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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: 2332
Latest Activity: Mar 12

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Comment by Anti M on May 22, 2017 at 7:43pm: The link to Great Lakes liberty phases:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/training-support-center-tsc-great-la...

Comment by Anti M on May 22, 2017 at 7:42pm: You really want to set a date, don't you?

The link I gave you in the other group states 30 days in phase one. Four weeks in phase two. Those are minimums, it can take longer.

I strongly urge you to not set a date or buy plane tickets until he gets to A school, checks in, and can tell you the current policy, as it can change between now and his graduation. Plus, it will really suck if you choose a date and buy plane tickets for the family, and then HE HAS DUTY AND CAN'T LEAVE BASE. I am not trying to be mean, but realistically, the Navy sets your wedding date, not you.

I was an ET. We only had two phases of liberty then, but we had weekend duty at least once a month. You cannot know his duty section rotation until he checks into A school.

Comment by mamh1108 on May 22, 2017 at 7:02pm: Hi everyone, quick question typically how long do the phases last in A school for ET or FC?

Comment by Bandmom on May 19, 2017 at 12:23pm: Thank you Anti M and misisu, Thank you for all the information. This sounds like it is right up his alley. He loves that kind of stuff. As for spending most of his time on a ship, he told us that before we went to BC. Seems like he is right on track for what he is interested in.

Comment by Anti M on May 19, 2017 at 9:46am: I worked with RMs mostly, they're IT now. My dad was in aviation, began as an aviation metalsmith when he joined in 1941. That rating changes a lot, and he was one of the first Masterchiefs in the new rating (AM?). My maternal grandfather, who I barely knew, was a Boatswain Mate in WWI. Yes, World War One, art of the Great White Fleet. My paternal grandfather was a Marine in the trenches in France, lost a leg, moved to Hollywood to be an extra in movies.

I love our military history, which people find odd because I'm pretty much a hippie, LOL. In the 70s, when a hippie enlisted, it was in the Navy ...

ET is one of the best ratings. Except for climbing antennas, it is a safe and clean working environment. Mostly. Don't know about now, but my husband says ETs were less likely to be assigned to cranking duty when they got to the ships.

Comment by misisu on May 19, 2017 at 8:56am: Anti M what a great tradition! So many ET's in the family. I was an OS and we worked very closely with the ET's
Bandmom this is a great rating as it will serve him well while in the Navy and provide an abundance of opportunity when he decides to leave the Navy. Congrats!!

Comment by Anti M on May 18, 2017 at 2:10pm: @Bandmom, yes, that is Electronics Technician. Usually communications systems and radar, but also other specialties. I was an ET and worked primarily on secure voice communications, and encrypted information systems. My husband was also an ET who worked on similar systems, plus radar. He also fixed the soda machine son his ship, which made him a hero to the guys (not official work). My acquired kid is currently an active duty ET, and does more navigation and radar than comms, but could do any of it. ET is very versatile. Yes, it is a sea-going rating, so expect him to get a ship as a first duty station.

I probably just posted more than you needed this early. I tend to do that.

Comment by Bandmom on May 18, 2017 at 11:27am: I just got a letter yesterday from my son, saying that he has an ET Rating. Does that mean that he will be working on Electronics?