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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 ProudGMBarb on January 21, 2011 at 1:24pm: Beth, Wow...it would be great if they could meet each other and share some meals and have time to chat. This experience has to be an emotional rollercoaster for her. Our grandson says he's fine, but then you know "guys" ...he might not want to open up completely! Anyway, he tells us that he's picking up extra jobs to make extra money to keep busy. Whatever that means...perhaps pulling duty for other sailors??? Let's talk more.

Comment by beth on January 21, 2011 at 1:03pm: Barb - My daughter is also on the Enterprise with a PIR on 1/14. She was a rock during boot camp and we had an incredible extended weekend together. Now she is experiencing extreme homesickness and sounds very lonely. I reassure her that a letdown of this type is normal. She is Navy strong and will get thru this. Anyone else have similar situations with their grads?

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on January 21, 2011 at 12:46pm: At least he will only have 2 weeks left of ATT in March.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on January 21, 2011 at 12:46pm: Dillons Mom, After all that torture they spelled his name wrong????

I am not looking forward to the 2nd week in March when my son will be back in ATT.

Comment by ProudGMBarb on January 21, 2011 at 2:56am: Pam (GM MOM)....our grandson is on USS Enterprise right now. He just moved over there after his PIR 1/14. Wish he was one of the sailors starting A school this week, but I don't think that will be happening for a while. He's still a newbie!

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on January 20, 2011 at 11:16pm: Hi Dillons Mom. My son was so happy to finish the most of ATT too. He is an FC so after (A)school he will have to finish the last 2 weeks of ATT. He is not looking forward to it.

My son has many friends who are GM's. I will ask him if he knows how long school is for them.

Comment by beth on January 20, 2011 at 7:09pm: my daughter was grad and go last week. I brought her laptop, phone, ipod etc. plus some "civvies" to wear and we rented a locker near the base at LOCK AND GO.Super nice young couple -he is an RDC. Go to their website and they will mail you a coupon for $10.00 off. Their website is: www.thelockandgo.com. As it turned out she was allowed to bring all her electronics on base with her when she reported in but I would definitely have the locker plan as a backup.Graduation was an awesome experience. The whole weekend was perfect.She was able to stay with us the whole weekend after her check .in process which took her a couple of hours. She is in temporary housing right now.

Comment by PAM (GM MOM) on January 20, 2011 at 6:28pm: Dillons mom, My son really likes the school but, at the same time he wants to get it done and move on with his career.

Comment by debbiel on January 20, 2011 at 6:20pm: gvnavydad- My son also graduated last week but did not move until yesterday. I brought his phone and laptopn with me to graduation only to bring it back home again. I am shipping everything back to him this weekend.

Comment by Debbie2 on January 20, 2011 at 5:57pm: gvnavydad ~ Your son can have those things if he is a grad-n-go....he can not take anything back with him to the boot camp side. My sons PIR was this past week and he also is staying in GL for A school. He did not move over to his school until Wednesday so I had to ship everything to him today.