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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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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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Alumni of PIR 7/15/11 TG 35 - 227-230, 816, 935

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Comment by diannep on July 4, 2011 at 9:56pm: Gate passes for this group will be up tomorrow on the RTC site. Check the link that "Sandy" posted below during the day.

Also, RTC makes it clear that the password cannot be shared (for base security reasons), so hope you all have your form letter in a safe place because the password is in that. If you have misplaced it, your SR can tell you the word. Write and ask or remember to ask during the next call.

You can print out as many passes as you like! Don't forget to read Lala's advice below on the password.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 4, 2011 at 5:22pm: I think making it a 2 day trip is a very good idea. We drove last year from NC. Google said it was 12 hours and with stops, road construction and traffic delays it too 16 hours to get there. On the trip home it took 18 hours due to flooding in Chicago. It took 4 hours to go 35 miles. And I recommend having a regular old fashioned map with you. The GPS just kept taking us back to the interstate, which was closed. When my son joins a year from now I hope to fly up for PIR but if not I will definitely take 2 days going up and coming back.

Comment by Christy on July 4, 2011 at 5:07pm: Sandy's sailor son...we are driving from Oklahoma. Leaving sometime the 13th driving over half way and then on in to GL on the 14th with time to get to the meet and greet. We will have our 5yo granddaughter with us so going to make ita 2 day trip. Thanks for reminding us of the password...I had forgotten that.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 4, 2011 at 4:27pm: remember the password has to be typed in all caps if you can't get it to work you may have to download firefox or google chrome and try it again.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on July 4, 2011 at 2:32pm: Christy, When are you flying out to Great Lakes? Are flight was morning flight the day before. We got lost on the way to the Airport and even though we were over an hour early. We missed our flight. The line at the check-in was too slow so Frontier Airlines had to put my husband on a flight to Midway, While myself and our children flew Southwest to Milwaukee (forgot the name of the airport.) It whole day was like the movie Home Alone. We didn't arrive at the Ramada Inn until 10pm that night. We missed the Meet & Greet.

If we had to do it all over again, we would have just got tickets to Milwaukee and driven 35 minutes to Great Lakes. So much easier than dealing with O'Hare or Midway.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on July 4, 2011 at 2:14pm: Christy, thank you for bringing that up about the car passes.

Your password on the Form Letter is needed to get your parking pass.

Here is another site where you can download.
http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/index.asp

Comment by Christy on July 4, 2011 at 1:37pm: Okay ladies I found where to find the car passes but it is not our turn to get them yet...go to the Great Lake Recruit facebook under scheldues to find it when it comes ready.