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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!

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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

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Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

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**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).

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**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 01/25/2013 TG 11 - 9 Divisions (069-076 and 911)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 01/25/2013.

A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Your current Group "veteran members" are:

diannep

LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons

ellen0502

♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW

Betsy, son on Stennis carrier

Craig

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 74
Latest Activity: Feb 23, 2013

WELCOME to PIR 01/25/2013! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP.

CLICK MEforN4M's Community GuidelinesandOPSEC.

~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.

~N4M’s also has Community Guidelines just like any other social media.

~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.

~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:

• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:

• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.

Some Suggestions:

~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.

~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option

~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends".

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You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 01/25/2013 TG 11 - 9 Divisions (069-076 and 911) to add comments!

Comment by jdrs1606 on January 30, 2013 at 3:09pm: DM (Ship03 Div 075) - I totally agree with everything your wrote below. It was a great time. Sarge and his crew were awesome shlepping us from one place to another and providing solid information. Sarge's M&G was really great and yes, Chicago was very cold. We are also staying in touch via Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/492208057486722/

Comment by Dm (Ship 03 Division 075) on January 30, 2013 at 2:43am: Hello everyone, we had a wonderful time at our PIR...very emotional !! We are so proud of all the young men and women, God bless every single one of them. My son was so happy to see us and I couldn't stop crying, it truly was an exciting and once in a lifetime experience. I'm also very excited to say that I met some of you and it was great. I only hope that we stay in touch even if it's only a hi and bye once in awhile. I would like to thank everyone who made our BC journey a lot smoother! God bless every single one of YOU!
BTW, The Navy Lodge was great, Sarge's meet and greet was full of lots of information and Chicago was very cold!!!

Comment by MOMMY B on January 29, 2013 at 12:30pm: I just wanted to say how great the PIR was. I was not only proud of our son but of everyone there that had accomplished boot camp. My husband and I totally enjoyed the time with our son and getting to see him off at the air port. Thanks for all the suggestions and heads up on things. I found it very helpful.

Comment by MYSAILORSCOOPS0525 on January 29, 2013 at 10:05am: Good Morning Everyone!

Havent been on since before PIR...I wanted to say thank you to all of the vets that have helped us get through our bootcamp experience...

diannep

LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons

ellen0502

♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW

Betsy, son on Stennis carrier

Craig

lemonelephant

I'd be so clueless if it weren't for this site so once again THANK YOU!!

PIR was amazing....so worth the wait! Congratulations to everyone on your new Sailors!! Sending blessings your way as the journey continues....

All the best! =0)

Comment by diannep on January 29, 2013 at 8:58am: You are very welcome, Tnnavymom! Remember...you are all N4Moms veterans now....so feel free to drop into the PIR groups anytime to share your wisdom and experiences!

Blessings to each of you and your sailors as they continue their training!

Comment by Tnnavymom on January 28, 2013 at 11:23pm: Thank you FTLW and to all the others for helping us and providing info to us as we went through the new experience of becoming sailor moms and loved ones. What yall do here is priceless and I thank you all for your time to guide us through this. God bless yall and keep you always!

Comment by Mommahead on January 28, 2013 at 9:16pm: I didn't go to Chicago...am holding out for Spring Break in Monterey, but it was an amazing, though short, time for my hubby and daughter to have time together. She so needed a little TLC. Glad to eat, shower, and sleep in a real bed. It's quite amazing to see the maturity and the knowledge that she is on her own. She is so excited about going to DLI and was happy to sleep in on Sunday and have no one yelling at her! Now, every waking thought will NOT be about Bootcamp, thank goodness!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on January 28, 2013 at 5:27pm: We have changed the Title of your Group to "Alumni of PIR..." as that is what you all are now!

Please feel free to keep coming here to connect with your fellow PIR Alumni. The Group will remain for you all.

Thank you for allowing us to go along with you on your Boot Camp journey! Blessings to you and your Sailors as they start their Navy careers!

FTLW

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on January 28, 2013 at 2:42am: Kathy - You had the exact same experience I did at the AP :-) Mine left at 5:45 AM. He was very sad we could not have more time as he was one of the last processed through. Another Sailor waited for him and walked with him. It was hard to leave him with tears in his eyes...but so nice to see a shipmate stand by him. :,,-)

Comment by 3athlete on January 27, 2013 at 11:34pm: So - other thing that I wanted to say is that in going to the airport, it allowed my husband and I to sit back and just observe his interactions with his shipmates and we really enjoyed that. Seeing the maturity and leadership skills that we observed in just that short time. All Sailors appeared to be extremely nice and supportive of one another. So nice to see.

Our sailor has texted with us 3 times since arrival in San Antonio - Sounds very happy and upbeat. Says that everyone if "very pleasant and nice" - which I guess means no one is yelling at them.... Looking forward to hearing from him by phone in the next day or so. Well we are certainly off to a new adventure from here ladies! Kathy