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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
Events
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- 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: 2332
Latest Activity: Mar 12
Discussion Forum
leave after A/C school-- orders are confusing
Started by MANDY. Last reply by Anti M Aug 16, 2019. 2 Replies 0 Likes
What happens after ASchool?
Started by SailorMom18. Last reply by Phoenixmom Feb 13, 2019. 1 Reply 0 Likes
BECC Info?
Started by adubz33. Last reply by SuBHuni34 Nov 29, 2018. 9 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by barefootie on November 24, 2017 at 1:54pm
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So very happy for you all!!
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Comment by librarianmom on November 24, 2017 at 1:45pm
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
We are in Great Lakes,for the long weekend. We checked our Sailor out Wednesday and don’t need to return him until tomorrow night. He has duty Sunday. We took him to my sisters for Thanksgiving dinner...my whole family lives close enough to Great Lakes so that was nice. We have had a few outings and lots of relaxing. We get to take him all the way home in just one month!
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Comment by Ima on November 24, 2017 at 1:36pm
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Good morning ladies!!! I’m enjoying hearing about your Thanksgiving celebrations. My Sailor and a buddy got “adopted” by a married Sailor and his family. He said they had a great time. This Navy family sure is something special. I hope you all have nice weekends...My Sailor will be home in 26 days, I am sooooo excited!!! We haven’t seen him since his Feb PIR and his siblings haven’t seen him in a year!!!
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Comment by Phoenixmom on November 24, 2017 at 12:51pm
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Thank You Allison, Me and My family had a Great Thanksgiving, I usually cook for the whole family there usually is around 20 of us, But yesterday I made an announcement that next year I will be taking a break from cooking Thanksgiving and would like for someone else to take a turn and I want to be the one invited, you could here crickets that's how quite it was. I am the only one who provides and cooks the meal for everyone and I want a break, it would be nice to be invited for once. So there were a lot of pouts but we shall see.
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Comment by Allison on November 24, 2017 at 12:30pm
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Phoenixmom I hope you had a great Thanksgiving as well, I bet it was wonderful to sit and Skype with your son! I picked up an extra shift in shipping last night to make some extra cash since my husband is away and they were short staffed, but it wasn't bad, our HR department ordered a bunch of food for us to have on our breaks and some people brought in leftovers from their thanksgiving dinners. My husband's section all made different things and had a friendsgiving in the lounge of their barracks, and he called me to help with the turnovers, so I did get to talk to him for a little bit Wednesday night, which is Thursday morning for him, and it sounds like things are going to be ready to go in just a couple weeks, so I have so much to do to get ready to leave! I do have to work this evening, but fortunately, the worst of Black Friday is over I think for my store because we opened at 6pm yesterday, so all the huge lines and customers racing around the store have passed.
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Good Morning Ladies Happy Friday, Hope everyone's Thanksgiving was Great.
My Son and three other Sailors were adopted from a Family he said it was really nice and dinner was Great. Played games. Later in the evening they allowed him to use a Office and Skype with us which was really nice of them. He looks great Just cant wait to have him home for Christmas. I just wanted to pull him thru the screen and kiss and hug him. Hope all of you were able to speak or Skype with your Loved one. Well Ladies have a Great Day, I had to work today any of you working or having the day off?
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Comment by Butterball on November 22, 2017 at 4:33pm
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Thank you for all you do Phoenixmom, have a wonderful Thanksgiving as well.
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I would Like to wish each and every one of you Wonderful Ladies a Happy Thanksgiving, I know some of us will be without our Beloved Son/Daughter but they themselves will be having a Great feast of their own on base. May the calls, letters and maybe even Skype come thru tomorrow.
Jeremiah 33:11 Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’
Psalm 28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.
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What a beautiful prayer Phoenixmom 51, you are very welcome, we are all in this together, with our fears. I know the families are thankful for the prayers that we all will continue to send, for them and ourselves during this time and in future.
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Thank You Butterball for acknowledging my uneasiness with this whole thing. I myself just have my faith to rely on that My Son will also emerge from this long Journey at Sea. I am just hoping that they (The Navy) can come to some conclusion as to why these things are Happening. It is very unsettling. A prayer for those Families in Waiting.
Father, we ask You to send Your peace to those Families who are awaiting word on their Loved Ones. Continue to surround them with family, friends and loved ones who will offer words of comfort. Father, You are their stronghold. As they call on You, You have promised to answer. We believe that You will be with them during this period of uncertainty, rescue them from grief, honor them, and give them Your salvation. Amen!
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