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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 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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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.

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Latest Activity: Aug 6

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Comment by Vickyrun on November 5, 2013 at 2:08pm: Nice, GoldnG8r

Comment by MyKidIsInNavy on October 31, 2013 at 9:56pm: Some what of an update....everything got really messed up when the shutdown occurred so that has delayed things quite a bit as far as travel and such. Anyways...Sailor did get his new command (ship) and has 2 C schools enroute. One was to start 11/4, but CPC (if I got that right, the ones handling travel stuff) said they will not have it ready in time for him to detach as said tomorrow from GL, and now he sits and will miss the start of his first C school.....wow wow wow is all I can say. They hope to catch up with travel paperwork by sometime next week and he will head out to C school sometime next week.

Comment by 1proudmomma(SHIP 13 DIV366) on October 31, 2013 at 7:22pm: My son as well as many others got shore duty coming out of Great Lakes. The were given there duty station but he didn't even find out that he got a C school until he got there. He was told he was staff and then given C school assignment. That was in June of this year.

Comment by Anti M on October 31, 2013 at 8:34am: @Marti... Thanksgiving is technically just one business day off, Friday is a working day, although usually just a minimal muster. It won't delay anything much. Usually if she has orders to her new duty station, the C school orders are included in that, she goes to C school en route. Does she have verbal orders or hardcopy orders? It is rare for an ET to go to the fleet without a C school, and that is almost always attached to the orders. She may or may not experience a hold while waiting for her orders, no way to tell until it happens. Odd she "knows" her new duty station, but not the associated C school. Is she positive about where she's going? That isn't usually how it works, sounds like just verbal orders to me.

The stand down is for Christmas, and both A schools and C schools participate in that. The fleet does not. C schools for ETs can be anything from a few weeks to several months.

Comment by MartiB_TX on October 30, 2013 at 11:39pm: My daughter is in A school but should graduate just before Thanksgiving. Will she leave immediately for C school (she is ET) or do they usually hold them a while? Also, does a stand down for holidays affect their leave time any? She knows her base assignment already so when will she get to know what C school she will go to? Sorry for all the questions I just don't know how it all works.

Comment by Chris, Forever Ray's Proud Mom on October 30, 2013 at 6:54pm: Thanks Anti M, that's what I thought…. :(

I appreciate your thoughts Vickyrun, don't want to make her life any more miserable….

Comment by Vickyrun on October 30, 2013 at 12:02pm: There is an effort in congress to take the reporting of sexualharrasment/abuse/rape out of the chain of command excatly becasue of problems like this one. Speaking out and going to your congressional contact would not be a bad idea.

For more info go to: http://www.notinvisible.org/

To help; click on Take Action and sign the petition

Comment by Anti M on October 30, 2013 at 8:23am: They cannot stop her from seeing a chaplain. No way that has to be approved by her chain of command. That is supposed to entirely private and personal.

I don't know what is going on, but there's obviously more to it than we can know. It doesn't sound right at all. Getting a congressional rep involved brands her as someone who can't handle her own affairs, a label which will follow her.

Comment by Chris, Forever Ray's Proud Mom on October 29, 2013 at 6:43pm: Anti M, another gal has tried to get to the Chaplan, but after making an appt, which must have to go thru rank for approval, it is stopped.

Comment by Chris, Forever Ray's Proud Mom on October 29, 2013 at 6:39pm: Thanks Anti M, One mom stated her daughter has tried a couple of these things and is being blocked, but will forward this to her. Is the parent asking questions outside of the military sending backlashes? A congressional contact from her home state looking into the allegations a bad road to take?