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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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Graduation Info
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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 Allison on November 5, 2018 at 12:26pm: Yeah, as long as he’s in uniform and back by 10 (always be early in case there is a line to sign in). Usually immediate family can sign out sailors, but some ships can be really really strict, so brace for the possibility of having 2 other sailors with you as well. He won’t have time to apply by the first weekend after PIR, but special liberty is an option as well. Sailors can submit chits for things like having overnight liberty during phase 1, having a family member that’s not immediate like a grandparent sign them out, etc.. They’re approved on a case-by-case basis, and having a good standing in school and good military bearing goes a long way in getting approved.

Comment by Bandmom on November 5, 2018 at 12:25pm: Smoothsailing, you should be able to as long as he fills out a chit. He will need at least one buddy sailor coming along.

Comment by Smoothsailing on November 5, 2018 at 10:40am: Thanks ladies. If I am reading correctly I can take alex off base to Gurnee the weekend after PIR if he is not working.

Comment by Smoothsailing on November 5, 2018 at 10:38am: Actually I was thinking about the weekends before thanksgiving!! We live near enough that I’d like to take alex to Gurnee Mall the weekend after PIR if we don’t get there.

Comment by Bandmom on November 5, 2018 at 9:58am: Smoothsailing, I have not seen a list of rules for phase 1, I can only tell you what my sailors rules where. He had to wear his uniform. He had to be with another sailor. He had to fill out a chit so that he could come with us. Different "ships" had different distances they could travel. I know that you are thinking about Thanksgiving. I do not think that they can stay over night. They will have a curfew. Your sailor will get filled in when he gets to his new ship.

Comment by Allison on November 5, 2018 at 9:57am: https://m.facebook.com/notes/training-support-center-tsc-great-lake...

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Comment by Smoothsailing on November 5, 2018 at 9:20am: where are the rules/ restrictions for sailors in phase 1 ? thanks

Comment by Smoothsailing on October 31, 2018 at 8:37pm: ok gonna add that to the list of possibilities.

Comment by ellen0502 on October 31, 2018 at 7:50pm: I think that Comcast has a "plan" for those on base. My son picked up Comcast when his roommate moved on, he did not have a penalty when he left.