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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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Undesignated...What's Up With That?
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A place for Moms of Undesignated Sailors to share concerns and support each other.
Members: 458
Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2022
Discussion Forum
Nothing Wrong with Undesignated Sailor!
Started by David B. Last reply by NavyBrat Oct 29, 2017. 55 Replies 17 Likes
So I am freaking out a bit!
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Undes 2017
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Comment by ladypinkhatter on November 18, 2010 at 2:15pm
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Thanks msvines. That is what I told her...it appears everyone has a different experience/journey and I also quoted PNB's post "the key is, sailors have to make time to take classes, get extra quals, such things. there is no limit to what anyone can do, only they hold themselves back".
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Comment by mln1 on November 18, 2010 at 12:37pm
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Arwen, is there an A school and a seamanship school for undesignated sailors/pact program??? Is there a difference or are they the same???
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Hi everyone, my daughter is in bc now, its only been about a week. She is in the pact program. Is there a difference as to being an undesignated sailor or in this program. To me it all seems to be the same thing???
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Thank you both. It helps to at least be prepared for whatever might happen.
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Comment by Arwen on November 17, 2010 at 8:43pm
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When she earns a rating, even if she leaves her ship for school she will most likely return to her ship to finish her assignment as a rated sailor before getting another duty station.
There are some ratings that almost never get shore assignments, those sailors spend most of their career on sea duty. My foster son-in-law has been in for 6 years and has never had shore duty. Very few ratings offer shore duty for a sailor's first few years in the Navy. It's a rite of passage, spending the first 3-4 years doing the hard, dirty work.
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Can she get to E3 before the 9 months? Thanks for all of the help just trying to understand what's going on so that I can continue to be encouraging and positive.
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Comment by Andy's_Dad_Eric_CVN-69 on November 17, 2010 at 10:43am
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MY sailor is an e3 but undesignated Airman AN The future is bright for him
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What do they have to do to be an E3?
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Seamanship school teaches undesignated sailors what they need to know about line handling and other deck before they are sent to the fleet. It's like an advanced form of the skills they learned in boot camp.
Seamanship school is not an A school, since they do not earn a rating at the end of the school. Anyone who has finished an A school is a designated striker.
It sounds like your daughter is in seamanship school, not A school.
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Thanks Arwen, she did not get kicked out of school. She in A school right now for four weeks (in GL) and then will go to her fleet and home base for the remainder of her four years and that she cannot strike for a rating for a year and will be out to sea. That is all that she has told me.
What is seamanship school?
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