom of the page and select to go there anyway. I've never had a problem with a virus or anything.

Comment by Ima on October 4, 2017 at 4:25pm: Hi Anti-M, thanks again for all the info...I am wondering about the links you sent. When I click on them, I get a warning screen that pops up telling me they are not secure sites. Has anyone else had this issue???

Comment by Anti M on October 4, 2017 at 11:39am: EMs generally do not go directly to a C school.

Look at page 7 (of 115) to see the possibilities. Not many.

https://www.cool.navy.mil/usn/LaDR/em_e1_e9.pdf

Comment by Phoenixmom on October 4, 2017 at 11:21am: Ok thanks because I was looking up EM's and I didn't see anything on C school. But I'm sure things can change. Thank You Anti M and have a great day!

Comment by Anti M on October 4, 2017 at 11:19am: Just depends. Ratings such as FC or ET always have a C school. Others, not so much, or not until they've been in the fleet a while and have advanced to petty officer or up to E-5. There are many kinds of C schools.

Edit: in general, you can find what NEC can be earned by every rating by finding their "COOL card" online.