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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
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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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Arrived at bc on June 13-CSS
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My Bird can Cook
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Comment by OMG hes a Sailor (div180) on July 15, 2010 at 10:15pm
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Thanks..but we have not gotten the final answer yet. They say they are working on it. What ever that means. He was under the impression that he was going to take the place of someone that got hurt that was supposed to leave Sunday. Now he is being told they are trying to get it processed or approved?? IDK
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Comment by Bananamom on July 15, 2010 at 9:28pm
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Oy. Sunday. Really? That's quite a shock. It will be OK. You'll feel totally lost at first, getting the "oh, my God they've vaporized him!" box with all his stuff will be hard but you'll make it through. My son went through BC during the holidays last December and it was really hard on all of us, but looking back, it created some memories as well. I agree with others that you should join a BC group with as they will have lots of information about PIR (Pass in Review -- graduation) and then you can get to meet other moms during the ceremony at Great Lakes. My son told me that the letters he received (and we wrote him almost every day) were what kept him going. I used to send Facebook updates to family and friends and had them send him letters as well. These letters don't have to be anything fancy -- just what's going on the the world (sports scores, current events, funny stories). My son said his favorite letter had my description some bickering I had with his dad over the fragrance of Bounce -- he said it sounded just like us. You'll be surprised how fast it goes. It seems like forever then the next thing you're hopping a plane to Illinois. Anyway, we're all here for you.
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still waiting on the final call about sunday! It has to be approved by someone higher up, I guess.
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Oh my GOSH Brandon just called me the recruter just called him and said he could leave for BC on Sunday if he was ready!!!!! WHAT???? OK I said I was ready but now I am FREAKING OUT!!!
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Thanks he is talking about wanting to stay in untill retirement 20years.
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He did not decide to even go see the recruitor untill about 3weeks before he graduated from HS. He went to MEPS the week before graduation. I did not think he would pick CS. He did take foods 1 and 2 in HS but he had told me did not think he would take the CS....but he did. The night after his phsy. they had Avation Availible but the recruitor told him to think about it and he could decide in the morning, but in the morning it was not availible anymore. So he signed for the CS. I hope he likes it and is happy...I think he is haveing second thoughts.
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Brandonsmom: My son was a DEPR for his last year of high school and then went to bootcamp last December at age 18. It was tough over the holidays for all of us. BC is particularly rough on the moms but you'll live through it and it's really important that you write him as your letters (everyone's letters) are gold when there is a total communications blackout. My son is now on the USS Reagan. Being a CS is a tough job -- I think a lot more work than he expected. Long hours. But he's a great kid and a hard worker. You'll be amazed at your son's transformation.
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My son does not go to boot camp untill March 2011 !! Does anyone else have to wait that long?? He has gotten a full time job so that may help the time go faster. I am so ready for him to get his Navy career started. I love him and am so proud that he made this decision. He is ready to go and I am ready for him to go...in a good way. Ya know what I mean. He really needs this! He is 18 and has the "I am an adult and I should be able to do what I want when I want" attitude. I know this will change when he gets to Boot Camp.....
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@ Margaret. My son is in Hawaii for RIMPAC too! My husband and I took our vacation in Hawaii this year and were able to see him for a couple of days.Got to tour the ship which was really cool. We got to see the the galley where he works long hours and got to go up on the flight deck. Double cool.
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Comment by Margaret_ProudTexasMomof2Sailors on June 28, 2010 at 10:50am
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I'm still learning about RIMPAC. From what I can read, it is an international sea competition and maneuvers. Richard was telling me about how his ship hosted dinner for the Chilean Navy.
As for the rolls, yes, I want him to show me how it is done. SECRETS, I want all their secrets! I might just learn how to cook!
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