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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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Comment by M's mom on May 25, 2017 at 3:33pm
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Welcome Duchess2006,
You might also want to join the group "NUPOC Moms" here on N4M's.
Yes, the Navy ranks are different from Army/AF/Marines. My son is an O-3, (full Lieutenant in the Navy) and he is presently stationed at Yokota, Japan, which is actually an Air Force base. As an O-3, he wears two bars on his collar and is constantly being addressed as "Captain" by the AF enlisted! He loves it, because a Captain is a much higher rank in the Navy (O-6) than in the other services where an O-6 is a full Colonel. When he corrects them that he is a Lieutenant, they are even more confused, because LTs in the other services wear only one gold or silver bar. They probably teach the Navy ranks in the boot camps of the other services, but they learn to just address Navy officers as "Sir/Ma'am" to be safe!! haha
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Thanks Helomom. I went through Army ROTC back in the day (graduated in 1990) and was Chemical officer in the reserves. I'm still trying to translate the officer rank between the two services and as my son reminds me, things have changed since my days in the service. Glad to find this place.
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Comment by Helomom on May 25, 2017 at 1:09pm
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Congratulations and welcome to all of the mothers who have joined us. The Navy will be an exciting ride for all of you as your loved ones embark on this next stage. Our son was an ROTC graduate 20 years ago. it has been quite an adventure.
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Hello everyone, new to this site. My son graduated college and was commissioned two weeks ago through NROTC. He started nuclear power school today in Charleston, beginning of becoming submarine officer.
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Comment by NukeMomCarol on May 23, 2017 at 5:50pm
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Thank you for the welcome
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NukeMomCarol, Welcome! I see that you have also found the OCS Graduate Moms group that is specific to OCS, but read the posts here too, as we have also answered many OCS questions here lately in this group.
As far as when you will be able to see your daughter, probably not until OCS graduation. When my son was at OCS, they could not have visitors, and they were not allowed to leave the base until the very last weekend before graduation.
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I am a new mom of a NUPOC daughter heading to OCS... I am so emotional over the unknown... Can someone guide me... When should I expect to hear from her... When will I be able to see her
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CTNavyMom: That's correct; send nothing but plain envelopes and letters until your son reaches the Candio (Candidate Officer) stage at week 10. Then he can receive goodies. Make sure everyone to whom you give his mailing address knows this. Someone in my son's class got sent cookies at week three by his dear Auntie, and had to do 800 pushups as punishment, and he didn't even ask for them to be sent! My son would have been furious!
They are allowed to call home within the first 48 hours, then you likely won't hear from him again until they get email privileges about week 4. If you have a phone call come in from an unknown number in Rhode Island, answer it! Make sure he knows your phone number and email address by memory. His personal phone will be taken and stored as soon as he gets there, so he will have to dial your number by memory. When he gets email, he will be using a closed government server and will not have access to his usual email program, so he will also have to type in your full.email address.
You will find more discussion about OCS at the group "OCS Graduate Moms" here on Navy for Moms. Join that group and read as many posts as you can, and the discussion forums at the top. We have answered many questions recently for new OCS moms in that group, so you will find more info specific to OCS there. Some of the officers of "Moms of Officers" went through NROTC or the Naval Academy, not OCS.
The mailing address should be on the OCS.navy.mil website, or maybe one of the moms here with a recent graduate can tell you. My son went through 5 years ago, and much has changed, so I usually defer to those with more recent info.
Good luck to your son!
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Thanks for all the helpful advice. I'm looking forward to the connections as we navigate this journey. Quick question: when do we first hear from them? I've heard that they can call home to let us know mailing address etc? And we have many family members who want to write to him. I've heard plain envelopes and include nothing but the letter. Is this right?
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Comment by Anna on May 6, 2017 at 5:45pm
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CTNavyMom,
Your son should get a list from his recruiter as to what to pack. My daughter took two pairs of workout shoes that she liked and knew they fit well. She wore her first pair out!! Also, if you aren't already, join Facebook and look for the group Naval Training Command Newport, and also the friends and family page for your son's class. You will see other groups with the name US Navy OCS class xx-xx Friends and Family, once your son gets there he will call you with his class number. Also join the classes three and six weeks ahead of him so you know what will be coming up next for his class. Best of luck to your son!!!
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