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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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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

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Comment by Bandmom on June 29, 2017 at 4:34pm: You can drive your sailor back onto the base as long as your sailor is in the car, everyone in the car has to have their drivers license, (i.d.) and you have your registration and proof of insurance (they didn't always ask for the proof of insurance). You can not drive onto the base if your sailor is not in the car. Also you must "sign him out" at his ship before you can take them.

Comment by Bandmom on June 29, 2017 at 4:30pm: ncdeb, we attended PIR for our sailor on June 2nd. After much thought we decided to attend Sarge's Meet and Greet. It was a lot of fun, and I met many of the moms on this site. We put our Navy for moms name underneath our real name, so that we recognized each other. If you go make sure that you stay to the end. He has a lot of info about PIR. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Waukegan. They had a free shuttle to PIR and back, and it is located nice and close to the base, also the Meet and Greet. Hope this helps.

Comment by Indiboxer on June 29, 2017 at 4:29pm: Try to go to Sarge's Meet and Greet. He has a lot of information. Plus you will get a chance to meet other families in your daughter's division. It has been almost 2 years since my son's PIR and I still remember the helpful information from Sarge. The food was good and it was fun too.

Comment by Anti M on June 29, 2017 at 4:12pm: I hear really good things about the meet n greet. I vote yes!

Comment by ncdeb on June 29, 2017 at 2:26pm: Wow thanks so much Allison, Pooter527 and Anit M! I just had it in my mind she would be staying with us at the hotel. She's not worried so not sure why I am, lol. I just like to know what to expect. Would you guys recommend going to Sarge's meet and greet the day before?

Comment by Anti M on June 29, 2017 at 10:35am: Also, parking in Chicago is expensive, and can be difficult.

Comment by Anti M on June 29, 2017 at 10:35am: You are all correct, no overnight liberty. Have them back early, it takes time to walk back to the barracks. The good news is they get released fairly early in the morning on Saturday and Sunday.

The check in varies, so hopefully it will be a couple hours instead of five! They have to check in, stow their gear, and attend a briefing on base and liberty rules.

Comment by Pooter527 on June 29, 2017 at 9:55am: My son's training is also on base. She will have liberty the day of graduation, once she moves into her new barracks. Apparently that can take up to 5 hrs. Hopefully it won't. Then she is allowed off base but has to be back by curfew. Same for sat. and Sunday. That's what I told.

Comment by Allison on June 29, 2017 at 9:54am: I guess I can't say recruit. She'll be a sailor at this point :D

Comment by Allison on June 29, 2017 at 9:53am: ncdeb unfortunately, after PIR, all recruits have to be back by 9pm all weekend if I remember correctly, so she will not be able to stay the night. However, there's actually a lot of fun stuff to do close by and good places to eat even though it doesn't look like it, so you'll be able to maximize your time together. If you do want to go into Chicago, I recommend paying the extra for a cab or parking if you'll have a car because the train ride can take an hour and half, whereas if you travel during the right times, the drive to and from Chicago can be as short as half an hour.