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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
- 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 jessisawesome87 on January 16, 2015 at 5:32pm
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Ericuts- He did IFF C school in Virginia for 3 months, and Maryland for 6 weeks, then he did 2 weeks in San Diego (where he's stationed) for a different NEC.
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Comment by adpsmom on January 16, 2015 at 4:54pm
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@ Ericuts - Thanks for the info!
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Comment by Ericuts on January 16, 2015 at 12:21pm
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Adpsmom my daughter brought a red and grey back pack and told us it either needed to be black or Navy camo print. She got a suitcase at the NEX to put her food and snacks in
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jessicaawesome87, where were your husbands C schools located?
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I went to my husband's ET A school graduation. It was relatively short. A speech by a higher up, followed by questions from the sailors to whoever is performing the graduation, then they call them up to get their certificate. My husband was also an honor grad, and I don't remember their being any special graduation. C school was a different story. My husband has had 3 different C schools, and none of them have had any sort of ceremony. Just a "hey! You passed! Here's your certificate" sort of thing.
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Comment by Christine Proud Son of ET on January 16, 2015 at 11:34am
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Is there a graduation ceremony from A or C school that parents can attend? My son will be finishing up A school and said he thinks there is an honor graduation for those at the top of the class...is this true and can family attend?
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Comment by Anti M on January 12, 2015 at 8:01pm
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Usually from a local provider (like comcast). Not unusual to split it with roommates.
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Comment by Julie-Jake on January 12, 2015 at 7:59pm
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My son wants to know how do they purchase wifi for their barracks in A school?
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Usually black, or he can bring his own bag.
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My son is at BC right now and will stay in the GL for A school. I was just wondering if the items that I bring to him at PIR need to be in a certain color duffle or luggage: or will he bring his own duffle to the hotel to put his things in?
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