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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).

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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Undesignated...What's Up With That?

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A place for Moms of Undesignated Sailors to share concerns and support each other.

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Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2022

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Comment by semaggie on April 26, 2011 at 1:04pm: Heard from daughter last night; she has been given the position of yeoman for her division. We are all happy about that since she is undes!! But I am wondering, there is an A school for this but she has not been there, sooo how does this work?

Comment by Carol in fla on April 26, 2011 at 12:43pm: Did anyone find out what an undes pact airman does? I would be interested in knowing, myself. I guess that is more specific than a regular undes airman?

Comment by Mamamary805 (Joe's mom) on April 26, 2011 at 12:00pm: juliad-According to my son he will be there for a month only then off to San Diego.

Comment by juliad(ship09div137) on April 21, 2011 at 7:58am: Mamamary, I am so happy for you that youre only 3 hrs away from your sailor! When you say short A school how short are you talking?

Comment by Mamamary805 (Joe's mom) on April 20, 2011 at 7:26pm: My son graduated bc on 4-15 & is @ A school in Pensicola for a short time then off to San Diego-USS Ronald Reagan.

What exactly does a undesignated pact airman do?

I am from Cali, three hours away from SD...........=)

Comment by juliad(ship09div137) on April 20, 2011 at 8:23am: Angie, thank you for replying! His orders were typed and given to him, so they werent verbal. Somewhere, either on the orders or just was told, the term "soft' orders. I am going to make myself get use to this Hurry up and wait business if it kills me! He text me last night and said that everyone was just called that was headed to P'cola, everyone but him and one other sailor.

Comment by adm60 on April 19, 2011 at 12:39pm: Maisy: my Sailor (pir 2/4/11) also AN, had a very short a school also and then was aboard the Uss Carl Vinson practically before I could catch my breath. Check out the Pensacola Moms group--they are really good...and the discussion about arriving in P"cola is great.

Comment by juliad(ship09div137) on April 19, 2011 at 12:28pm: Maisy, My son graduated bc on 4/15 also. He is still in Great Lakes waiting for his orders to go to Pensacola for A school. I have NO IDEA why he didn't go with the rest of the group, it truly worries me. He is also an undesignated airmen. Before PIR he received "soft" orders saying where he'd be stationed, whiched tickled me. I have NO IDEA how much I can be certain those soft orders are true.

Comment by semaggie on April 18, 2011 at 8:10pm: Angie- have passed this info along to daughter, do appreciate your expertise! She did not fail out of A school, never got there! There were actually two Chiefs that had tried to intervene but not in time, unfortunately.

Comment by maisy321 on April 17, 2011 at 11:49am: Hi all ~ I am from Pittsburgh, PA. My son just graduated boot camp on 4/15 and is now on his way to Pensacola for a very short A-school. He is an undesignated airman (not sure how I feel about that). Hope to get lots of questions answered and feel better about this. Thanks!