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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).

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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: Feb 14, 2023

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Comment by Concernedad on May 16, 2014 at 10:39am: Thank you

Comment by Concernedad on May 12, 2014 at 9:46pm: I know I've asked this before, but can't find the answer. Can anyone tell me the best place to find E-2 advancement results? Also, when they are or were due to be released?

Comment by Cleaver6 on May 7, 2014 at 11:57am: I have sons that are both ET's; one is a nuke and the other went AECF. The nuke went first of the two. I actually tried to convince him to go the AECF route before he started, but he had his mind made up. I know several ex-nukes and did quite a bit of research on the training pipeline. That's why I suggested he change.

After going through the pipeline and then seeing what the AECF training entailed (through his younger brother), he admitted to me that he wished he had gone that route. He has done well as a nuke, however. It hasn't affected his motivation.

Comment by Anti M on May 7, 2014 at 11:37am: I answered over in the forums. Yeah, he does not get a fallback choice. If he makes it through A school, and fails Power School, he gets to be the conventional version of what he already studied (ET, EM, MM). Usually. If he really messes up, then he could end up undesignated. This is not the end of the world, but it is far more fulfilling to have chosen your rate.

Comment by Navy Nates Mom on May 7, 2014 at 9:49am: thanks ssbeach. Thats kinda what I thought. Ultimately it is his decision but I would be happy if he stayed in the AECF rate.

Comment by ssbeach on May 7, 2014 at 9:42am: I don't know about that, and I can't imagine they'd ever guarantee that. I have several friends who have kids that left nuke school for one reason or another, at different points in their schooling, and none went to anything that they had a choice in. Most went out undesignated within a day or two of being told they were out - some went within hours - and others went to whatever seemed to have a short A school and needed people right away. If anyone tells him that, get it in writing, preferably from someone ranked well above. Remember, it's all about the needs of the Navy and anything can change at any time.

Comment by Navy Nates Mom on May 7, 2014 at 9:35am: Thanks for the helpful comments. They told him that if starts nukes and drops out he can go back to AECF rate, is that correct? or does he just get stuck with whatever is available?

Comment by ssbeach on May 7, 2014 at 9:14am: Fabulous answer, Anti M. My son is an ET on a cruiser and loves it and my son-in-law is a nuke on a sub and loves it. They're two very different fields. Newnavymom, your son needs to pursue what interests him most. If he's not interested in the nuclear field he will be setting himself up for two years of being miserable in school, then four more years of doing a job he may not like, at the least, or he'll fail out on purpose or because the stress is just too much and be reassigned to another job he's not interested in. My son was in the same situation as yours and had the luxury of being able to talk it out with my son-in-law, luckily. He's been the honor graduate at each school along the way and has really applied himself because he loves the field. He would have absolutely tapped out of nuke school.

Comment by Anti M on May 7, 2014 at 8:39am: Does he want to be a nuke? Yes. If not, then no.

AECF offers many good duty station options. The school is moderately difficult, and chances for advancement are not as good as for nukes. However, as an ET, I found the work enjoyable. Many different options for C schools and duty stations. Very much a mainstream Nvy experience.

Nuke school is very difficult, and yes, many flunk out. More are reclassified because of stress or underage drinking, or even being around others who are drinking. Two years of school. Only the larger ships have nuke power plants, and the volunteer submarines. Fewer liberty ports overseas. Nukes are first on the vessel to power it up, and last off when they get home. Nukes do have large reenlistment bonuses and advance well... but that is a perk, not a main reason to choose a rate.

My nephew is a nuke on a sub, he loves it. I was an ET, as was my husband, and my sailor who is in Japan. We all loved our rate.

He should choose what interests him most. He will be doing it (or something similar) the rest of his life even if he does not stay in the Navy.

Comment by Navy Nates Mom on May 7, 2014 at 7:46am: Sorry, new at all this! My son signed up last week for AECF. He took his nuc test yesterday and passed so they want him to switch to nuc. From everything I had read I was very happy with AECF and kinda scared about the nuc program ( hard, dropping out, etc) so should he switch??