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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

Events

**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:

RTC Graduation

**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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Snipe Moms

Moms of Snipe sailors.

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Latest Activity: Oct 26, 2017

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Comment by TenaciousDee on July 13, 2012 at 10:22pm

Hi Marianne, my son is an EN and is currently at the GL for A School. 

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on July 12, 2012 at 7:07am

Hello TenaciousDee....my daughter is a DC.

Comment by TenaciousDee on July 12, 2012 at 12:16am

My son just called and told me he's a Snipe! So here I am! Hello everyone!

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on May 19, 2012 at 10:47am

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on October 11, 2011 at 5:12pm
Welcome Absoltuekraze. 
Comment by Absoltuekraze on October 11, 2011 at 4:31pm
I hope its ok I joined this group. I'm a girlfriend not a mom, but my guy is a snipe, and I need all the info I can get. :)
Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on May 7, 2011 at 5:54pm

Have a wonderful Mother's Day!

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on April 23, 2011 at 8:18am
Found this posted earlier to answer someone else's ??s about an EN...Engineering Common Core Mechanical Core Great Lakes, Ill. 3 weeks to 4 weeks

Introduction to technical documentation, basic mechanical theory, safety precautions and programs, alignment and operation of piping systems and equipment, hand tools, precision instruments, lubricants systems, bearings, couplings, gears, valves, pumps and the Maintenance Material Management System (3M). Group instruction and practical application.

Engineman Class "A" School Great Lakes, Ill. 6 weeks

Basic diesel engine construction, systems, maintenance and repair of auxiliary equipment including small bore engines, anchor windlass, elevators, steering gear, hydraulics, air compressors, galley and laundry equipment maintenance and repair, distilling plants. Watch standing and system tracing in an operational propulsion plant trainer. Group instruction and practical application

After "A" school, ENs may be assigned "C" School for a specific diesel mechanic course for advanced training prior to being assigned to ships, naval shipyards or naval repair facilities afloat or ashore in the United States or overseas. Upon completion of first fleet tour, ENs may be assigned to a "C" school for a specific diesel mechanic course for advanced training. In a 20-year period, ENs spend about 65 percent of their time assigned to fleet units and 35 percent to shore stations.
Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on April 23, 2011 at 8:13am
 tusol95(SHIP09/DIV135 - He'll be on a ship - wherever the NAVY NEEDS him!!!.....Enginemen (ENs) operate, service and repair internal combustion engines used to power some of the Navy's ships and most of the Navy's small craft. Most enginemen work with diesel engines. Enginemen also operate and maintain electrohydraulic controllable pitch propeller systems and steering engines, refrigeration and air conditioning systems, air compressors, desalinization plants and small auxiliary boilers. Enginemen perform their duties in surface ships.
Comment by lnovell011/180 on April 21, 2011 at 4:11pm
Also, each rating might have a special fun ceremony when someone gets frocked. When I was in (granted, that was many years ago!) everyone got frocked around the same time because the tests for advancement only happened around twice a year and everyone found out at the same time.
 

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