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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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November Boot Camp Family

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This group was formed to support the families of recruits that shipped to bootcamp in November of 2009.

Members: 30
Latest Activity: Nov 16, 2020

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Comment by navywife4life2009 on December 1, 2009 at 10:48pm: my husband is a "grad and Go" so alot of family and friends are going to great lakes to c my husband. Does anyone know a website to rent a condo, house or apartment for the wk? we figured maybe getting a house or something 4 the wk we could just split the cost between ea. other. THANKS! Sara:)

Comment by Lisa A on December 1, 2009 at 7:49pm: Hi folks, Just received the 2nd letter today. I't broke my heart!! Here I was thinking he was having a great Thanksgiving meal and enjoying a little time off. He was off all right They yanked his wisdoms Wed. before Thanksgiving. His letter was still very up beat and excited, but very sore and hungry. I have also booked our Hotel at the Ramada. They do have a good pkg. Hope to see alot of you there

Comment by Cindy D on December 1, 2009 at 7:40pm: I GOT A LETTER! My first one. I am so excited. He sounds so good. The letter was 11 pages long. I can't believe it. I was hoping for at least a half a page. He said that writing helped him. But he did say that his divison is not working so well together. But he sounded so good! Yeah! I feel so much better. I was really getting down.

Comment by mother always on December 1, 2009 at 2:54pm: Navy Lodge or Red Carpet Inn,this one has a shuttle and that's where I'll be staying...
Nice afternoon

Comment by Cindy D on November 30, 2009 at 9:17pm: I just made my reservation at Ramada for the PIR on Jan 15. Yeah!

Comment by mother always on November 30, 2009 at 7:16pm: Does anybody know something about any of the recruits in Ship 13 Div 62????!!!!!!!!!
Any calls or letters..........
Today I received the box (jeans were missing) it was sent the 19th.
Good night all!!

Comment by I'm Laurie the Sailor's Mom! on November 30, 2009 at 6:10pm: Fed Ex just delivered our box. No surprises in it. . . except the rolled up jeans. I asked my son about that and he said it was the first thing they were ordered to do. He didn't think it had anything to do with the shoe-sizing machine, maybe just a test of instant obedience.

Comment by Cindy D on November 30, 2009 at 5:17pm: I have not made my reservations yet but I'm guessing that Ramada Inn is the one to go with.
I told my son that I would send him a bigger envelope once a week so he could send back whatever letters and cards he wanted that way he did not have to throw them away.

Comment by Cindy D on November 30, 2009 at 4:43pm: I am with you. my son left on the 16th also and I am just dying to get a letter or call or something. Although reading about some of the letters that moms have received I am now scared! My heart and prayers go out to all that have received sad letters!

Comment by Margaret_ProudTexasMomof2Sailors on November 30, 2009 at 12:13am: Jodia, I hate driving, but I did need one. I flew into Milwaukee. Although there are shuttles from Ohare, there are none from Milwaukee. It is in Wisconson, not IL.
Also, I stayed in the Navy Laodge, agian, no shuttle to PIR. I used less than a tank of gas.
Cindy, go to: www1.netc.navy.mil/nstc/rtcgl/contact_recruit.asp
It hass the correct mailing address for all the ships.