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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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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Centennial PIR Group (07/01/11)

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For those with Sailors who participated in the Recruit Training Command Centennial PIR on July 1, 2011.

Members: 74
Latest Activity: Jun 29, 2012

Congratulations new Sailors! We are so very proud of you.

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Comment by TL3MOM &1's a Sailor-Ship2Div932 on May 25, 2011 at 10:23pm: Jess...we can cry on each other's shoulder in the airport :(

Comment by JessicaB-Sailor's Sweetheart<3 on May 25, 2011 at 10:18pm: Yeah TL3, we seem to be in the same boat here (no navy pun intended) maybe we will end up seeing each other at the airport.

Comment by TL3MOM &1's a Sailor-Ship2Div932 on May 25, 2011 at 10:15pm: So glad to hear that more letters are being received. It is a fantastic feeling! Only disappointment is that since she is a Nuke...she too will be leaving shortly after graduation.

On a positive note...she did get promoted to Starboard Watch Section Leader...whatever that means...lol She says she's the head marcher for 1/2 the division - she gets to yell out calls & lead.

Oh and ladies...Write, Write, Write!! She said thank you for writing that it was better than Christmas!!

Comment by BluAnjel NoLongerNavyMom on May 25, 2011 at 8:05pm: @Connie - haha - my mailperson is lucky that I'm not home when they come by!!

@katiesmom, too funny. apparently my dtr is learning how to do 10-count situps... eeek!! Off to write some more! Thanks again Craig for your knowledge and for sharing it with all us "newbies"

Comment by navymomarmybrat on May 25, 2011 at 7:58pm: Actually if your son or daughter has a college degree then they will go in at an E-3 or 0-3. Also, if they were in the Jr Rotc in HS or ROTC they also get some rank.

Comment by JessicaB-Sailor's Sweetheart<3 on May 25, 2011 at 7:44pm: **********DIVISION 211! Calls are coming out! a girl on the RTC facebook page got one about an hour ago. Keep your phones on!*********

Comment by Craig on May 25, 2011 at 7:29pm: Yes, they can can be advanced. If their RDC think they are doing an outstanding job, then they will have them promoted. Usually it's for those in leadership roles, taking harder jobs, like being a RPOC, AROC, Master-at-Arms, Starboard or Portwatch section leaders. Even if your in a leadership role, only a few get it.

If your recruit completed their DEP handbook and passed the test in boot camp, they can also be promoted too...

Comment by mominva on May 25, 2011 at 7:13pm: So, is an SR able to change rate/rank based on performance during boot camp?

Comment by Craig on May 25, 2011 at 7:07pm: esther - You are correct about the rate. They are all E1's while they are in boot camp.

When you join the Navy, you can sign up (enlist) and can be E1 thru E6. However, mostly (like 99%) enter as E1 thru E3's. I had a depper on my website sign up as an E5, he won't actually get promoted until he reaches his 1st permanent duty station (about 4 months after boot camp).

Deppers that are E1 or E2's can get advanced to next higher rate by having training in JRTOC, Sea Cadet, Civil Air Partrol, College, Scouting, Sea Scouts, Young Marines, Vocational School, Military Academy, or DEP referrals. That the easy way to get advancement.

In the Navy we have rank, but it is only for officers. Enlisted sailors make "rate". To civilians, rank and rate mean the same thing, but in the Navy the proper word is rate.

Comment by CTmomof3 on May 25, 2011 at 7:05pm: Craig, since you seem to have knowledge. I heard that PIR is not on the BC base it's on the A school base because they have a larger area. Can you find out exactly where it will be in relation to the normal venue?