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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!

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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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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 12/21/2012 TG 6 - 11 Divisions (031-038, 803 & 904 -905)

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This Group is for those with sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 12/21/2012.

A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Your current Group "veteran members" are:

diannep

LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons

ellen0502

♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW

Betsy, son on Stennis carrier

Craig

sjtina

Cor

Information PAGES LINK for PIR 12/21/2012

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 110
Latest Activity: May 31, 2022

WELCOME TO PIR 12/21/2012! 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.

CLICK ME 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 your 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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You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 12/21/2012 TG 6 - 11 Divisions (031-038, 803 & 904 -905) to add comments!

Comment by ryannlivsmom on November 1, 2012 at 10:24am: Good morning, so thankful for this site :) Just found out that the PIR is 12/21. There is so much more information on here then I received from the recruiter..thank you again

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on November 1, 2012 at 10:23am: bclmomct -

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on November 1, 2012 at 10:21am: Thank you for calling PAO about Christmas. As we get closer hopefully RTC will release something with "specifics" publicly on their FB pages.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on November 1, 2012 at 10:20am: Good Morning!

Comment by Felicia TEXASNAVYMOM on November 1, 2012 at 9:43am: Hang in there Marysuemcc. We are all pulling for all those effected by hurricane Sandy. Prayers for you! I am thrilled you finally got your letter! Just remember the date on it is wrong. PIR is December 21. :o)

Comment by marysuemcc on November 1, 2012 at 9:31am: FINALLY received my letter yesterday ! Even tho it had the date of 12/20 on it for PIR . . We still have no power here (nj) and I have had no school all week - or mail until yesterday - so I was THRILLED to finally get letter ! I just need power back so I can get in computer and not try to do all this from PHONE !

Comment by RanesMom(Ship02Div905) on November 1, 2012 at 9:15am: Would like to say thank you and show my appreciation for the efforts put into this group! ONLY 50 MORE DAYS until I see my sweet son!!

Comment by diannep on November 1, 2012 at 8:32am: Good Morning Ladies. I'm another N4Moms veteran joining here to help! Been helping on this site now since early 2010. Welcome to the group and please post any and all questions you have. Info in PAGES will be posted soon on this page for you....a little at a time so as not to overwhelm! But important!

Enjoy the bootcamp experience....a rollercoaster ride of emotional ups and downs, culminating in a wonderful experience at PIR!

Comment by Felicia TEXASNAVYMOM on November 1, 2012 at 8:26am: To those asking about Christmas. I wrote to the RTC training command before bootcamp. I was told there would NOT be a break for your Sailor between Bootcamp and A school. They basically have the weekend Liberty after graduation and then they all are headed to their A schools. That was what I was told when I asked if they would have a break after bootcamp.

Comment by ellen0502 on November 1, 2012 at 1:51am: A RMPO (recruit mail petty officer) must be trained for each division to handle the mail before receiving and sending. This process can take up to two weeks after they move to their ship to start training (approx the third week after they arrive).

Once the RMPO is trained their first mail call is generally on the second Sunday after training starts. The SRs are at first able to write only on Sundays (this is a general rule of thumb) and it usually is the same day as the first mail call. Your SRs may be able to, or be given extra writing privileges as training progresses.

Some RDCs allow pictures some don't, we recommend scanning and printing the pictures on a regular piece of paper. You can get more than one photo per page and it doesn't draw attention to the envelope. It also keeps the small storage space they have from filling up.

A good rule to follow for mailing things to your SR, if it looks and feels like a letter, it probably is a letter, if it looks like a letter and feels like a Q-Tip it probably includes a Q-Tip (some RDCs allow some don't). Keep what you mail feeling and looking like a letter, no overly stuffed envelopes, no "hard" envelopes, no squishy envelopes etc. Your SR will let you know if you are allowed to send them something extra.

You can also send greeting cards, but for your SRs sake, nothing that plays music (those batteries last forever and so can IT), absolutely no glitter or confetti (that stuff goes everywhere and your SR will have to clean up every speck), watch the colored envelopes (a bright pink envelope to your male sailor may just be the excuse the RDC is looking for). No stickers on the outside, no hearts, no Xs and Os etc.

If you question whether to send it or not don't send it. If you question it, so will the RDCs. You can eventually send them a manilla envelope to send home some of what they have received, just make sure you put enough postage on it.