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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.

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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ALUMNI OF PIR 04/17/2015 TG 23 - 9 Divisions (145-152, and 923)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 04/17/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 46
Latest Activity: Jan 1, 2016

WELCOME to PIR 04/17/2015!

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N4M'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 04/17/2015 TG 23 - 9 Divisions (145-152, and 923) to add comments!

Comment by CatMom509 on March 20, 2015 at 3:45am: AOGirlfriend825,

According to diannep, PIR 04/27/2015 will be the first April PIR where they are changing to dress whites.

All the SRs still need to be fitted for both sets of dress uniforms to have with them during their Navy career~~

However, you will learn that you have to be "Navy Flexible" because stuff changes with the Navy all the time~~ :)

Comment by CatMom509 on March 20, 2015 at 3:40am: Hi diannep!!

Comment by AOWife825 on March 19, 2015 at 8:33pm: I'm confused on the dress white/blues because on her it says they are wearing blues, but in my SR. and few others it says they just got fitted for their dress whites and will be wearing white because the date was changed to APRIL for uniform change. Any clarification

Comment by amy on March 19, 2015 at 7:26pm: Thanks Catmom that was perfect timing. I needed to hear that today.

Comment by diannep on March 19, 2015 at 6:47pm: Hi CatMom!

Comment by CatMom509 on March 19, 2015 at 4:58pm: Hello All!

     "So do not throw away your confidence;

      it will be richly rewarded. You need to

      persevere so that when you have done

      the will of God, you will receive what

      He has promised."

                                     Hebrews 10:35-36

Comment by diannep on March 19, 2015 at 8:35am: Good Morning All !

Comment by CatMom509 on March 18, 2015 at 3:40pm: Good Day!!

      "You are worthy, O Lord our God,

       to receive glory and honor and power.

       For You created all things."

                                         Revelation 4:11

Comment by diannep on March 18, 2015 at 10:26am: Just a suggestion re: letters to your SRs. When my son was there, I contacted a couple of his fav high school teachers who had been mentors to him after his dad died. Mind you, he had been out of high school for 5 yrs by then, even had his A.S. degree from college when entering the Navy, but I knew these ladies had such an impact on his life and we had stayed in touch. I asked if they would write him (one had a son in the Army so understood military!) and they did. He was quite touched by that. So be sure to ask family members, friends, mentors, anyone who had an impact on your SR's life to consider writing. Bootcamp is a challenging time for them, but the hardest part is being cut off from family/friends on a daily basis and missing everything that was normal to them. To get letters from people who are part of their "normal" means the world to them!

Comment by CatMom509 on March 18, 2015 at 3:50am: Everyone,

I've just posted my "PERTINENT PIR TIPS" with all sorts of info that will help you for your own upcoming PIR! Please check it out in the Discussion Forum~~