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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:
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
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What happens after ASchool?
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BECC Info?
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Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on December 16, 2010 at 12:01pm
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Good Morning Ladies. I just want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Enjoy your time with your sailors.
Aliott, see you again after the Holidays unless I have something earth shattering to report. :)
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Comment by Aliott1200 (Ship 10, Div 256) on December 16, 2010 at 10:23am
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I am sure this website will be really quiet for a couple weeks. So I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish my new family (Navy 4 Moms) a very Happy Holiday season! Enjoy your short time with your Sailors and I will see you all again after the holidays.
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Comment by navy25 on December 16, 2010 at 10:17am
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I also made a foto book of my sons PIR and our days with him at Great Lakes in the website Snapfish in Nov. they had a deal that you bought one book and got 2 free.It was such a great idea I love my book and Im giving one to my son for Christmas and the other to his Grandmother who was with us at PIR. How can I see the book I tried going in the link but how can I view at the BLURB site I would love to see it and I wonder how can I show the one I made.
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Hi Everyone 27 hours and 30 minutes to Go and I get to HUG my son YIPPIE..I also wish for all our Sailors to have a Safe Trip Home fo the Holidays and for Great Sunny Weather at Great Lakes so Our Sailors can depart and the same for their Destinations Good Weather.We Moms we know we Miss them but Im sure our Sailors Miss Home as Well and I wish everyone a Wonderful Chrsitmas and to those who will be apart for the Holidays from their Sailors EXTRA HUGS to All and Good Wishes and if anyone needs a Shoulder to Vent just send me a message many of you helped me through Thanksgiving and my sons Bday which was around Thanksg. by just sending a quick message and a Hello and words of encouragement and my buddy Linda from Wisconsin even send my son a card.Thank you to all Our Navy Moms Have a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year
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Comment by lj1422 (Josh's mom) on December 15, 2010 at 11:22pm
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I have not posted in a while but have been reading posts almost daily and had to say...The poem is great and so true...I laugh when my Sailor calls it Great Mistakes because I think like Angie said..he has turned into such a great Sailor how can it be a mistake...
The book is wonderful such great pictures...great job Mom!!!
My son is from Florida and he is having a really hard time with the freezing weather, he thought 50 was cold before he left for GL.
I also will not be sleeping tomorrow night in anticipation of the homecoming, my sons cousins and Aunt and sister, me and Dad and several of his friends are meeting him at the airport and then coming home to celebrate.
Navy Hugs to you all and all your Sailors...
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Comment by lori on December 15, 2010 at 8:07pm
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Dawn- I did the same as Lynne! That poem was just the BEST and had to be shared! Gave you credit of course! Thanks so much for putting a smile on my face tonight.
If tonight is like last night I'm not getting much sleep... counting HOURS now!
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Comment by chandlersmom on December 15, 2010 at 5:46pm
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Friday in chicago its going to be sunny and high of 22. Wow hopefully all will be ok with flights.
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Comment by AndreaS61 on December 15, 2010 at 5:43pm
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Luv - What an amazing book. A true work of art.
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Amen to that Dawn
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Luv, what an absolute work of art. Great work. Too bad my son refuses to take any pictures and the few we have came out terrible. I guess there are no photgraphers in our family. Such incredible pictures. Thanks so much for sharing your book.
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