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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.

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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

...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 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 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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Comment by Wendy/Chris'Mom on March 5, 2013 at 11:16am: Jazzy's Mom - My heart goes out to you. We have 2 German Shepard/Black Lab mixes. I'm thinking his recovery and your peace of mind would be better if you were with him.

Comment by Jazzy's Mom on March 5, 2013 at 11:09am: OKAY...My curiosity got the better of me and so I went over to FB and joined the 03/15/2013 PIR group. There are several people from here over there, and a lot that never heard of n4m. What I don't understand is the redunacy of information. Why not just refer people to here? It almost looks like someone is copying and pasting all the information from this site to that groups documents. I'm not a big FBer but I'm trying lol.

Comment by Jazzy's Mom on March 5, 2013 at 10:30am: Here is our sick baby. The one in my profile picture is Major.

Comment by Jazzy's Mom on March 5, 2013 at 10:16am: diannep - we are checking our options at this point on where he will stay. We also have another dog named Major who is part Pointer, part ??? We already made arrangements for them to stay at their favorite doggie daycare (okay my husband is obsessed with our dogs...what can I say lol) but now we need to talk to them to see what their policies are. Unfortunately both dogs are quite large and it would be a major imposition for them to stay with most of our friends who live in tiny places with no yards (apartments and condos) and my grown kids live too far away. My husband thought about talking to the surgeon to see if he felt the surgery could wait until we got back from PIR instead. Atticus and hubby are almost tied at the hips so this will be hard on both of them, whereas Major is easy going and just goes with the flow.

Comment by diannep on March 5, 2013 at 10:12am: Thanks, Julie! Ladies, Julie just went through PIR this past Friday and posted this to help you all.

Comment by julie on March 5, 2013 at 10:08am: Comment by julie 8 hours ago Delete Comment

all info was so on the money!!!!!!!!!!! I knew where to go, when to go, how things worked . i knew to have him back early, I also learned and listented to what was said about after 2 months of intense training my sailor would be exausted, I saw sailors being dragged from one place to another, my son said his friends parents had plans to go here, and to go there, and all he wanted to do was rest in the hotel with his family and watch tv, eat pizza and nap Moms, please remember, your babies are so tired, they have been so cut off, let them make the plans, even if there is no plan at all. I got so much pleasure watching my sailor, my baby sleep oh so peacefully !!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Navy for Moms!! could not have made it without you!!!!!!!! Love you guys

Comment by diannep on March 5, 2013 at 9:41am: Oh, Jazzy, so sorry. Isn't that the way it works...good news and bad news...so glad that the dr feels like he has a chance with the surgery...love his name! A very "manly" name! Prayers for him that he will get some additional time in his life. Will he have to stay in the clinic while you are gone or will someone be able to look after him in your home?

Good Morning All!

Comment by Jazzy's Mom on March 5, 2013 at 9:28am: Good news! I was able to print my car pass!

Bad news....we found out yesterday our beloved german shepard, Atticus, has cancer and will have surgery three days before we leave for PIR.

Comment by Wendy/Chris'Mom on March 4, 2013 at 8:08pm: I think everyone's resting up for all our excitement next week. I don't know about you gals but I won't be getting a lot of sleep next week!

Comment by Christi/Zach's mom on March 4, 2013 at 6:32pm: I understand how you feel dangermrs. We leave in eight days to start our trip north. I've already started packing a bag and putting stuff in it every day!