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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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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:

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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Navy Speak

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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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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 Alison❤️⚓️ on June 27, 2018 at 5:10pm: Your welcome all the best to her. Praying she starts quickly.

Comment by TxMom on June 27, 2018 at 5:09pm: Thanks Alison, that's good to know my daughter will be in OS A school so I hoping she get's to start school quickly but it is good to know they keep them busy. She could always use cleaning skills which I'm sure she is learning at BC as well but was never that good at it at home:)

Comment by Alison❤️⚓️ on June 27, 2018 at 5:04pm: Hi TxMom they do a lot of cleaning stand watch and few other things my son had pir 4/20 & just started ASchool 6/11 for QM..

Comment by TxMom on June 27, 2018 at 5:01pm: What do they do when they are waiting for A school to start? Do they give them jobs to do?

Comment by Wiffer peanut on June 25, 2018 at 3:15pm: Thank you all!

Comment by Anti M on June 25, 2018 at 12:17pm: A school is very frustrating for everyone with all the hurry up and wait and lack of information. I hope all goes smoothly!

Comment by Alison❤️⚓️ on June 25, 2018 at 10:03am: Hi I hope your son starts soon all the best to him!!

Comment by Anti M on June 25, 2018 at 9:32am: Wiffer, while we know the length of each section of his training, that still would not give a graduation date, as we cannot know the length of the holds before and between each section. Instruction length is a bare minimum. Only your sailor can tell you when he will be done, and even then, he might not know immediately.
According to the Navy career card, here is the program:
EPACT 25 days
BECC Advanced 18 days
DC Strand 15 days

Again, there may be hold times between each section. You cannot know if that adds on two or three weeks, or more, or less.

Comment by Wiffer peanut on June 24, 2018 at 10:50pm: Just to clarify, my child in Damage Control program. The first program is coming to an end. The programs were supposed to last 30 days for basic engineering and damage control for 15 days. Sailor started June 5.

Comment by Alison❤️⚓️ on June 24, 2018 at 9:34pm: Hi All, Wiffer peanut my son graduated from BC 4/20/18 and he did not start ASchool until 6/11/18 his class just started for quarter master he also was in holds.. ͏y͏o͏u just don’t know I believe my son said he would at this sheet to see his name on it & that meant he was starting class that Monday.. it was frustrating in the beginning but my son kept busy .. Now he is study very hard.. & his graduation will be 8/2/18..All the best to your son .