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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:
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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:
**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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ALUMNI OF PIR 03/14/2014 TG 18 - 11 Divisions (103-110, 808, 809, 918)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on March 14, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 89
Latest Activity: May 9, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 03/14/2014! 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.
~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"
Discussion Forum
Ship 04 (USS Arleigh Burke) Divisions 808 and 809 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by mtnestr Mar 19, 2014. 135 Replies 4 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 103 and 104 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Laurablue Mar 15, 2014. 307 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 107 and 108 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Hoagie Mar 12, 2014. 192 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 03/Division 106
Started by mamanance. Last reply by mamanance Mar 11, 2014. 2 Replies 0 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Mar 10, 2014. 12 Replies 2 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 918
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Mikey'sWife Mar 10, 2014. 51 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 03 (USS Hopper) Divisions105 and 106 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by FavoredLife Mar 6, 2014. 23 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 109 and 110 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ArmHawkmamma Feb 26, 2014. 34 Replies 4 Likes
^^^^ BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by ellen0502 Jan 27, 2014. 1 Reply 1 Like
Ship: 03 Div: 105
Started by Renee. Last reply by ellen0502 Jan 27, 2014. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by Carrie (sh 14 Div 104 PIR 3/14) on January 25, 2014 at 9:46pm
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diannep We booked at the Navy Lodge under our name. Should we change it to his name?
We will have a problem getting our car on base?
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Comment by diannep on January 25, 2014 at 9:09pm
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Welcome to the new members!
Dittersmom: Hotels recommended by others on this site are the following:
Navy Lodge (1 mile to RTC...book in your SR's name)
Springhill Suites, Courtyard Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Residence Inn (4-5 miles from RTC....all close to Sarge's MeetandGreet held the night before PIR for you)
As far as transportation, you can use Sarge's shuttle service from/to the airports, to PIR ($3/pp each way). and around town if need be. That can get a little pricey though...you may want to reconsider renting a car since that is the most cost effective!
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Comment by EyeoftheTiger on January 25, 2014 at 7:59pm
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Thank you for sharing insights, shw92 and popeyesgirl. No call or letter back yet, so it's great to hear more about our training group. I sent a questionnaire and stamps, just to make it a little easier. In the middle column under the member photos are the links, including
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Comment by Momof5 (Ship 14 DIV 103) on January 25, 2014 at 7:39pm
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Add me to the list of phone calls! Ship 14, DIV 103. Sounds as though they're pulling together well and hanging tough. My son said they all together had decided not to use the urinals so they didn't have to clean them :). So happy to hear his voice and so relieved. Mine being a Fla boy loved the snow and said he wasn't cold, just blisters from breaking in the boots. So glad they're working together and getting this past them. My son did say some had received letters that were mailed priority, didn't think about that one, though his are on the way. Received form letter today too!
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Comment by shw92 (Ship 14, Div 103) on January 25, 2014 at 6:55pm
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We got a call from our SR early this morning as well! He sounded good, but he has a couple of worries and I can tell he is homesick. He says he's the Weapons PO, which sounds like a position he will really enjoy. So grateful to have a chance to hear his voice and pray for him on the phone! Thanks for all of the detailed updates on your phone calls ladies, I love all the extra info that we didn't have time for. popeyesgirl, I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like I go blank from the excitement of hearing from him! I'll be keeping a list handy from now on myself!
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Comment by FavoredLife on January 25, 2014 at 6:11pm
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New to all this. Just joined! Hello! Everything has happened just as I have read online. Received 'the box' with the clothes off his back. Just yesterday, I received the form letter with the division info and mailing address. At least now I can put the first letter in mail to him. I am soooo ready to hear his voice. Miss him, but am proud of him! Im at peace. Praying for all.
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Comment by km85ss on January 25, 2014 at 5:48pm
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Comment by Dittersmom on January 25, 2014 at 5:18pm
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Hello all,
I haven't gotten a letter yet, but my son called today. So, it is official from him that I belong in this group. SR's ship is 02 and Div 918. I was so excited to hear from him. I had just left church today and got a call. I looked at the incoming number and thought who is calling me from Illinois. Then it hit me. My son was getting the chance to call me. I was so excited. We talked for 35 minutes and then he hung up and called my husband at home. So all in all he got to talk for about 40 minutes. He sounded great, but tired. He said that his division is one that will perform for the graduation ceremony. Now I have to start planning where to stay and how to get there. Any suggestions from anyone on where to stay. I realize that we will not be there long and I don't want to have to rent a car. I would like to stay somewhere that I can just catch public transportation out to graduation. My SR is a nuke, so he is a grad and go.
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Comment by popeyesgirl on January 25, 2014 at 5:10pm
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What an exciting day - I have enjoyed reading about all the phone calls! blessed beyond measure (loved your detail!) I was surprised this morning myself when my SR called - I was still on cloud 9 just receiving his form letter yesterday and his box earlier in the week! Anyhow - it was great to hear his voice and he sounded awesome! I wish I had had a list of questions handy because I felt like I blanked from the excitement of his call! He said he is the Starboard Watch Section Leader and that 104 is 103's brother Division. I asked how he was doing folding clothes and he said - well I thought I was doing good - but apparently he needs some work in that department! He never had that down at home either! LOL He said he's on the top rack and that his back is sore - mentioned they are potentially getting new mattresses - I think someone was pulling his chain! : ) Said his feet hurt and that he has mole skin all over them -- and that they are marching about 6 miles a day. Wondering if he overestimated that? Sounds like a great group of SRs! Mailed off all the letters I've been stock piling today! Can't wait to hear from him again!
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