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 sethmom on May 18, 2017 at 9:25am
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If you are staying at the Navy lodge cynthia5124 they have movies to borrow at no charge. When my son graduated we spent a whole day watching movies and eating popcorn.
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If your son is at Great lakes for A school it is.
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Hello,
My son graduated boot camp last Friday and is now at A School. Is this the correct group for me?
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Any suggestions "what to do in Great Lakes" during a rainy weekend?
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Comment by Anti M on May 17, 2017 at 3:10pm
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Even in the fleet, there can be long delays for one thing or another. For the most part, the Navy is not fast paced and exciting. Cleaning, paperwork, maintenance, it all is needed, but is not glamorous, and can be downright dull and mundane. Your new sailors must find ways to constructively fill their liberty time, be it going to the gym or volunteering, or even games and reading. There is a reason the work days at sea are 12+ hours long, and there aren't really any weekends. Staying busy is the key to staying sane, and out of trouble.
And yes, the amount of rumor and misinformation is astonishing. The subject matter may change, but never the chatter or the eternal sea lawyers who have been in the Navy for a minute, yet know it all. I am actually glad I didn't have the internet back when I was in!
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Hi Bandmom,
Tell your SR to prepare for a lot of hurry up and wait. My son sat around for 14 days before he started doing any classes. He got very discouraged because no one prepared him for that. There is a lot of misinformation that goes around as well. Tell your son to only listen to the commanding officers information for its validity. I have spent many late nights on the phone with my son helping him work through the discouragement hes experiencing.
My best wishes to all of you. I am going to visit my son this weekend because he is phase two now with overnight chit. So excited to see him.
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ellen0502 You are so right!! The anticipation was the same if not worse and our son was in the very last wave of new sailors to come to the gate!!!
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Comment by Bandmom on May 17, 2017 at 12:57pm
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Sethmom, I have no Idea what goes on at A School. I just know that he will be there for quite awhile, and that we are close enough, that when he gets Liberty, he may be able to come home.
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Comment by FirsttimeNavymom on May 17, 2017 at 12:56pm
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Congratulations! It's a wonderful event, emotional event and a day you'll never forget! Enjoy.
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Thank you everyone for the information. My SR's PIR is June 2. It is getting close, and I am getting excited!
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