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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:
Events
**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:
**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 10/03/2014 TG 47 - 11 Divisions (305-314 and 947)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on October 3, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 91
Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2015
WELCOME to PIR 10/03/2014! 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
~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"
Discussion Forum
Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 313 and 314 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Belinda Oct 10, 2014. 108 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 309 and 310 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by lovingmom Sep 30, 2014. 45 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 305 and 306 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by J'sstepmom (Ship11/Div 305) Sep 26, 2014. 16 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 307 and 308 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by HollyPhx Sep 26, 2014. 26 Replies 9 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Sep 21, 2014. 6 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 12 (USS Triton) Divisions 311 and 312 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by navyprincessmom Sep 17, 2014. 22 Replies 2 Likes
My sr is sh 13 div314
Started by VICTOR'SMOM. Last reply by ellen0502 Sep 11, 2014. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 947
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ambermc Aug 20, 2014. 2 Replies 2 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by Dcmmom on September 25, 2014 at 10:36am
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Yellowtorpedo my son is 308
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Comment by Hill986 on September 25, 2014 at 9:34am
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CatMom509, Beautiful prayer! Thanks for sharing.
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Comment by klgils on September 25, 2014 at 9:01am
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CatMom, I hope you do not mind that I posted the prayer on the PIR 10/3/14 FB page. I know it will be a source of strength for all of us whose recruits are going through Battle Stations. Thank you so much for posting it again. God bless you.
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Comment by diannep on September 25, 2014 at 7:19am
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Good Morning! BattleStations for some divisions in this group (we can't say which ones on this public venue!) start tonight. There will be some very special calls coming in tomorrow afternoon after 2 pm Central!
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CatMom, this prayer is perfect! I love it. Thank you so much.
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Comment by CatMom509 on September 25, 2014 at 2:57am
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I printed this prayer out when my Sailor daughter was in Boot Camp last year for her Navy scrapbook. My copy had everything pertaining to my daughter being a she/her, but I changed it here for a male recruit. Here you go!
A Parent's Prayer fo a Navy Recruit
Father, in the coming days, I will need You,
but my Recruit will need You more!
Let him perform his tasks with a sense of duty,
not out of anger or vengance.
Let his reflexes be quick and his hands steady.
Let his head be clear and his eyes sharp.
Let his mind and body be strong and his spirit stronger.
Christ, please stand by my Recruit and watch his back
when he cannot.
Father, I love this Recruit of mine!
Take from ME what he needs and give me what he does not.
I will pace the nights, if it means he does get some sleep
I will deal with fatigue, if it means he will have energy.
I will carry his fear. if it means it gives him courage.
I will take his pain, if it means he is healthy and whole..
I will take his anger, if it means he is at peace.
Take my love and pride and let him feel it!
Let him know that I am with him every step of the way!
Please take from me what You can; I give it willingly
and with love. It is all I have besides my prayers.
Above all, please help my Recruit to achieve his goal
of becoming...
A United States Navy Sailor!!
This I ask on bended knee, that which
I cannot do without YOU!
AMEN~~
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yellowtorpedo,
If your boyfriend is not on the Access List, RTC asks that extra family and friends stay at the hotel and watch PIR on the LIvestream at the hotel (ask them where they are showing it) or on a laptop in the room. When you get back with your Sailor to the hotel, then that's when your boyfriend can join in on the celebration~~
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Belinda,
Yes, you are allowed to take those items to give to your new Sailor at the airport when they fly out to A school. Only mainly the electonics and some civies (comfy underwear) that can be put into their Navy issued backpack or stuffed into their seabag. If staying at Great Lakes for A school, they can bring items back to their barracks the evening of PIR.
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My son is in division 308. I am so looking forward to his graduation I am nothing but a bunch of emotions. I was wandering if my boyfriend will be able to get in the parking lot if he is not on the guest list. If anyone can answer that I would greatly appreciate it.
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No problem, BCR0095:.Just replied to your message.
Beth: Not sure he will actually phase up in time to wear the civies before he is done, but you can bring a few anyway just in case!
Blue candles are lit for those in the Navy during times they are going through tests (like BattleStations!), deployment, unusual situations, or just when you are thinking of them! A wonderful reminder of your SRs/Sailors!
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