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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

Events

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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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PIR 09/10/10

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The countdown begins for PIR September 10, 2010. Join us here!

Members: 126
Latest Activity: Dec 2, 2011

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Battlestations Schedule
Div 301 ~~09-01-10~~ Congratulations 301 Sailors!
Div 302 ~~09-01-10~~ Congratulations 302 Sailors!
Div 303 ~~09-06-10~~ Congratulations 303 Sailors!
Div 304 ~~09-06-10~~ Congratulations 304 Sailors!
Div 305 ~~09-07-10~~ Congratulations 305 Sailors!
Div 306 ~~09-07-10~~ Congratulations 306 Sailors!
Div 307 ~~09-08-10~~ Congratulations 307 Sailors!
Div 308 ~~09-08-10~~ Congratulations 308 Sailors!
Div 819 ~~09-08-10~~ Congratulations 819 Sailors!
Div 943 ~~09-06-10~~ Congratulations 943 Sailors!

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Comment by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy on July 21, 2010 at 7:53pm: Okay ladies, I just created an "event" for this PIR for your Meet & Greet on Thurs 9/9/10 at the Ramada Inn. If you look on left side of any page, scroll down to the bottom and see all the events. Since yours is in September, you'll need to click on "view all" and then it brings it up in a slightly different fashion, but still by date. Please RSVP with number of people by 8/30/10. I will ask Michellep to please send a message to all members of this group telling them to go to the event and rsvp.

Comment by michellep-div303-PIR09-10-10 on July 21, 2010 at 7:52pm: For the record, I put 1234 Sailor Drive because I wasn't sure about the numbers when posting. The actual address is 3415 Sailor Drive. Although I do wonder if I got that right. It sounds almost silly. ANd like my son has said for the last year, his recruiter DOES mumble. Does anyone from Ship 9 Div 303 with the form letter have the address handy?

Comment by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy on July 21, 2010 at 7:49pm: Kim - here's the zip code 60088 They all have the same zip, but the + 4 number may be different, but that's not required.

SR stands for Seaman Recruit - so you don't need to write the word "Recruit". Lase name first, then first name - and if it's a common name, use middle initial after first name!

Comment by michellep-div303-PIR09-10-10 on July 21, 2010 at 7:47pm: I believe Maureen volunteered to coordinate the M&G.

Yes, Kim. I've been mailing since Monday. Incorrectly, of course, but mailing nonetheless.

Comment by Kim~Ship 9 Div 301~PIR 9/10 on July 21, 2010 at 7:44pm: Oh wow! I can get my letters in the mail tomorrow, even before I get "the letter"!

Comment by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy on July 21, 2010 at 7:35pm: Geez, I'm trying to remember if we got a volunteer on this group or if it was on the 9-2 group to be the chairperson for the Meet & Greet. Sorry, I have CRS (Can't Remember Stuff - although another word fits nicely too!). Is there a maureen in this group? I truly can't remember now!! I have officially lost it ladies, I am helping out on all 8 PIR groups and they tend to get smeared in my mind.

The Ramada just needs one person to be the contact person for this site, that person is also in charge of posting an event on the right side of this website (visable from any page). They occassionally post reminders here on the groups page to sign up for the M&G on the 'event' posting. They like a head count a week before PIR - and don't worry, they know their are others who will come who have never heard of N4M before, but they see it in the flyer that comes with the form letter. BTW - that form letter is the ONLY official letter you will receive the entire time they are in bc. Unless of course your recruit wins an award (like the ones I posted earlier for PIR 7/23), if so - then you are personally invited to sit in the VIP section at graduation!

Yes, your form letter will have the names of the people your recruit wants to invite. If you write and ask for others to be listed (or change a name), it's up to your recruit to do it and only if he/she wants to do that. This needs to be done prior to 2 weeks before PIR (that's when they submit all changes). Remember.... it takes 7-8 days for the recruits to receive mail - no matter how close you live to Great Lakes! We get their mail by Wed or Thurs each week - occassionally on a Friday. So write to them SOON if you want to ask them to update their four person list (kids 12 and under do not need to be listed and they do not count as one of the four people).

Comment by michellep-div303-PIR09-10-10 on July 21, 2010 at 7:28pm: Not sure why I can't find this but I can't. Can someone confirm with me the way to address letters?

SR RECRUIT XXXX, GREGORY
RTC
1234 SAILOR DRIVE
SHIP 9 DIV 303
GREAT LAKES IL XXXXX-XXXX

Is that right? Because I think I left off the RTC on the first few lettters I sent on Monday.

Comment by michellep-div303-PIR09-10-10 on July 21, 2010 at 7:25pm: Cyndi, we are planning to do the M&G at Ramada and I am thinking or staying there but nothing is for sure.

Comment by Deborah (CTT son) on July 21, 2010 at 7:01pm: My step daughter arrived on the 14th as well - Michelle and I are both in California and I got the box a day ahead of her so perhaps she'll get the form letter before me (fair is fair) LOL!

Comment by michellep-div303-PIR09-10-10 on July 21, 2010 at 6:58pm: I dont have a form letter yet, Kim, but that is what I read, too. Not only on here but on one of the actual military sites. It is up to the recruits who they put on the list.