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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!

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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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Moms of Aviation Rescue Swimmers

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Members: 317
Latest Activity: Aug 18, 2021

This group is for family members and friends of Aviation Rescue Swimmers, or sailors in training to be Aviation Rescue Swimmers

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Comment by Eaglemom2 on April 11, 2014 at 8:12pm: Just talked to my son, feeling really good - kicked the pt today. There was a young man came to his room that is in his class too, a Thompson. Anyone on here that belongs to him please send me a message.

Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on April 11, 2014 at 10:03am: Hey yall, is there any news yet on our boys who started RSS last week????

THANK you Jodi.... actually he wants me to meet him up in Colorado at his sisters house when he gets his leave... so he can see us both together...and she can not take off work to go to the Homecoming... BUT I sure wish I could have gone to it... darn lottery!!!!! Can't seem to win any numbers! hahaha But its okay cause we will smother him with hugs and kisses there.... and I am hoping to make a trip next year to San Diego to see him and meet his squadron...

Comment by Jodi-alumni Ship 4 on April 10, 2014 at 11:08am: How wonderful Lydia. So glad your son will be home soon. Any chance you will be able to meet the ship? I hope so. You deserve to give your boy a big hug!

Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on April 10, 2014 at 10:11am: HI Proudmomca..... AND ANY OF YALL whose kids are heading to San Diego........If your son is looking for a church ... my B goes to one where a LOT of Navy and Marines go when they are home... its a cool kinda laid back board short and flip flops church... but super active in the Pacific Beach and Ocean Beach community.... their young people are always doing something!! They even have a Surfing ministry!!!! let me know and I will send you a link to their site etc.... I know the pastor and wife personally... they are awesome lovely people!

I am happy that yalls boys are happy!!!! When they are happy WE are happy hahahahaha.... reminds me of the song HAPPY by Pharrel Williams! love that song!

xoxoxoxoxoxox my son will be home from the USS Boxer in a few weeks!! yippie.... HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY mamma!

Comment by proudmama on April 6, 2014 at 9:50am: Proudmomca, Jodi, Saltyocean, and aster.... Thanks so much for the info regarding Romeo, where your sons are in the pipeline and how they like it there! My son is waiting for A school to start...still in Indoc at this time. He loves being in P'cola. The guys who are in this portion of the pipeline seem to all be good friends. They certainly take advantage of being at the beach and my son has learned to skim board. He loves it!!! I don't think he is in a hurry to leave P'cola:)

Comment by Saltyocean on April 5, 2014 at 10:44pm: To proudmama, My son seems to like what he is doing. He requested Romeo, inspite of the longer schooling. He said the first few weeks of classes were hard, but now has gotten into the flow of things, is getting more out of it, doing much better in class, and is very proud of himself. He like the subject matter, and says it's all "new stuff".

Comment by Jodi-alumni Ship 4 on April 5, 2014 at 8:26pm: Proudmama, my son just graduated FRS in Jacksonville and is home for a week before heading to San Diego for his first duty station. He really seems to like what he is doing and I think he is ready to get started doing his job.

Comment by aster on April 5, 2014 at 6:26pm: SalyOcean ~ my son is ROMEO ~ he found out he was going to San Diego about a week-2 weeks before graduation he was going to San Diego for FRS. The day after graduation he flew to San Diego and on Monday he went to SERE. He will graduate FRS the last Friday in May and is waiting to hear where he will be stationed.

Proudmama that is awesome! As you know Coronado is a great place to visit! A school is tough! Lots of studying and lots of tests...just tell him to keep his nose to the grindstone and he will do fine. :)

Comment by oneproudmomca on April 5, 2014 at 11:02am: proudmama.....from a Mom's perspective, my son liked "A" school, at least no complaints. Lots of studying. As far as Romeo, he loves it, that is what he wanted once he got to Pensacola. Good Luck to your son in A school, once done, I hope he gets where he wants to go.

Comment by proudmama on April 4, 2014 at 11:13pm: Oneproudmomca, and Saltyocean- My son was just assigned to Romeo... wondered how A school was for your sons and I also wondered how do they like Romeo? Any thoughts about the A school experience from a Mom's perspective?