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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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
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
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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Discussion Forum
Looking for advice from DCs
Started by locogirlp. Last reply by Dee Jan 21, 2014. 4 Replies 0 Likes
A school then onto Japan for DC
Started by Adam's Mom.. Last reply by Dee Jun 27, 2013. 9 Replies 0 Likes
DC after BC
Started by NavyMom_NC-Ship 02 Div 916. Last reply by NavyMom_NC-Ship 02 Div 916 May 13, 2013. 4 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on August 31, 2010 at 11:21pm
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Katie and I keep in touch via emails and IMing when she is in port. We get a call every so often. I write her letters and send packages. Her DC division loves homemade cookies. This past summer I went on a Tiger Cruise on her ship with her youngest brother. We were on the ship 4 days and 3 nights. It was a WONDERFUL experience.
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On Navy4Moms, click on the 'Videos' tab. The in the 'search' bar type BECC and the videos will appear.
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Comment by EQ on August 31, 2010 at 11:15pm
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I am sorry to be such a pest, I just want to find out all I can, so I can be knowledgeable about what she has to go thru.
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MarianneKT--Wow!! How do you like being so far away from her??? I am going crazy now and she has only been gone since July, but she has never been away from me for even 1 day. Btw, I tried to find that BECC on youtube, and I must not of been looking in the right spot, can you help me??
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The DCs are part of the Engineering Division, thus the BECC, just the initial classes. Until they are official moved over from the BC side, they cannot have the cell phone. Katie didn't get hers until she came home at Christmas. Katie got along fine with her new roommates. They rotated in and out depending on when they started their training.
Katie graduated DC school and has been in Sasebo Japan since April '09.
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Also, she has already been told her A-School will be 10-12 weeks and will get out right before Christmas. My sailor is extremely shy and has not made any friends and was bad mouthed the whole time she was in BC. Do you know (since I am sure your sailor is out of A-school now) are the sailors there friendly??
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MarianneKT--Why are they told they cannot get a cell phone until they get to their A-School?? Her PIR is Thursday and she was going to go get a cell phone, but was told that it would be taken away for 2 weeks, WHY?????
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EQ - They can also have cell phones and a computer. Katie got a laptop over Christmas and downloaded her CDs and took DVDs with her. She got a phone, not just to call home, but to keep in touch with her friends. One of her best friends had opposite class times and such.
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After BC graduation (PIR) they get transferred to Great Lakes for training school - across the street. Katie was on hold because she arrived just before Christmas and they didn't have enough room for her. Her school began in January after Christmas leave.First you have Basic Engineering Common Core Classes before the actual DC training. If you don't pass a class/test, you have to repeat them. So it roughly takes 10-12 weeks.
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HI !!! My daughter will start GL-DC A-school Sept. 14th, can anybody tell me what she has to look forward to??????????
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