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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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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Discussion Forum
Care packages for new graduates (a school)
Started by Cali's mama. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Mar 19, 2021. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Looking for current information for my daughter on what's allowed for care packages..idk if it matters that she is in the great lakes location or not..ship 7 div 136...lonely mom with confused tears lol
Bootcamp arrival Sept 8, 2020??
Started by Stephanie0725. Last reply by Shoosh Oct 5, 2020. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hello! Got the call that my daughter made it to bootcamp quarantine last night 09/08/2020. Looking for other moms out there on the same timeline. Sadie is my baby, only daughter, and only child in the military. I think I am going to need lots of…Continue
PIR DATE: December 13, 2019
Started by Donita. Last reply by Donita Nov 5, 2019. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Anyone else’s recruit have a PIR date ofDecember 13, 2019?Continue
Arrived at boot camp October 2nd
Started by Donita. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Nov 5, 2019. 26 Replies 1 Like
Hey everyone- my daughter left for boot camp October 2nd. I missed a call from her last Friday telling me that her graduation is December 13th. I feel like the worst mom in the world for missing her call. Really didn’t expect her to call so soon but…Continue
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Comment by hellraiser78382 on August 7, 2015 at 12:47pm
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Good Morning Everyone, I had to make some changes to my posters I made so now i can re upload them, For the ones that were asking you can make posters to hang on your door if you stay at the Navy Lodge to represent your Sailor. We have 21 days as of today til Graduation, This poster is for our door!!
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Comment by Oneofalot on August 7, 2015 at 8:53am
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Good Morning to Everyone.
Thanks everyone. I will let you know on Monday if I got the job or not. She was going to call Monday morning before all my interviews that week.
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Comment by Oleander on August 7, 2015 at 12:32am
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Prayers Jean!
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Awww, thank you Anna. I'm collecting buckets for the future! LOL (not really laughing).
I think your point is well taken, thanks for that perspective about the crew's opinion possibly being skewed. I know she'll settle in.
Just got a call from her as I'm writing. She's definitely lonely but had a good talk w/ another DC who said she came at a very stressful time - change of command, tons of inspections, pushing to get the ship ready by Dec. Both your comment and the DC's made sense to her.
Thanks for the support and letting me vent. I'm not used to being on such uneven ground. You've helped a lot.
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Comment by spyder013 on August 6, 2015 at 9:58pm
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Prayers Jean!
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Comment by Anna on August 6, 2015 at 9:17pm
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Jean,
Sending prayers your way!!! God knows you deserve a solid job that will last you for many years!!!!
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Thanks to know that.
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Good Evening to Everyone.
I have a request, can everyone pray that I get this job I went for the interview today for. It was a very good interview and she wanted to hire me on the spot but had other people to interview with. I did just get and email from the lady needing my supervisors from my last few job. She had called all my references. So I'm hoping and praying I get the job. Thanks for praying for me and letting me ramble on.
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Oleander,
Sorry she isn't getting a warm welcome from her fellow shipmates. I'm just guessing here but if two other females chose to separate cause they couldn't handle it, they could have colored the other crew members into having a negative opinion of one more female coming on board. Hopefully your girl will be able to change their opinions real fast!!! Also praying everything smooths out for her. And trust me, I cried multiple buckets the first several months of separation with Catherine - boot, A school, and then she got orders to WA and we lived in Ohio then!!!! Might as well have gone to the other side of the world!!! Then when Jennifer left for OCS I cried a few more buckets!!!! I think you have a ways to catch up!!!!!!
Thank you for the cast list Blondie!!!!
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Morning everyone. Wow, love the posters, centerpieces, pictures and news since Tuesday.
Well....she's on board her ship. Must say it was pretty rough. Such a body slam of emotion rolled into her 12 days of leave. 1st she wasn't comfortable being home in civilian life, then of course she relaxed and we had a wonderful time. By yesterday morning there were lots of tears as she put on her dress whites and said goodbye. Thankfully her sponsor has been great but she said the rest of the crew has been cold and rude. It's only day 1-- I'm sure (I'm praying) it will all work out. However she learned yesterday that there are 2 girls on her ship who have purposely separated from the Navy because they "hate" this so much.That's terrifying and not an opton!!!. I reminded her that it's always tough being the new kid, now matter how old we are.
Anna - love how everything worked out for your daughter, it sounds like a perfect place. I hope all of our girls will have such luck in the future.
Don't know how all you veteran moms have made it through this so well. I cried on and off the whole 5 hour drive home yesterday. Today is better though - now I get to clean her room again. LOL
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