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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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:

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).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**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 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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Comment by deniseMatt'smom on March 15, 2013 at 9:51pm: Isn't it funny how quickly bootcamp has become a crazy memory!!! I'm so happy that all of your sailors are doing so good, with bigger and better things yet to come!!! My sailor is a Seabee and is in Gulfport MS, he loves just about everything about it, especially the weather!!! (we had 2 feet of snow last weekend) He's a little homesick still but we are planning to visit next month and I can't wait....I'm so jealous of all of you who have Navy friends to get together with, there really aren't many here, as a matter of fact my son is the first sailor to come out of his high school in many, many years!!! Best wishes to you all...Thanks for keeping in touch!!!

Comment by MommaJeri on March 13, 2013 at 11:00am: My son will be an FC. He currently in ATT school at Great Lakes and after ATT, will be staying in Great Lakes for his A school. He won't leave Great Lakes until he is assigned a 'C' school.

Comment by Geri on March 13, 2013 at 7:18am: Hi all! Wow, it is amazing how time flies. My son stayed at GL after PIR for AT&T school. It was a cold, bitter winter but he completed his courses and deployed to SD for A school.

I am so proud of of him. He is brave and fearless and looks forward to deployment on a minesweeper one day. I don't get much information out of my Sailor either. He too wants to know more about what is happening at home and with our family.

I was fortunate to have dinner with a group of Navy moms recently. Each of them had a son and one daughter who were in listed. One mom's son was in OCS. Each mom's Sailor had various years of service, they were deployed to different Navy bases or attached to ships. It was amazing and nice to hear their experiences.

I hope each of you will have a similar opportunity to meet other Navy families who sympathize with our fears and eagerness to learn what is happening with our Sailors.

God bless America and our brave men and women.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on March 12, 2013 at 5:37pm: Hey bama mom - sorry I can't help with your sons job - mine is in Goose Creek, SC in nuke school.....are you not able to find a group for PACT airman? I know the nukes have a few different groups and I am lucky to be able to get lots of info on what is happening with my son.

It is hard to believe how quickly time has gone by! We will be traveling to SC in April to see our son and I can hardly wait.......

I hope you are able to get the info you are looking for....

What is everyone else up to?

Comment by bama mom on March 12, 2013 at 3:11pm: Hello everyone from PIR 12.21.12. I hope you all are doing well. I have not been on in a very long time. Shame on me. I hope all of the new Sailors and their families are adjusting well to their A-schools or wherever they are stationed now. Time flies when you are having fun! :o)

I would like to know if anyone can help me by sharing some of your personal experiences with your sailors in regards to their jobs as a PACT Airman. I have researched some of the sites for his job class (E1), but they are more generalized than personal. He is stationed @ Whidbey Island.

He and I have talked a little about some of the things he does in regards to his job. He has Watch Duty and that is pretty much all I know. I don't like to ask a lot of questions about what he does, even though I am dying to know. He would rather talk about home and things going on here, understandably so. I know he misses home, friends, family, the Alabama weather and football, etc. :o)

If anyone can help, I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks a million! Bamamom

Comment by MommaJeri on January 19, 2013 at 1:35am: The group is Wings For Sailors" and the group has a Facebook page. hope this helps. :)

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on January 19, 2013 at 12:48am: Hey Mommamac - I believe you are talking about "RanesMom(Ship02Div905)". You can find her listed under friends on my page!

Comment by Mommamac MM(CVN77) on January 19, 2013 at 12:18am: I was st the meet & greet on 12/20 at Sarge's location and there was a lady who spoke about selling shirts to help fundraise for future moms or families. Does anyone know how I can purchase these? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on January 17, 2013 at 3:51pm: Hi everyone - just wanted to stop by and say Hi and I hope everyone is adjusting to their sailor being away! My son finally starts his A school on Tuesday, 1/22. Excited for him to start this next adventure. And it's so nice to be able to talk and text him now.....He has been enjoying nice weather in South Carolina - much warmer than the cold we've been having here in Southern California!

Have a great day :)

Comment by robinbird1 on January 7, 2013 at 10:15pm: WOW - this is so weird coming back to this site. The clock is STOPPED and my son is no longer there, but in sunny warm Florida!!!! How do I tell you all how much this site has meant to me. I really could have never gotten through this without ALL OF YOU!!!! THANK YOU ALL FOR EVERYTHING!!! My son is finally happy in FL. Was a little unnerving at first, but he got through the "I don't know anyone" and "there's nothing to do" part. And he is meeting up with his BC buddies and making new friends. One thing I have to tell you is that before we left for PIR, MY SR asked ME to get on NAVY FOR MOMS to ask a few questions. LOL! When I first found this site - he was like - "That is dumb they won't give you any of the right answers". And as the months went on.... and I would tell him in letters and on the phone, all the things he needed to know or what I found out from all of YOU, he felt better!!! You ALL not only helped ME, but Him as well!!!! He came to rely on this site as much as me and that was just AWESOME!!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANKYOU! I hope to run into you all else where on here.. please let's try to stay in touch!!!! LOVE YOU ALL! (My email is soooo quiet now toooo, it's eerie!) :-)