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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).

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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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ALUMNI OF PIR 03/15/2013 TG 18 - 9 Divisions (113-120 and 918)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 03/15/2013. 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,Illnois
Members: 67
Latest Activity: May 14, 2013

WELCOME to PIR 03/15/2013! 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 03/15/2013 TG 18 - 9 Divisions (113-120 and 918) to add comments!

Comment by MSmom on January 23, 2013 at 1:42pm: @gb. As to your question about spending time with your sailor after pir. If your sailor is going to A school anywhere besides great lakes you will have Friday afternoon with them. They will have to go back to rtc at night. They will be bussed to the airport around midnight. You can go to the airport and visit with them on Saturday morning.
If your sailor is staying in great lakes you will have a few minutes after pir to spend with them. Then they will be bussed over to the other base where they will be checked in. This takes between three and four hours. Then you will be able to pick them up and spend the rest of Friday with them until they have to report back to the barracks that night. You will also be able to spend Saturday and Sunday with them. They have to be back on base at night and if they have watch. Hope this helps.

Comment by MSmom on January 23, 2013 at 1:36pm: Hi. I am also one of the veteran moms on this site. My son graduated from boot camp last January. He is currently deployed. I look forward to helping you on this journey. Welcome to the navy family.

Comment by GB on January 23, 2013 at 1:03pm: Hello everyone! I actually got my "box" of his stuff returned and I got my letter yesterday. I am from Pittsburgh PA. My son will be graduting on the 15 of March. I am just wondering about the information for Gradution... do people just go up for one day and then go home or after they graduate do you get to spend time with your son/daughter and if so - how long.

Comment by Trey's Mom 45 on January 23, 2013 at 12:52pm: I finally received the letter, my SR has a PIR of 3/15. YAY!!! I'm so excited!!! I'm looking forward to connecting with everyone, maybe our SRs have met or know each other or may even be in the same division or ship.

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on January 23, 2013 at 11:11am: Good Morning Ladies! Welcome! I'm Betsy and another "veteran" who also helps out on here. My sailor is my youngest son (out of 5 children). He enlisted a few months out of graduation from high school and will now be 21 in 3 weeks. He is a CTT who is currently deployed on an aircraft carrier. We also have a future son in law who just finished his 5 years in the Navy as an ET in Hawaii, so hopefully I can answer some questions that you may have as well. Good to see you all on here and fire away with your questions or comments.

Comment by Jazzy's Mom on January 23, 2013 at 10:51am: Hi everyone. I haven't received the official form letter yet, but I'm guessing my SR's PIR will be 03/15 since she arrived at BC on the 16th. I'm hoping she didn't have a brain bubble and decided to send the letter to my ex at the last minute. The whole family told her to send it to me because I would make sure everyone received the "correct" information.

Maybe when I get home from work today I'll have a surprise in the mail...keeping
fingers crossed....

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on January 23, 2013 at 9:58am: Good morning, I bet you guys are so glad to finally see this group start. Now the countdown can really begin :)

Comment by diannep on January 23, 2013 at 9:13am: Good idea to stay on this site so you can get info....until you get confirmation by form letter. Welcome to the group!

Comment by MaryK on January 23, 2013 at 8:34am: Hi- my son left on 1/16- I am not sure if this will be his PIR date- I haven't gotten the form letter yet either. Looking forward to sharing this experience with other Moms.

Comment by kellismom on January 23, 2013 at 4:51am: Yes! Thankyou for starting the PIR group(s). I look forward to sharing info and hopefully meeting some of you at PIR. Although, I'm still guessing the date since the form ltr hasn't arrived to confirm it yet.