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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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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PIR 5/14/10

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For anyone with a loved on Graduating on 5/14.

Members: 55
Latest Activity: Feb 13, 2013

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Comment by sandy on May 3, 2010 at 5:33pm: it allowed me to print multiple copies.

Comment by CootieBug on May 3, 2010 at 5:05pm: So, my daughter's invitees will be coming in three different cars. Are you allowed to print a parking pass for each vehicle or only one???

Comment by blessedpr on May 3, 2010 at 2:40pm: or rather Gate Passes <3

Comment by blessedpr on May 3, 2010 at 2:29pm: The Parking Passes are now avaialble !!

Comment by Arwen on May 3, 2010 at 11:16am: Regarding travel from the airport: you can also take a train from the airport to Great Lakes, and catch a shuttle (taxi) at the Great Lakes train station.

A taxi from the airport is $60 - $80, while a train ticket plus a taxi to the hotel is only about $20.

Wait, there is ONE taxi service that only charges $40 from O'Hare airport. If you want their phone number, send me a private message. I just happen to still have their business card from my trip.

Comment by Arwen on May 3, 2010 at 10:57am: All hotels have shuttle service, it's only a few hotels that have *free* shuttle service. All the shuttles are is minivan taxis. Generally there is a fleet of these taxis that waits at all of the area hotels PIR morning. If there isn't one waiting, then the hotel can call for one. On PIR morning they mostly run flat rates, you can get four or five people in for about $15, sharing the cost between you.

After PIR the shuttles (taxis) wait in a designated parking area just inside the main RTC gate. If your hotel has a free service, those taxis will be marked. If not, then you can take any of these taxis back to your hotel. Free shuttles and flat-fee rates generally end at noon, but the price doesn't change much all weekend.

Comment by sandy on May 2, 2010 at 11:23pm: yes, I should have took that into account when I made the reservation. But at the time I was looking for afforadable and a hotel that got good reviews. I found a really decent price for that one. I have some time to think about what we want to do.

Comment by sandy on May 2, 2010 at 11:00pm: La Quinta in Gurnee.

Comment by sandy on May 2, 2010 at 10:36pm: I would like the # of the shuttle company please. That sounds like it might be much easier to get on base.