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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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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 Darlene on June 17, 2014 at 8:37pm: Will they tell him about requesting a sponsor before he leaves?I will tell him about that, thank you very much.

Comment by Anti M on June 16, 2014 at 9:16pm: Okay, it sounded like he had, I'm sorry.

They will arrange his flights, and he only pays for the part going home. Has he requested a sponsor from his ship yet? He should, they can be very helpful when he gets to California. They may be able to help him get transportation, possibly even have the duty driver come get him.

Here is some helpful information:

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/navybasesunits/ss/SanDiego_2.htm

Comment by Darlene on June 16, 2014 at 8:45pm: He said they are making their arrangements on Thursday,They are helping him..he hasn't done anything yet.

Comment by Anti M on June 16, 2014 at 8:03pm: The Navy arranges his flights ... what he was supposed to have done is let them arrange his travel home "en route", then charge him for that leg. Never jump the gun on purchasing plane tickets. He needs to go talk to the travel office (SATO) as soon as he can, because paying for a trip home before arranging the official travel is not the way it works. Always wait for the orders to come in and go to the official travel office. Buying his own tickets may end up costing more if he has to fly back to Great Lakes.

There are shuttles from the airport to the base, or taxis. He will be reimbursed.

Comment by Darlene on June 16, 2014 at 6:55pm: I have a question, my son received his orders;San Diego,Calif on USS William Lawrence July 11,does navy set up flight and pickup from air port for that? he will come home next week for 2 weeks on his dime,but not sure about his return to Calif?

Comment by Anti M on June 16, 2014 at 2:55pm: Sorry, zip code!

Comment by Anti M on June 16, 2014 at 2:55pm: During school only. Different schools have different policies, most only allow the student sailors to live off base or in base housing if the school is over 20 weeks. After that, when he receives orders to the fleet, you two can certainly live together. When he is in the fleet, your BAH will be for the sip code of his new duty station.

Remember, A school is quite different than the fleet.

Comment by AwaitingMySailor(Ship13Div.174) on June 16, 2014 at 1:51pm: So we will never be able to live together im confused?

Comment by Anti M on June 16, 2014 at 11:54am: EM school is in several parts, but altogether the schooling itself is 18 weeks. There may be holds between the sections, so do expect a longer stay at Great Lakes than that. It can easily run six months or more.

https://www.cool.navy.mil/enlisted/rating_info_cards/em.pdf

Because his school is not more than 20 weeks, the Navy will not pay to move you up to Great Lakes, nor can he get permission to live off base during that time. The hold times do not count toward Live Ashore eligibility.

You will receive BAH, the housing allowance, based on where you live. That takes about four to eight weeks to show up in his check. Once he gets the initial amount, it will show up half in each paycheck each month.

Comment by AwaitingMySailor(Ship13Div.174) on June 16, 2014 at 4:28am: I feel so lostmy husband is an electrician mate non nuke. What happens after a school for us ?