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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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A permanent place for information about PIR. Forum discussions have been created to serve as file folders for specific details regarding different aspects of PIR. Please post information in the appropriate forum discussion. Thank you!

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Latest Activity: Aug 20

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Comment by WandaG on November 20, 2011 at 8:50pm: Hi Everyone! Just got back today from my daughter's PIR. It was beautiful. She looked so great. She was in Div 901 (chorus). They did such a nice job, all of them! We are so proud of our sailor. All she did was sleep in our room though. She was exhausted and was not feeling well. We did get to talk a lot though.

We attended Sarge's Meet & Greet at the Sundance Saloon. It was very nice and very informative. There was lots & lots of food. If you need someone to drive you around call Sarge 847-212-0246. He goes above & beyond. If I didn't have him over the weekend, I would have been lost. Several incidences came up with my daughter and thank God we had him to help us out. He likes to adopt 1-2 families per PIR weekend and dedicates his time to them as well as his other drivers. He is the best. For those sailors who are not fortunate to go home for Thanksgiving, he invites to his house. This year he will have 30 sailors join his family. How wonderful is that? I cannot say enough about him. He genuinely cares for these kids. Below is a pic and me and Sarge.

Comment by Whit and Stephen's Mom (Ann) on November 13, 2011 at 9:16pm: Enjoy your time with your Sailor! It is emotional, fun and energizing all at the same time! Bring lots of tissues!

Comment by Whit and Stephen's Mom (Ann) on November 13, 2011 at 9:15pm: @kristie yes, for $2 you can park in the train lot. You don't have to wait in traffic and it is literally a stone's throw to the hall. It is closer than any lot on base.

Comment by kristie 09/016 on November 13, 2011 at 1:59pm: Ok, thanks!! We plan on hanging around as long as we can, so traffic shouldn't matter too much.

Comment by spontino on November 13, 2011 at 1:56pm: We parked on base and it was very easy and didn't have a long walk to get in...they say if you are trying to get off base quickly after PIR that there is a lot of traffic. But for us, we hung around for a little bit so it didn't matter and there wasn't a wait to get off base.

Comment by kristie 09/016 on November 13, 2011 at 12:51pm: @whitsmom, so are you saying the best place to park for PIR is in the train station parking lot? I thought we could park on the base? How much did parking at the train station cost you? And what train station is it?

Comment by WandaG on November 13, 2011 at 12:37pm: Thanks Whit's Mom but we will not be driving. We will be using Sarge's service to get picked up and dropped off, except for Chicago. We plan to take the train in for that.

Comment by Whit and Stephen's Mom (Ann) on November 13, 2011 at 11:59am: Wanda G - The best advice I got last weekend was the train station parking! The driveway/road literally ends in the parking lot. Just keep to the left, as everyone else will be turning right onto the base. Get your "space number" because you will need it when you pay for parking.

Comment by WandaG on November 13, 2011 at 10:22am: Bellachella, I figured my daughter would not have the energy to go into the city. She liked the idea of staying fairly local. She really liked the idea of hanging out at the Gurnee Mall and eating at Cracker Barrel then head to the hotel and just relax and talk. All she wants to do is talk and catch up with us. So since her father needs to spend time with her separate from us. He will spend time with her Friday and Sunday and my family and I will go into Chicago after PIR on Friday and hang; Saturday will be our time with her. We'll have her the whole day :o) Sarge also told me the train station is 100 yards away from the base; easy walk. So we may just do that since it's a lot cheaper as well. I can't wait for PIR which is November 18.

Congrats to you and your sailor!

Comment by WandaG on November 8, 2011 at 10:39pm: Has anyone who's been to PIR taken the "Navy Tour Chicago" bus? It's a bus or shuttle that takes you all over Chicago. $40 round trip. It departs from the base at 11am after PIR and returns you around 7pm. Just wanted to get someone else's take on it.