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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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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 sethmom on May 5, 2017 at 4:09pm: My son got his orders yesterday. They are sending him to Yakuska Japan. What in the world? Can anyone help me find out more about this?

Comment by Allison on May 4, 2017 at 9:39am: CrissySue I just want to congratulate your sailor on graduating after RCU, it is actually a great achievement to become injured in bootcamp, recover, and graduate! It takes a lot of strength and motivation to make it through RCU and back to training, not everyone even gets that opportunity. I met tons of people in separations that came from RCU either because they could not recover to Navy standards or they didn't want to go back to training after because it is hard on their mental state, so again, congrats! Welcome to the Navy Family! He will probably be in THU for awhile, but he will be able to have some liberty and his phone. Remind him to always be nice to SEPS kids, as he will probably escort them around base and stuff. I have actually seems someone get in A LOT of trouble for being rude to a group of us. If he goes to the library on his ship, they will have instruction manuals for almost every rate, so if he wants to start studying for school and get ahead of the game, he should dig around for the FC manual, but be warned the library is SO disorganized lol. If he's down at all while in THU, he can connect with a chaplain. They are not always told this, but chaplains are not mandatory reporters to the command, so there's total confidentiality. It's a very important resource to know about.

Comment by Anti M on May 3, 2017 at 6:53pm: I'm chuckling, I went through ET A school decades ago, and I spent my time on hold too. It takes time to get them all through the pipeline. It is factored in.

The Navy has a lot of hurry up and wait. Constantly, and yes, in the fleet too. Anyone who can't handle that will have a bad time for their entire enlistment. There is much which is not glamorous, and pushing a mop or doing boring preventive maintenance checks is going to be the largest part of the job. Sorry to disillusion anyone, but day to day, the Navy is freaking dull and boring, and involves a ton of janitorial work, or once you advance, paperwork. My last year in the Navy, I rarely touched electronics of any type, I oversaw the maintenance records for the command. Snooze.

Comment by CrissySue on May 3, 2017 at 6:52pm: Sethmom - my DH might have thought that while stuck in RCU, but hes happy right now waiting for his brace and then ready for A school. Hes been in "hurry up and wait" since march 20th. Hes getting used to it, and from what I hear, it doesnt get much better. im sure he will get antsy, but its a process.

Thank you LisaZski... I'm sure thats what my husband is doing too... cleaning lol funny because he was a head night custodian before joining up and he was HEAD po in boot camp so... he just cant get away from cleaning lol

Anyways, Im hoping to hear more from him tonight. Maybe he's figured out his new "job" while on hold in THU and will get a watch schedule soon so I can plan a visit.

Comment by LisaZski on May 3, 2017 at 6:44pm: Welcome to the Navy! My son just graduated BECC & now sits cleaning until Monday when he strays next school.

Comment by sethmom on May 3, 2017 at 3:09pm: Does anyone else's son think they have made a mistake? Why is there so much sitting around time? My son is taking the engineering classes right now and says he is stuck behind a computer. He is ready to start learning the skills for his job.

Comment by Bandmom on May 3, 2017 at 1:16pm: My son will be going to FC A School, but he isn't done with basic yet.

Comment by CrissySue on May 2, 2017 at 8:46pm: That would be awesome, but I doubt they will start him that quick... maybe though -

Comment by Aidersmom on May 2, 2017 at 8:35pm: My son will be starting FC A school on Friday or Monday.

Comment by CrissySue on May 2, 2017 at 7:18pm: Hubby just completed BST this morning after being in RCU for 5 weeks. Hes now in THU awaiting the start of FC A school in GL. Anyone here also waiting for FC A School to start?