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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:

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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).

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**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.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 11/20/2015 TG 02 9 Divisions (011-018, and 902)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 11/20/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 50
Latest Activity: Dec 1, 2016

WELCOME to PIR 11/20/2015! 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.

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N4M'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 Chasesmom on October 2, 2015 at 4:50pm: Hi Zkids's mom. My son will also be headed to Pensacola as an AM.

Comment by SeasonedMom on October 2, 2015 at 4:41pm: Flight is booked. We are also booked at the Residence Inn. We needed a 2 bedroom so that our daughter can join us. Zkid's mom, my son will be heading to Pensacola as well. My in-laws live about 5 hours from there, so hopefully they will see him on occasion.

Comment by ellen0502 on October 2, 2015 at 3:40pm: Nicole, The form letter can take 1-3 weeks to be received. Hang tight for a little longer, your recruit may surprise you!

Comment by Zkid'smom on October 2, 2015 at 3:01pm: Hi everyone! I just joined today and already feel a lot better! I got the form letter yesterday. My son is AV and will be going to A School in Pensacola. Is anyone else's sailor going there as well?

Comment by SeasonedMom on October 2, 2015 at 2:32pm: Thanks Diane...Molly is an 11 year old Golden, and is already sending her buddy a nice letter detailing all of the naughty things she has done since he left. I wish we were close enough to drive, it would be awesome to see his face, and Molly's, when they reunited. Hoping Skype or Facetime will help later on.

Thanks for the hotel info as well!

Comment by diannep on October 2, 2015 at 1:05pm: SeasonedMom: Don't forget to send him a letter from his dog, complete with inked paw print! They love that!

For those who are driving to PIR, consider taking your sailor's dog with you ! There are pet-friendly hotels. Residence Inn is one....and they take larger dogs....I saw a golden retriever when we were there. Navy Lodge is also pet friendly, I believe.

On flights, consider Southwest Airlines. Into either Milwaukee WI or Chicago-Midway.....Milwaukee is a shorter drive by about 20-30 min because of traffic in Chicago but not Milwaukee. Southwest charges no change fee, so if your SR is delayed, no problem (just pay difference in fare, which could actually be less). 2 bags check for free and they include a discount rental car code. Suggested hotels by others on this site are:

Navy Lodge (book in your SR's name if you don't have military ID), mile or so from RTC. Residence Inn, Springhill Suites, Courtyard, Holiday Inn Express....these last 4 are 4-5 miles from base, and close to the MeetandGreet held for you the night before PIR.

Comment by SeasonedMom on October 2, 2015 at 12:26pm: I love that he still has his silly sense of humor. He added our dog to the list of intended guests! I know that both he and the dog would love to see one another at graduation; she got so excited when the box came, smelling his clothes. I'm thinking he misses her most of all, lol!

Comment by SeasonedMom on October 2, 2015 at 12:14pm: Just received our letter, and we are getting ready to book our hotel and flights!

Comment by diannep on October 2, 2015 at 9:38am: Good Morning All ! To add on to what FTLW said, they cannot return to RTC with anything either. You can give them personal items when you meet them at the airport. But, yes, you can give them a gift in PIR Hall and then hold it for them as you leave.

Comment by TXSnowWhite on October 2, 2015 at 6:58am: I kind of figured she wouldn't be able to keep the gift with her right then and there, just wanted to have something to say hey congrats, we love you. I know I'll probably have to carry it and bring it back home with us.