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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!

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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

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:

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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Away at Great Lakes (Away in a Manger)

Away at Great Lakes

With their shaven heads.

The Seamen Recruits 

sleep on hard metal beds.

The moms here at home

All day we do pray,

Our Seaman Recruits

Will call home today.

The mailman is coming,

He brought one! Hurray!

The Seaman Recruit 

Just made someone's day!

The letter is read

Without a dry eye.

The tension has lifted,

With a very big sigh.

The letter brings comfort

And wipes fears away,

This won't be forever,

I count down the days

Until graduation

(We bought our airfare)

We asked for vacation,

So we will be there!

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This is great... Made me smile..

It's been awhile, but here is a Gilligan's Island version….

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a PIR trip

That started from anytown,  for a Great Lakes trip,  for a Great Lakes trip.

Our SR is now a Sailor man,

Our family excited and proud

Many travelers left that day to join the PIR crowd

 

The weather wasn't looking great,

The temps were below zero.

If not for the layers of thermal wear,

Body parts would be lost.  Body parts would be lost.

 

Our Sailors are behind the gates

of the Great Lakes Naval Base

With RDCs,

and POs too,

the new SRs

and the old,

The chatty ones,

and some on hold for different things

Here at the RTC.

 

Leave early to get to the RCT

There might be a long long line.

You may want to bring a seat cushion,

You'll be waiting for some time.

 

The doors will open and there they come,

Dressed in their very best!

The ceremony is impressive, of this I do not jest!

 

The flags, The Band, The singers too,

Not a dry eye you will see.

Just wait for the rush of Sailors as they call out Liberty, Now they're on Liberty

New loved ones will join us here each week,

Lets give them all a smile.

As the veteran N-4 moms do say, It is well worth the while!

 

 

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