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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.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 12/04/2015 TG 04- 11 Divisions (027-034, 802-803 and 904)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 12/04/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 76
Latest Activity: Dec 1, 2016

WELCOME to PIR 12/04/2015! 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 SailorMom:) on October 24, 2015 at 10:21pm: I received a call from my son today. Gosh it was so good to hear his voice. He was in really good spirits and tells us he is doing really good. I had to share the conversation with the family but i am so grateful to have heard his voice and know he is ok.

Comment by diannep on October 24, 2015 at 7:15pm: Teddiboo: That's great! Now pray that your SR has no setbacks in his PIR date....like my son did....so I had to pay the $150 x 2 change fee! UGH! Sure wish I had known about Southwest Airlines then....that no change fee clause would have come in handy!

Glad you found such a great deal though!

Comment by CatMom509 on October 24, 2015 at 6:32pm: Hi Friends!

     "The Lord is near to all who call on Him,

       to all who call on Him in truth."

                                            Psalm 145:18

Comment by bear123 on October 24, 2015 at 4:55pm: Good afternoon everyone! Just booked the flight and Hotel room. Got the plane tickets for $87 through Spirit airlines . We are from west Texas so we will have to make a drive to Dallas Texas . Also got our car rental through them for a great price ! Hope everyone is doing good and hope you all have heard from your SR , I'm still waiting on the personal letter and phone call. Blessings :)

Comment by diannep on October 24, 2015 at 2:17pm: Huntersmom: The challenge coins are purchased at:

www.pirgifts.com

Get your SR's ship name at Bootcamp. Just a nice gesture and memory for your new sailor's time at Bootcamp. The baskets for auction, centerpieces, etc are for Sarge's MeetandGreet. Purely voluntary for everyone...as he puts this on for all family members/friends of the graduating sailors....it is a way for him to make some money to help reimburse him each week for the money he and his wife put out to supply your dinner (all free to you, of course). Please do not feel like you have to participate in this. If you would like to donate cash, he will have a box there. If you would like to just attend and enjoy, that is fine too!

Comment by diannep on October 24, 2015 at 2:13pm: mazur: If you are sure you don't want to rent a car (usually the most economical thing you can do....they have some good rates)...you can contact Sarge 847 212 0246. He has a shuttle rate to/from the airports. Most of the hotels do not have their own shuttles but there are area shuttles. But consider the car rental.

Comment by SailorMom:) on October 24, 2015 at 10:45am: Cocomami i just looked for you and if you are leaving from Atlanta to O'Hare you will get a great deal I just saw tickets as low as 71 to $80 round trip from spirit and Frontier departing the day before graduation December 3rd and returning the day after graduation December 5th check it out and good luck

Comment by SailorMom:) on October 24, 2015 at 10:40am: Hi cocomami i hope you are also able to get a great deal. The airline i booked is called frontier. They do charge baggage fee but for $98 roundtrip non stop i couldnt let that pass and i can save the money for that from here to there. Check and see if they travel from GA. I am ariving at OHare airport as from the information i have read here its the closest to the Great Lakes. Good luck!!

Comment by mazur4navy on October 24, 2015 at 10:31am: We received our form letter on Monday Oct.19 then got a personal letter on Thursday, Oct.22. Does anyone know if any of the airlines provide shuttle service to the hotels near the naval base?

Comment by Huntersmom on October 24, 2015 at 9:40am: This is my first rodeo being a Navy mom. I want to know more about challenge coins, and the types of things that are being done to welcome my SR for PIR. I read a little about door decor, ribbons, table centerpieces. Can someone explain this to me? Thanks