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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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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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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DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP!

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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on October 6, 2009 at 9:25pm: This is how a DC mom (Re(A's Mom) explained it to me before Katie went to DC school................He had Indoc classes, which lasted one week (5 days). Then he started BECC (which is their DC classes). They had a "module" of computer classes followed by the lab that coincides with those classes, then the test over all of that. He said they will do module 1.2.3.4.5.7 and then they pick up module 5 (which is actually their "strand" which is 3 days long).

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on October 6, 2009 at 9:17pm: BECC (Basic Engineering Common Core) classes

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on September 20, 2009 at 10:08pm: The Navy sends them where they are needed. There are a lot of families at the base in Sasebo.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on August 27, 2009 at 9:51am: Click 'View All' under the Discussion Forum above and you'll see the "What a Damage Controlman does....." that NavyMom(Robin) posted for a great overview.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on August 19, 2009 at 11:24pm: Katie didn't call when she arrived in Sasebo because the int'l phone card she had didn't work, but she did e-mail us the following day. My daughter is a DC on the USS Essex. Hard to know when they are actually writing since she is 13 hours ahead of us here in Michigan.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on August 10, 2009 at 1:29pm: Judyann - I would say it is more like 12 weeks. Katie did her indoc classes before Christmas break and then did the actual instruction starting in January . She was done by the end of March.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on August 7, 2009 at 9:45pm: Welcome! My daughter joined 10/8/08 and is on the USS Essex out of Sasebo, Japan. When did you son leave for BC?

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on July 29, 2009 at 5:35pm: Kris - Katie called us on March 5th to tell us she would be on the USS Essex and graduated April 1st.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on July 28, 2009 at 8:41pm: Katie entered BC on 10/8/08 - PIRd 12/5/09 - Grad A School 4/1/09 - and was off to the USS Essex on 4/25/09 after coming home for 2 weeks.

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on July 14, 2009 at 7:55pm: We flew into Milwaukee and stayed at the Ramada Inn on Green Bay Rd. Breakfast starts an hour earlier on the day of PIR-they have a pool as well. During A school we stayed at the LaQuinta near the Gurnee Mall with breakfast and pool as well.