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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:
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
Comment Wall
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Comment by Allison on November 16, 2017 at 12:13pm
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Congrats to your sailor Bamdmom! He's one step closer to the fleet!
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Comment by Bandmom on November 16, 2017 at 11:37am
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Hello Everyone, My Sailor passed his ( as he called them) Do or Die tests. He was very relieved. Should be done with A School February 5. He is feeling more confident every day. Thanks for all the prayers and good wishes.
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Comment by Anti M on November 16, 2017 at 8:54am
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I love Target, but we just don't need much stuff anymore. Best place to get clearance Christmas lights, especially the solar or battery ones we use when camping in the desert. Shopko is much closer to our home, and has the work pants my husband likes, so we end up there more often. I do shop Target online for sheets, they are the only ones who had the super deep fitted pocket ones for our oversized sheets. And they have the best selection of hot water kettles.
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Lol I just love target. Even before I worked there, it was one of my go to spots for home decor, more grocery variety, gifts, all that. They just always have really good deals going on somewhere in the store. That's pretty much why I work here, I get the extra discount and I get to see everything going on sale, clearance, or new items before they hit the floor haha.
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Comment by Ima on November 15, 2017 at 5:42pm
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Thanks Allison!!!
I will head to Target after work today...they should pay you extra, you are do great a great job promoting them!!!
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Comment by Butterball on November 15, 2017 at 2:30pm
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I can't wait to shop for Fake Thanksgiving after work today. Thank you again for the great and yes fun idea Allison.
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Oh, I work at target if you didn't know from earlier in the thread, so yeah, you can definitely pick it up at target.
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Oh my gosh, about the egg nog thing! As I was stocking shelves today, I noticed we carry an assortment of holiday limited edition ghiradelli chocolate, and one of them is egg nog! I thought this might be a fun little substitute.
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Butterball, you're welcome, isn't that fun? I saw it on a blog, and I thought it was so creative and a good way to send a piece of thanksgiving to our sailors. I hope mine makes it to my husband in time and that he actually gets it…mail has been a little iffy over there for them I guess…and I can't track it once it leaves the US until it reaches the FPO. Fingers crossed it makes it or some postal workers are going to be very unhappy with me when the food starts to turn lol.
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Comment by Phoenixmom on November 15, 2017 at 10:32am
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Good Morning Ladies, Happy Wednesday! these weeks sure are going by fast, it's already Thanksgiving next week. For some reason this year has flown by really quick.
Allison thanks for the great info.
Have a great day!
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