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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?
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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 Jacob94mom on June 25, 2014 at 9:00am
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My sailor starts school today! He is happy only two days of hold. :)
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Comment by sunshine1994 on June 23, 2014 at 8:31am
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I went through in the winter of 2012. Boot camp (Oct 3-Nov 30). I was on hold for ATT as an FC for about a week after Christmas stand-down(Jan. 2013) So depending on the school anyone can be on hold from 3 weeks to 3 months. As far as A school, et and ic are on the same schedule and it rotates every year (not fiscal) from days to nights and vice-versa, which would make them on nights this year.
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Week one of hold for my ET Sailor. (Well ATT first) what is the average hold time anyone have a clue?
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Ah. I mostly know ET's and ICs since we're in night school together. The number one may ET pick, picked San Diego for his permanent duty station, if I'm not mistaken.
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Valentine my son is an FC and currently in C school. His final duty station is San Diego.
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Scottsmom is he in San Diego? ETs in A school all live in the same barracks. I probably know your son.
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My son finished A school in May and is now in C school. He was the Distinguished Military Graduate in his class #1 - Gave him first choice for his assignment! He had done a lot of research on what he wanted to specialize in so that motivated him to study hard so that he would be able to take his pick.
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A school is where it really matters. I was number 11 in my class at ATT but 3 in A school. They're two totally different school.
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That's fantastic information Susan and Valentine! I will be sure to pass that on to my Sailor- great incentive to study hard. :)
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Exactly what susan said. I graduate July 18 and just picked orders on Monday for my permanent duty station. I picked 5 of 30 based on GPA. ATT is 11 weeks long and once he graduates there he'll go to A school for 19 weeks. I had PIR 25 Oct started ATT around 20 November and am still in school and waiting for my hard copies of the orders I picked.
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