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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.

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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

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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:

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**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).

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**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 10/18/2013 TG 49 - 11 Divisions (389-398 and 949)

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This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 10/18/2013. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their Navy journey!

Location: Great lakes, IL
Members: 99
Latest Activity: Oct 13, 2014

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forN4M's Community Guidelines and OPSEC

~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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Comment by diannep on October 19, 2013 at 10:12am: alsmom: Yep, I think grandpas are always right! :-) Glad the shuttle worked out for you. Congrats to your new sailor!

Good Morning All !

Comment by alsmom on October 19, 2013 at 10:02am: Home now. The guy who takes care of the Sailors at Midway airport also took good care of the parents. He was super! Forgot his name but he has a beard.
We got there just before the Sailors did at 1am.

Comment by CatMom509 on October 19, 2013 at 1:37am: We got to the airport at 2:00 am when my Sailor daughter left for Pensacola in March~~

Comment by CatMom509 on October 19, 2013 at 1:35am: miafinesse,

Great!! You have alot of time to wander the airport and sit and chat in any open seating areas and eat and shop!!!

Comment by CatMom509 on October 19, 2013 at 1:34am: I see by the time that the first buses of Sailor will be leaving for the airports now! Go directly to the airport to meet them. You might be following the wrong bus if you go to RTC!!

Comment by CatMom509 on October 19, 2013 at 1:32am: Ladies,

It is best to be at either airport by 3:00 am - 4:00 am to make sure you can be with your Sailor's departure group when they go to obtain their boarding passes. The families follow the group, then you will obtain your Gate Passes to go with your Sailor through the security checkpoint. Everyone in your group must have a driver's license, state Id, school picture id, birth certificate, or social security card--same as when you had to get into PIR. Wear comfy clothes that you don't mind sitting on the floor on in case there are no seats left up there by the ticket counter area.

If you miss their group because you arrive later, go to the ticket counter to have your Sailor paged. I'm not sure if they allow you to go through security without your Sailor with you or how easy that will be. Plus you still have their cell phone, so you hope your Sailor will hear the page.

Comment by alsmom on October 18, 2013 at 11:24pm: Grandpa was right - the shuttle was the way to go. Bypassed all the traffic and got us right up to the gate. Helped that he picked up the tab of course.

Comment by miafinesseship09div394 on October 18, 2013 at 8:44pm: My sailor leaves tonight at 12 but he will be flying out at 12 noon tomorrow

Comment by alsmom on October 18, 2013 at 7:58pm: I removed one of my posts about flights. Wasn't sure if we should give out too much info on here for security reasons.