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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
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Discussion Forum
bootcamp
Started by mtdiane. Last reply by mtmomma May 18, 2011. 4 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Kim on January 1, 2011 at 11:20pm
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Happy New Year everyone!
Kari, how does one join the Blue Star Mothers of Montana?
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Just got back from Virginia Beach and my sons C school graduation. It was fun to see him in his environment and to sight see around the area. We went and stood on the pier where the Big E is docked but didn't go on. Twas a fun weekend!
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Comment by Corie on October 24, 2010 at 2:36am
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Thanks everyone, I am so excited to enlist, I have been thinking about this for awhile and my bf is also in and is very supportive and is encouraging me to do it. I am looking at CS, I want to be a Pastry Chef, but school is so expensive and the Navy has so much to offer. I currently work with food and really enjoy it so I thought it would be the best rate. I am so excited for hearing that everyone's Sailor is doing good. I will keep you guys posted. Thank You again for the Support.
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Comment by Carol Aileen on October 23, 2010 at 10:41pm
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Kari - that would be great if he could get his degree in MT! Aaron wants Nuclear engineering, so MT is out - But Oregon is his first choice.! I'm glad he has a good jump on hte application - he is ahead of the game already.
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Kari, I forgot to mention that there is a sta-21 group - http://www.navyformoms.com/group/sta21ecp not many members yet - but a place to check out!
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Welcome to the group Corie - good luck and Thank You for wanting to serve! Let us know how it is going for you.
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Kari! Wonderful!! Keep us updated how it goes! the wait from July til Oct is hard...lol Airwarriors.com is a good place to watch for results.... they seem to have a way to watch the message traffic. I started watching that site hourly starting the 1st of Oct....results finally came out 10/19.....
have you checked out https://www.sta-21.navy.mil web page?
Its not quite for free.... they do get 10,000 a yr and their normal salary and housing allowance. which is amazing...... and I think that they can use there montgomery bill• Here is info from the sta-21 page.
The VA has authorized the use of the Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB) benefits (Chapter 30 of Title 38) to pay for courses after the service member's STA-21 funds are exhausted, as long as payment is for different courses and not combined to pay for the same course.
•Receive full pay and allowances including BAH and BAS for their enlisted pay grades.
•Be eligible for enlisted advancement.
•Receive up to $10,000 per year, paid to the university to supplement the costs of tuition, fees, and books.
•Upon successful degree completion, be commissioned as active duty Ensigns in the United States Navy (USN). (View current officer and enlisted pay tables from DFAS web site.)
•Maintain medical care and commissary/exchange privileges.
•Be eligible for base housing (area permitting).
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Hello everyone, I am from a town close to Billings and I am currently trying to enlist. I might have to go and get 15 College Credits because I only have my GED, but it will be well worth it to represent our amazing state!
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Congrats, Carol...that is awesome for your son!
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lol Thank you :) its a Officer program for enlisted Sailors - there were over 700 applicants and 115 selected. Aaron's odds were a little higher since he is in the Nuke program - they select more Nukes. I think about 90 nukes applied and 30 were selected. he started the application process last March and we just found out that he was selected 2 days ago! He will go to Officer school for 2 months and then college for 3 yrs and then back through the Nuke pipeline that he is just finishing but now he will learn the Officers side
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