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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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- Graduation Info
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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!
Started by tracemc. Last reply by NavyBrat Oct 29, 2017. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Undes 2017
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Comment by sjr23 on September 7, 2010 at 6:15pm
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Well, we just heard that our sailor has now been disenrolled from corpsman school. He said he'll be moving to the other side of the base for a couple weeks until they find him a spot to go to the fleet as undesignated. So, now it is a new learning game for us. We support him regardless of where or how he serves - we are just proud that he has chosen the Navy. So, now I have a couple questions: I've been reading that there is an undes school. Where is this located and did I read correctly that it is two weeks long? Then, do they ship straight to the fleet or do they have any time off and then ship? How long is the wait in general before they go? Thanks for those of you who have already commented when I thought we were heading toward undes. It helps so much to have others who have been there before share a little of what it was like!
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Comment by Arwen on September 6, 2010 at 3:07pm
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sjr, my son timed-out of IT A school (had less than a day's worth of work remaining to graduate when he hit the final deadline). They offered him two other schools, Aviation Electronics and Yeoman, but he didn't want either of those jobs. He was in holding for 2 weeks waiting for the paperwork, then was sent to basic seamanship school for two weeks, came home on leave, and is now in Japan.
He wants something more active, such as gunner's mate or Seabee. He doesn't want to sit behind a desk or crouch under a plane for his whole Navy career. Choosing undesignated is his way of exploring his options.
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Cheryle, it's nine months from E-2 to E-3. Six months after making E-3 they can take the next E-4 exam.
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PTBs is the "powers that be," aka anyone who is in charge, whomever makes the decisions regarding the subject.
What we're trying to figure out is why they say he made E-2 *before* his time in rate date. When did he get it, and why?
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ok...my sailor is not undesignated, but I have a feeling he's going to be - so I am looking for others' stories that may be similiar. He's struggling in A school to be a corpsman. He just failed his third test by one question and goes before the Academic Review Board on Tuesday morning. Anyone ever have any experience with this? thanks!
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Comment by CrackerjackMom on September 5, 2010 at 1:20pm
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My daughter came out of Basic Seamen class as an E-2, she didn't know she was. The day she left Great Lakes was when she was told, she became an E-2 before PIR but never knew it.
I don't know...go figure. I guess it happens.
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Chris doesn't know what rate he is! He called yesterday, and said the PTBs at Sasebo are telling him he's already an E-2. But no one told him this before, and he should have a couple of weeks to go before his time-in-rate promotion. He doesn't know when or why he might have already become an E-2. He doesn't remember anyone ever telling him he got a promotion at either of his schools.
Has anyone else had this happen?
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Right, like Hoppi said, sailors have to wait for the end of their enlistment to change services. Then they will be evaluated, if they have poor evaluations in the Navy, it's unlikely the Army or Marines will take them. So if he wants to go Army, then he needs to do his best where he is now to earn it, no matter how much he doesn't like his current job or situation.
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Ray Ray, when you say "blue to green" are you referring to going from seaman to airman, or Navy to Army?
Deborah, she begins striking as soon as she arrives. Everything she does from the time she arrives is applied to her evaluations to determine what they allow her to strike for. If she wants to be in a computer-related rating, she should start helping out whenever computers are around. If she wants to be a corpsman, she should take all the CPR and first aid classes and be janie on the spot to help out when someone gets hurt, even minor injuries.
She also needs to find a mentor who is currently in her preferred field. During her free time she needs to be there learning what they can teach her. She will need a recommendation for what school she wants, and having someone in that rating write that recommendation means a lot.
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Comment by Deborah (CTT son) on September 3, 2010 at 1:17pm
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Crackerjackmom - Thanks really looking forward to PIR next week.
Arwen - I'm really new at this, when can she "strike" for something else? I think I heard that she has to wait a few months to do that, right?
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