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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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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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Alumni of PIR 08/05/2011

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TG 38 - 10 DIVISIONS (243-250, 817 & 938)

For those that have loved ones graduating Friday, August 5th, 2011

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Latest Activity: Jun 9, 2012

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Comment by diannep on July 6, 2011 at 7:14pm: creative: Will be praying for your daughter...I'm so sorry!

Comment by clarkedu (MM Nuke Prototype) on July 6, 2011 at 7:06pm: Bobbie, IT'S YOUR TURN!!! Hoping, hoping, hoping!!!

Comment by onboardMOM on July 6, 2011 at 7:05pm: ColleenJacksGirl (Ship07Div 245)

Try and not fret over this missed call too much. I know exactly how you feel. I have had my cell glued to me for 4 wks. Last Tues was my call and I just left cell on desk at work to go to bathroom thinking it was dinner time and SR would call after dinner. Oh how wrong was I......... missed call and was miserable with emotion for the next several days. Hang in there! You will get through this episode and eventually be able to laugh about it!

Comment by bobbie (ht mom) on July 6, 2011 at 6:58pm: oh man sure hoping for one too lol diff divisions calling

Comment by Maine Mom on July 6, 2011 at 6:51pm: Yeah!!!! Got my first call too-he sounds sooo good!!!

Comment by clarkedu (MM Nuke Prototype) on July 6, 2011 at 6:49pm: Creative, you know that I will continue to be thinking of you and your daughter and am sincerely hoping for all the best.

Comment by Nan(Ship 9 Div 247) on July 6, 2011 at 6:45pm: Just got my first long call - get ready 247!

Comment by bobbie (ht mom) on July 6, 2011 at 6:29pm: well said ochaos well said

Comment by bobbie (ht mom) on July 6, 2011 at 6:27pm: you are so right creative she has come this far she can do this have faith i do for yall)

Comment by ochaos on July 6, 2011 at 6:25pm: Remember that this journey is just as much about you being in training as it is for our recruits. Things change, schedules change, they can not always tell you everything, there will be times when you do not hear from them for a while, there will be ups and downs and everything in between, they will see people drop, leave the service, rollback and finish their training. Focus on today and learn not to worry about tomorrow. Always be encouraging and uplifting even when your heart is breaking, they do not need to be worrying about us and how we are dealing with things. This journey is a difficult one for the ones at home and not knowing what is going on and hard to grasp when you are still so new to it, relax and breathe and it will get better.

Live your life as normal as possible, come to this site for support but do not stress over phone calls, letters and how they are doing. Phone calls get missed or not made, it is not the end of the world even though it may feel like it at that moment. We have wonderful recruits and who are on a new journey in their life and we need to be okay with the not knowing what is going on and not hearing from them as this may happen from time to time during their time in the Navy, the sooner you are okay with this the better for them as they do not need to know that we are stressing or worried about them.

This is the job that they have chosen and some of us have jobs that do not allow us to have phone calls at work, the same holds true for them, they will call when they can and after BC it does get better but there may be times when it gets worse. We are so used to knowing everything about what they are doing and having instant contact, that it can be hard to break that habit but it will get better, hang in there and before you know it you will be at PIR.

If you are sad, lonely, missing them, angry or many other emotions come here where we know how you feel and we can lift you up.