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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
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- 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 Anne on July 24, 2015 at 8:22am
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Anti M, This is Anne. Is there anyway you can pm me? My son made a comment to me on our way back and I don't know if I should say anything.
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Comment by Anti M on July 24, 2015 at 8:04am
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No, although it might look like it. There is a food allowance which goes into their pay, then is deducted back out. In some cases, they keep the BAS and the chow hall charges a fee per meal based off the allowance. This is for accounting purposes, so the Navy can keep track of how much it costs to feed everyone. If a sailor is married and lives off base, they receive BAS, which is the same food allowance.
If they choose to eat anywhere but the galley/chow hall, then yes, they do pay for that.
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Comment by Chris on July 23, 2015 at 11:51pm
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Do the recruits have to pay for there meals during A-School
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Comment by Oleander on July 23, 2015 at 2:34pm
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Hi Anne. My daughter is DC also - just finished and is leaving GL today to come home.
Be sure to join the DC group. See you over there!
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Anne, the shorter schools phase up much faster. He may have had special permission to go see his grandfather and not be back for curfews.
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Hi there. I'm a new navy mom also. Just worked up the courage to figure out my smart phone with my son's help. My son's PIR was 19June2015, started A school for DC at Great Lakes. He's also from Wisconsin. He was able to come home this past weekend. He's phase 1 and only had 4 days till phase 2, had no duty scheduled also. He came home to spend time with his step-grandfather who is terminal with pancreatic cancer. Just wanted to share that and was able to take civilian clothes back also.
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Yes, he'd have it off.
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Comment by Bronco14 on July 23, 2015 at 12:17pm
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Friday evening yep as in he can leave base after secured? I will definitely post what happens here :)
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Friday evening ... yep.
I haven't heard of a phase one overnight being approved yet, but hey, he can try. If it works, post it here! This is the only way to learn stuff about the individual school commands.
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Alright thank you! I mean worst case, he needs to round up two buddies to sign him out (and hang out with us all day?) he read his liberty paper yesterday and it said that during phase one, he can't leave base monday-thursday. Maybe we are reading them wrong. But we assumed that meant he could leave base Friday after he is secured. If not, I can get on base and figure we can hang out on base- not a huge deal there. So did I understand you correctly when you say he cannot request overnight chit during phase 1?
Anti M, thank you for your help!!
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