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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 Abby on February 27, 2014 at 10:14pm: If your husband is going for FC or ET, they will move you since their school is long enough.

http://www.fcnavygreatlakes.com

There's the link for base housing.

Comment by a.foertsch on February 27, 2014 at 8:14pm: Okey thanks. Now my husband will be in a school and I have been told that the navy may not move me because it's not a duty station. If they don't move me and I move myself will I still have the option of base housing? Is there somewhere I can look at the base housing in that area?

Comment by Abby on February 27, 2014 at 8:06pm: We checked out The Preserve apartments before I moved up here and they're pretty nice. It's about a 20-25 minute drive to base so we ultimately went with base housing.

Comment by a.foertsch on February 27, 2014 at 5:33pm: Hello Everyone! So my husband is graduating in of march. Will be attending A-school in Great Lakes for either ET or FC and I am assuming he will be there close to year if not more then a year. I want to move up there beginning of may. I have called a few places in the area about prices and availability. The ones I have liked the most that are in our price range are.

The Preserve at Osprey Lake & Fox Crest apartments

If anyone has information or advice on these places or any other places you suggest for me. Please let me know. Thanks!

Comment by Anti M on February 26, 2014 at 3:59pm: I was on hold for ET A school 30 years ago. It is part of the pipeline.

Those 700 do not all stay at Great Lakes. We have A schools in VA, FL, TX, CA, MS, and elsewhere, while some just go to the fleet. ATT and BECC are for multiple ratings, so they may have to wait for the classes ahead or of them to graduate before they can start that part, then they wait for A school some more while the ones behind them graduate The stand down certainly created a delay, there were two weeks this month which had no PIR. If something happens to an instructor or one of the school buildings (blown furnace, pipes etc) there's a delay. The weather certainly has closed the schools a few times lately.

There may be gaps because some of the SRs didn't make it through boot camp, or have issues with medical or their security clearances.

There's a thousand reasons. Yep, hurry up and wait.

Comment by mom2mjnc on February 26, 2014 at 3:45pm: My sailor graduated BC at the end of NOVEMBER! He STILL has not classed up! He's been freezing his butt off in GL and volunteering at the USO for over 3 months. He did hear that "maybe" another week or so... We'll see.

Hurry up and wait! :-)

Eileen

Comment by Anti M on February 25, 2014 at 3:22pm: No, they can still work on their liberty phases.

Comment by a.foertsch on February 25, 2014 at 3:11pm: Does being on hol effect them from phaseing up or living ashore?

Comment by MomOf4 on February 25, 2014 at 2:22pm: My sailor has been on hold for a month and has been told it could be as long as three months before she can class up to start BECC. It is very frustrating for all of us!