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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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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

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**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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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AECF - FCs and ETs

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For families that have a loved one serving the Navy as an FC or an ET. This is the place to share and learn more about their jobs and schools. For subs - look for the SECF group.

Members: 834
Latest Activity: Feb 14, 2023

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Comment by Stephanie on March 2, 2016 at 7:30pm: How do they determine if a recruit will placed as an ET or FC? My son was recently placed as an FC for his "A" School after graduation on March 18th but originally wanted ET. Just curious as to how they determine where to place them.

Comment by Anti M on February 2, 2016 at 10:22pm: Base pay depends on how long they're in and their paygrade. Other allowances such as BAH and BAS, sea pay, etc. can be found with a quick google search. Anything which is a "pay" is taxed, allowances are untaxed. Some states tax, some do not.

https://www.navycs.com/charts/2016-military-pay-chart.html

Comment by Mami Bianca on February 2, 2016 at 8:42pm: Hi I would like to know about the pay an ET gets thru all phases is there a link to see this?thanks

Comment by Anti M on February 2, 2016 at 8:54am: Welcome. I was an ET, it is a great rating, very versatile. Your son is an E-3 right now, so he is an ETSN ( ET seaman). He will be an ET3 (E-4) after he completes A school. He'll get teased if he gets mail addressed as if he were a petty officer before he is one!

Comment by Mami Bianca on February 1, 2016 at 2:20pm: Hii am new in this group, my son just finished boot camp he is an ET3 looking forward to hear all news related to his rating and Moms news+ advises ..

Comment by Anti M on January 30, 2016 at 11:28am: They learn during boot camp is they'll be FC or ET. Towards the middle/end, but they do know by PIR.

Comment by Lavenderen on January 29, 2016 at 11:06pm: Yeah Navyfam he won't find out until after boot, my husband is an FC he is on hold for 3 months also

Comment by Navyfam on January 29, 2016 at 11:02pm: Promise, my husband graduates March 18 and is AECF but I don't think he'll know if he's FC till after RTC right?

Comment by Promise on January 29, 2016 at 10:15pm: Just got to talk with our Sailor for a few minutes. He said he would probably be on hold until May. Finished indoc today, but he sounds a little frustrated that he will have to wait so long for school to start. He's going to be an FC. Are there not many graduating from RTC going into AECF FC school right now?

Comment by Anti M on January 25, 2016 at 8:16pm: I spent time on holds long ago; little has changed. I cleaned, did office work, shoveled snow, painted. Some at the barracks, sometimes at other commands like the old dental office. The best one was when I got to work in the school ET shop, learning to solder on the circuit boards the students had been practicing on.