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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.
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- Graduation Info
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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
Discussion Forum
Anybody out there?
Started by Jules. Last reply by Bandmom Aug 24, 2021. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Current A school at GL for AECF?
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Anyone graduating A school on 10/26/18
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Comment by Anti M on September 29, 2014 at 9:40am
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Well, I separated from the Navy in Japan, and became a dependent wife. The government jobs I was eligible for closed to me because they didn't want to hire a dependent. And I may have been discriminated against because I was female, but I can't prove that. I turned to teaching, by the time we returned to the US, my electronic knowledge was a bit out of date. I was offered a job in LA, but did not want to move there. I could have found work in electronics, but chose to pursue education instead. Had I separated in the US, I would have had better career choices. My husband is a retired ET, and his good jobs fell through (one for the South Pole because of a weird health thing, the other to government cuts the DAY he was supposed to begin). He drives a truck now and loves it.'
The thing is, the Navy provides more than just the training in a specific rate. Leadership, organizational skills, critical thinking, decision making, attention to detail, finance, study skills, and much more. The confidence alone is astonishing. Even being a petty officer is worth college credits. So yes, I used my knowledge, even if it was not electronics specific.
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Comment by Christine Proud Son of ET on September 28, 2014 at 9:22pm
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Thank you Anti M. This gives me great insight into his rate. Were you able to use your knowledge after you left the military?
Jacob94mom...what is MNS?
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I was an ET, is a very versatile rate. Anything from communications systems, to crypto, to radar, to computers, even calibrating test equipment. Sometimes we were called "Everything Techs". I went to a long initial C school, but picked up several more during my nine years. I was secure communications, Top Secret stuff. So was my husband, but he also held NECs for radar. We both were certified 2M techs, micro-miniature repair.
I don't know what the current teaching style at ET A school is like, but when I went through, it was instructor led, with hands on troubleshooting modules. With the advances in electronics, I know the troubleshooting is less detailed than what I did, as we repaired down to the component, and now there is more swapping out boards and modules (which will make more sense to your sailor than to you, possibly).
The two ratings were completely separate when I was an ET; although I took an FC test as part of a pilot program when they looked at combining them. There has always been a rivalry, think about football teams and their fans. Both are important, and AECF in general is looked on as a good education. Not as prestigious as nuke, but nearly so.
A note about some of the military sites, they'll tell you they are unsafe, but that is not so. Just slightly outdated programs which make our personal security programs nervous.
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The. famous blue screen lol. That's the one! It's not the best method of learning for him. He has a liw 90s average so he is doing ok. Wants to do much better in A school. He did mention he would be moving to the night hours like your sailor.
Thanks so much for sharing. I feel so fortunate to be part of the group! Gid Bless all our sIailors and their moms! Love you gals!!!
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Comment by Jacob94mom on September 28, 2014 at 10:35am
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Christine Proud- my son is in week 3 of A school for ET. He is having a much easier time with it then ATT. Then he was is MNS for 5 of the 11 weeks but made it through. They have night school- 3:30- 11:30 pm, which was a bit of an adjustment, but he is more of a night owl anyway. He says he isn't staring at a blue screen as much. Hope that answered your question.
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Thanks LAG. This was very helpful. And I agree they would say thei rate. is the best. He is happy with ET.
Does anyone know if the style of teaching is the same in A school as ATT? My sailor heard it would be different and he hopes this is true.
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I was able to access the page with no problem. Thanks LAG. My son is an ET...it seems like there are more FCs. Does anyone know how they get assigned? My son really wanted FC. He is doing great in ATT; 3 more weeks to go. He can't wait to start A school.
Is FC considered higher than ET?
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Comment by littleman14 on September 27, 2014 at 10:28am
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LAG, the FC site you have posted is telling me that it is unsafe for my computer to open... is it OK to push through it? or do I need to try something different to see the information on this site?
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Comment by Deb (FC Mom) on September 25, 2014 at 9:27pm
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Son is Navy, son-in-law will be done with USAF at end of month & daughter just graduated Army boot on Friday...working on fluency. Son is FC.
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Bilingual, huh? Good skill!
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