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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
Comment Wall
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Comment by StarChild (Ship9 Div007) on November 20, 2010 at 7:12pm
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Congrats to all the divisions on competing in Captain's Cup. My son's div came in 2nd.
I went to the forum tab above and typed in Captain's Cup- Anyone know the details. Then I clicked on "All I know is that is a competition between Divisions and an honor for the Division…" Saw a couple of pictures.
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LindaB/Sandy-my son said that he is going anyway. My sons are very close and he does not want to disappoint his little brother. Pray things work out for him when he returns.
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Comment by Anchor Mom5 on November 20, 2010 at 12:52pm
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Comment by Pat L. in IL on November 12, 2010 at 3:23pm HEY MOMS!! Want to help feed Thanksgiving dinner to 200 recruits from Great Lakes?? Villa Park VFW is hosting recruits. Just show up after 8AM and help feed, talk, share your cell phone so that they can call home. Sounds like a really fun time!! Villa Park VFW, 39 E. St. Charles Rd, Villa Park, IL 60181 . I just moved the info over here for you!
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The adopt a sailor program sends sailors to a families house of other sailors who are deployed.
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There is a VFW hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for Sailors up my GL! If you join the group for Illinois N4M, someone has put up info. My sailor is in the adopt a sailor program, maybe your sailor could ask about that program.
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Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2010 at 12:47pm
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Proud Navy Mom, his chances of leave for Thanksgiving are slim, especially if he wants to take the holiday stand down leave. This isn't "free" time off like liberty, going home over Thanksgiving would burn his earned leave days. He can ask, but I'd think no. A 13 hour drive is well beyond liberty limits. He may even have duty and the students who are already there have already put in their leave requests.
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Comment by RyanO-SailorMom on November 20, 2010 at 12:13pm
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Does anyone know what local options there are for Thanksgiving sailors on hold for A school in Great Lakes that can't come home? Any families in the area hosting Sailors at their home for dinner, etc.?
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Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on November 20, 2010 at 12:19am
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StarChild, that is so sad. I can relate to what your son is going through with his boss. I used to have a boss like that. Always changing his mind. Lets pray that he changes his mind back.
IF it were me, I would have told my boss that I had already bought the tickets and have to go. Nothing on earth would have kept me from Brenden's PIR.
Can't stand bosses like that. So inconsiderate.
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Comment by LindaB(Ant'sMom)10/15 on November 19, 2010 at 11:15pm
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StarChild, that is so awful! But at least you will be there and that is so important to your recruit. Who knows? Maybe his supervisor will change his mind? I'll pray that his supervisor changes his mind. HANG IN THERE!
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I am a little bummed out. My oldest son's supervisor told him yesterday that he could not take the time off to go to the PIR . This is after telling him two weeks ago that he could. We started out with four people and now it is just me:(
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