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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.
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:
**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:
**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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These are the items you will want to mail to your recruit NOW so they can hand you the answers on PIR day. They will not know the exact answers until 1-3 days prior to graduation!
Dear (son/daugher),
Once you have your plane ticket, complete the answers below and then take it with you to PIR and hand it to us after the ceremony (don't mail it):
Airport_______________________________
Airline________________________________
Flight #___________________________
Flight time_________________________
First destination (if more than one flight) _____________________________________
Time the bus leaves RTC_______________
Are you on a special "chartered flight"? ____
Tags:
This is for the Grad and Go sailors. Do you know where your rct is going to A school? You won't find out about G&G for a few weeks so just relax....this is just a quesitonaire that you mail them so if they are G&G to somewhere other than Great Lakes you will know when to meet them at the airport and which airport.
Sometimes sailors (Grad and Go, aka G&G) in the first two divisions leave directly from PIR to the airport to travel to their school. They are only allowed 15 minutes with their families before leaving. However, families MAY meet them at the airport to hang out at the USO to have some time together, and to give them their phone, laptop and other personal stuff before they fly to their A-school. In order to get a TSA pass into the airport, you must have their travel information.
I have seen some families do a 3-way trip. They fly to Chicago for PIR, then fly to their sailor's A-school city to spend tihe rest of the weekend together before flying home. It's not too expensive if you have plenty of advance warning. One family actually managed to get on the same plane as their sailor.
when should i make reservations and airfare?
FOUND THIS ON THE US NAVY RECRUIT PAGE ON FACEBOOK THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL
U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command
As of one year ago (my son PIR'd on Feb. 19, 2010), they had three types of GnG sailors.
GnG who stay in Great Lakes. These sailors go back to barracks after a 15 minute visit, then spend the next 5 hours moving to another part of base and checking into their school. When they are done they get a "normal" liberty weekend.
GnG who ship out to the airport immediately after PIR. Contrary to what the RTC Facebook website says, two full divisions from my son's PIR group did this 10 months ago. Many of the parents from those divisions didn't bother going for PIR and a 15 minute visit. Too much money and time spent for a very short event. This is why I suggest meeting them at their A-school for the longer visit. I valued my 3 days with my son far more than any 3 hour ceremony.
GnG Saturday-ship, a type of GnG who get Friday with their families, then go to the airport Saturday. You can meet most of these sailors at the airport for a visit and to give them their computers and other gear. I suggest purchasing a Navy camouflage backpack for these items, they will need the backpacks later, those are what they are allowed to carry while in uniform at A-school. They can be purchased at the NEX on Friday, by you or your recruit. Some Saturday-ship sailors will be on charter flights. You will not be able to meet them at the airport, they are delivered by bus directly to their plane, and do not spend time in the airport.
How do you know if your recruit will be GnG, and which type? Wait, they will tell you. Sometimes they know by the fifth or sixth week, other times they are told a day or two before PIR, and you won't know
until you get there. Usually the first two or three divisions are all GnG, but not always, and individual sailors in other divisions may be GnG. But the vast majority of recruits are not GnG, they have the usual PIR liberty weekend and remain at RTC for a few days the next week.
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