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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

...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).

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**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**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 diannep on March 1, 2013 at 8:14pm: BeachBunny: We hear alot about Giordano's:

http://giordanos.com/our-locations/

Comment by Red Rover on March 1, 2013 at 8:10pm: Christi you are one ambitious Momma, You inspired me to go to Joannes and buy Navy fleece. I hope I can keep it away from my Daughter long enough to use it at PIR then she can have it. We will have matching blankies. I am getting so excited. Men just dont get it. Cant wait to see all the ladies projects.

Comment by BeachBunny on March 1, 2013 at 6:54pm: Anyone know of a great deep dish pizza place by GL... love to taste some while in the area..it's been years since I had Chicago deep dish pizza...:)) yummmo

Comment by BeachBunny on March 1, 2013 at 6:52pm: It's so cool to read the PIR group the week before us...they are getting their "I'm a sailor" calls....Yea......that will be us soon enough!!

Comment by diannep on March 1, 2013 at 4:43pm: Glad they were able to help you figure it out! Without telling you anything! :-)

Comment by diannep on March 1, 2013 at 4:16pm: BeachBunny: No, you cannot give your "extra" space to another family. RTC prohibits that now. There are no "tickets" anyway...they go by the names on the guest list (i.e., form letter list that can be updated a week or so before PIR). Sorry! That was nice of you to offer!

lulu: That is possibly for pictures, but no way to know for sure. I was not on my son's account so didn't see his stubs. I would tell you to call the Photo Lab to see if they have a record of that amount being paid, but not sure they are allowed to tell you anything. If you want to try, here's the number:

847 578-6205

Comment by diannep on March 1, 2013 at 4:12pm: Yep! You write in the gate pass info.

Wonderful, Christi!

Comment by Christi/Zach's mom on March 1, 2013 at 3:31pm: I know! my house is never going to get cleaned!

Comment by BeachBunny on March 1, 2013 at 3:26pm: Christi/Zach's mom: What a score for you!!! I see many new Navy projects in the future for you..:))

Comment by Christi/Zach's mom on March 1, 2013 at 3:12pm: I just had my blessing for the day. I ordered a flag font from someone on Etsy for my embroidery machine. I opened it up this morning and it looks great but it's really big. I emailed the lady and asked her if she could do the font in a more narrow format so that I could use it on a T-shirt. I told her that I was using it for my son's Navy graduation. She sent me back the word NAVY already formatted to fit my machine and included five or six other Navy related embroidery designs for free!!