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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).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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 05/31/2013 TG 29 - 10 Divisions (205-212, 811 and 929)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 05/31/2013. 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, IL
Members: 70
Latest Activity: May 31, 2016

WELCOME to PIR 05/31/2013! 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.

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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 05/31/2013 TG 29 - 10 Divisions (205-212, 811 and 929) to add comments!

Comment by Jana on June 25, 2013 at 7:51am: yes they are free I called probably 2 weeks ago and have not rec. the supplies yet I have used the USPS Priority flat rate box gets to them in a few days.

Comment by MomThatLovesHerSon on June 23, 2013 at 9:00pm: Do we get shipping supplies free?

Comment by ellen0502 on June 23, 2013 at 6:43pm: If you are talking about the one I just posted it is for shipping supplies from the USPS.

Comment by MomThatLovesHerSon on June 23, 2013 at 12:18pm: Someone, please educate me about the Military Care Packages.

Thanks.

Comment by GingerMom on June 4, 2013 at 8:19pm: ellen0502-Thank you!

Comment by ellen0502 on June 4, 2013 at 7:45pm: Here is the link to the USPS page about the Military Care Package Kit.

http://hdusps.esecurecare.net/cgi-bin/hdusps.cfg/php/enduser/std_ad...

Comment by GingerMom on June 4, 2013 at 7:08pm: Anyone have the post office number to call for the boxes? thought I saved it but can't find it!

Comment by mindshaper87 on June 4, 2013 at 11:29am: I have to ask...3 of the 5 of us that went to PIR came down with the flu...Did anyone else get Rickey Flu?? I sure hope my sailor doesn't get it down in Pensacola.

Comment by Momwhoisproud on June 4, 2013 at 10:47am: This poem was posted by CatMom509 in Christian Chat. Sums it up for Moms.

A MOTHER'S TEAR

"Why are you crying?" he asked his Mom. "Because I am a mother" she told him.

"I don't understand" he said. His Mom hugged him and said, "You never will"

Later, the little boy asked his father why mother cried for no reason. "All mothers cry for no reason" was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man still wondering why mothers cry.

So he finally asked God, "God, why do mothers cry so easily?"

God said,"You see son, when I made mothers, they had to be special.

I made their shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort.

I gave them an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from their children.

I gave them a hardiness that allows them to keep going on when everyone else gives up, and to take care of their families through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave them the sensitivity to love their children under all circumstances, even when their child has hurt them very badly.

This same sensitivity helps them to make a child's Boo-boo feel better, and helps them share a teenager's anxieties and fears.

I gave them a tear to shed, It's theirs exclusively to use whenever it is needed.

It is their only weakness.

It is a tear for mankind."

Poem written and copyrighted by An Unknown Author