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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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Nuke School Charleston

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My husband is in Nuke school at the NWS in Charleston, SC. We are enjoying it here! This group's for anyone who wants to talk.

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Comment by CEWnukegf Ship13 Div266 on August 11, 2014 at 11:35pm: WearsLargeHats, thank you! All of your information has been very helpful, especially the subway tip! I really appreciate it and I'm hoping all goes smoothly! Fingers crossed.

Comment by chelc33 on August 11, 2014 at 8:50pm: Mamma D, no my son didn't mention that but it must have been a last minute decision because he just told me this past weekend.

Comment by dentalchick on August 11, 2014 at 8:42pm: Thank you! My son doesn't really keep me informed a lot of what is going on. :)

Comment by Mamma D on August 11, 2014 at 8:23pm: Chelc33 I read in another group the ceremony is only for spouses! Did you hear that also?

Comment by WearsLargeHats on August 11, 2014 at 5:41pm: CEWnukegf, you should be able to spend some time with your guy, though there is always some possibility of a SNAFU. When we visited our son last year for Veteran's Day, one of his suitemates joined us for a Saturday outing. He had just done PIR the day before, so I know it is possible. Timing can't be planned, but you will meet him at the Fletcher Rd. Subway, and return back there well in advance of curfew. I just remarked on the rules because that is something to get used to. If you live close to Charleston, meeting him on the weekend is a good plan -- you will get to spend more time with him that way than you likely would after PIR.

Comment by chelc33 on August 11, 2014 at 4:46pm: This Friday, there will be a ceremony for GC Prototype graduation on the USS Yorktown. I really wish I could make it. But my sailor is coming home next week! Can't wait to see him. :)

Comment by Mamma D on August 11, 2014 at 3:52pm: I wouldn't call the graduation from Prototype at BS brief there were a few short speeches very family oriented ceremony!

Comment by SoCal_Sailor_Dad on August 11, 2014 at 2:41pm: Re: Thanksgiving - it is possible to get leave. My son was in A school last Thanksgiving and visited his uncle in NYC.

Comment by suebal MM3 USS California SSN781 on August 11, 2014 at 2:40pm: Regarding grad from Prototype - Ballston Spa has a very brief ceremony of presenting the graduation certificates. My son, who graduated from Goose Creek PT, did not have any kind of ceremony...just "you passed, here's your certificate, get outta here."

Comment by suebal MM3 USS California SSN781 on August 11, 2014 at 2:39pm: Eric's Mom, he will get the standard 10-day standdown that everyone else gets...unless his grades are waaaaaaaaaaay below where they should be. The entire school shuts down.