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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

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:

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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Looking forward to this emotional roller coaster ride together
with the family and friends of my son's fellow recruits!!

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Time is passing by and I haven't made flight plans for PIR.  Do you fly into Chicago?  I'm sure there's a page for this....can someone direct me to it?

2 days ago I received a call from my son requesting names, addresses and phones of his security references.  He couldn't chit chat, but it was so good to hear his voice.  He said they are on Day 1, Week 1 of training.  I was surprised that processing took so long.

I haven't scheduled our flights yet either. You can fly into O'Hare or Midway.

I received the same type of phone call from my son.  He needed the birth places of his step father and step sisters and couldn't remember what year his little brother was born.  I got to talk to him twice for about 3 minutes but it made my entire month.

Just wondering where everyone's SR will be going for A school, my son will be going to Pensacola, FL to be a CTN.

My son, Ryan is going to Pensacola for IT.

Great! So our boys will be flying down together.

That is nice to know.  I am glad Ryan will be back in Florida.  It is a 7 hour drive but I hope to go see him when he is in Pensacola.

We are flying from Tampa to Midway.  My husband and I will be traveling with our youngest so I was thrilled to find flights from Tampa to Midway that were nonstop.  

What day are you planning on arriving in Chicago?

We plan on getting there on Thursday the 12th, we will be staying at the Ramada. Wow your in Tampa, we are in Orlando! we plan on saving all our vacation time so that we can take 1 or 2 days here and there to take long weekends to visit him in Pensacola. From everything I have read he will get some liberty to there. There are several groups on here from pensacola, this one http://www.navyformoms.com/group/sailorsinpensicolaflforaschool?xg_... and a CTN one that I joined. You can get some information there.

I have not booked our flights yet, I am torn on flying back on Saturday or Sunday, when are you coming back?

We are coming back on Sunday.  Ryan said he wouldn't know until week 6 or 7 if he was going to have weekend leave or not so I decided to take the chance and come home on Sunday.  If he doesn't have any leave time, we will do a little site seeing in Chicago.

We are staying at the Navy Lodge.  It was $65 a night with no sales tax.

 

 

 

 

I better make a decision soon on the flight. Are you going to any of the meet & greets?

I was thinking about it but I'm not sure how "family" friendly they are since we will have our 8 year old with us.  If they are then we would enjoy going and meeting the other families.

Check out the meet & greet discussion for our PIR, I think you can take children to some of them.

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