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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!

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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:

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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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Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Religious-Program-Specialist/217319430612?ref=nf
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Comment by jeffiner-desert-wind on December 11, 2011 at 8:31pm: Anna V sounds like CREST to me too! My son enjoyed it. Its the kind of thing he lves t do...be in the field. The RP1 who trains them is quite the character. He calls his RPs young spartains devil chasng soul stealers. Training is at Camp Lekuine n NC. My son got to experience his first hurricane and second earthquake there this summer. Good trainimg for Japan. Lol
Your name looks familiar are you with the japan moms group too?

Comment by Anna V on December 11, 2011 at 8:04pm: jeffiner-desert-wind, our son is RP SN, serves with a CB Unit, has been in for 10 months and deployed to Okinawa just a couple months after finishing RP training at Ft. Jackson. He's done with his first deployment and is stationed back here now... He told us that he has to do some field training before his next deployment (late summer 2012, to the middle east) - sounds like CREST to me.

Comment by Malia on December 11, 2011 at 4:58pm: Thank you jeffiner-desert-wind. I will just keeping my fingers crossed hoping that he will get what he wants.

Comment by jeffiner-desert-wind on December 11, 2011 at 10:11am: Malia, your son can fnd out what he can do at bc about being full time. The issue s that Rp is a very small rate so there are few opeings for RPs. Marine combat training is now called CREST-Chaplan and Religious program specialist Expditionary Skills Training. Not all RPs go there unless they have orders to be with the Marines. I'm not sure if Joys son went...I think he was at A school with my son and if I am correct her son did not go to CREST. CREST has a fb page.

Comment by Malia on December 11, 2011 at 12:00am: Hi Joy, My son also signed up as an RP in the Navy Reserves. He was told by his recruiter that he can easily get Full Time Support position while in bc, and that is what my son want, he wants to go full time. His recruiter didn't say anything about Marine Combat Training. Any info you may have to share would be greatly appreciated. My son just left for boot camp last week.

Comment by jeffiner-desert-wind on December 7, 2011 at 11:19pm: Joy when did your son graduate frm CREST? Mine graduated october 17. He is in Japan now. Couldn't answer your question as. Was new and the way the program is being conducted is pretty new. My sailor graduated from a school in ft Jackson in august 11th

Comment by Joy on July 26, 2011 at 8:31pm: My RPSR is in his Class A training in Fort Jackson and will soon go to Marine Combat Training. He signed up in the Navy Reserves but has been told quite often that he will probably be deployed soon after graduating the Combat Training. How does that usually work? Will he have liberty at Marine Combat Training?

He has so enjoyed the Class A training and is looking forward to the future God has planned for him.

Comment by PDP on July 24, 2011 at 11:31am: Thank you again for answering my questions .... I am sorry to say that my SR has been injured during the first weeks of BC and is now in holding. We do not know what is ahead for him but does not sound like a short term injury. Please pray for his recovery to be swift and that God may see fit to move him forward to serve in his RPS rating. He made E2 and was doing so well. It is heartbreaking to say the least. But God is in control, and FAITH is the WORD I use most when talking to him.

Comment by PDP on July 18, 2011 at 10:15pm: Thank you Master Chief,

I appreciate that info. We have family in SC and would like to see him there instead of Mississippi. I know that with the military anything can change at any time. We are just grateful to God that he was given the opportunity to serve his country. Getting an RP position was a surprise, he was so happy about it.

Again thank you and God bless.

Comment by Anna V on July 18, 2011 at 2:24pm: Thanks Master Chief - our son attended RP A School in Ft Jackson, graduated and is now deployed to Okinawa serving alongside a SeeBee battalion. We, too, we confused back int he spring but figured the military would not send him to the wrong place!

Thanks for serving and in so doing, leading our Navy service men and women!