This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
N4M Merchandise
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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Hull Technician (HT) - Job Description and Requirements
HTs or hull technicians do the metal work that's necessary to keep all types of shipboard structures and their surfaces in good condition. These technicians also maintain shipboard plumbing and marine sanitation systems. They repair small boats, operate and maintain ballast control systems, and manage the Quality Assurance Program.
Duties Performed by Hull Technicians
•Installing, maintaining, and repairing valves, piping, plumbing system fittings and fixtures, and marine sanitation systems
•Repairing decks, structures, and hulls through welding, brazing, riveting or caulking
•Examining, testing welds, and various shipboard structures using radiological, ultrasonic, and magnetic particle testing equipment
•Fabricating with light and heavy gauge metal such as aluminum, stainless steel, sheet copper, sheet brass, steel, sheet, and corrugated iron
•Heat treating in hot and cold forming of metals
•Pipe cutting, threading, and assembly
•Repairing installed ventilation ducting
•Repairing metal, wood and fiberglass boats
•Installing and repairing insulation and lagging
•Operating marine sanitation system
Hull technicians work in a variety of situations both at sea and ashore. Sometimes their work is performed indoors in a shop environment, but at other times it might be performed outdoors, frequently at sea and in all kinds of climates and weather conditions. HTs might work in noisy environments on some assignments. USN HTs are stationed primarily aboard USN deploying ships, while full-time support (FTS) HT's are typically stationed aboard Naval Reserve Force (NRF) ships that deploy or conduct local operations.
Training and Other Requirements
This position requires attending a job school for a period of eight weeks at Great Lakes, Illinois.
An ASVAB score of VE + AR + MK + AS = 200 or MK + AS + AO = 150 is required.
Secret security clearance is required.
Applicants must additionally have normal vision color perception. They must have normal hearing and be U.S. citizens. The hearing requirement is tested at frequencies of 3000hz, 4000hz, 5000hz, and 6000hz. Your average hearing threshold level in these four frequencies must be less than 30db with no level greater than 45db in any one frequency. If an applicant's hearing level exceeds these limits, he is ineligible for the rating.
Sub-Specialties and Manning Levels
Sub-specialties available for this rating include the Navy Enlisted Classification Codes for HT.
Manning levels can change from time to time. An explanation of manning levels for this rating can be found in the CREO listing.
Advancement Potential
Advancement and promotion opportunities and career progression are directly linked to a rating's manning level. For example, personnel in undermanned ratings have greater promotion opportunity than those in overmanned ratings.
Sea/Shore Rotation for This Rating
•First Sea Tour: 54 months
•First Shore Tour: 36 months
•Second Sea Tour: 54 months
•Second Shore Tour: 36 months
•Third Sea Tour: 36 months
•Third Shore Tour: 36 months
•Fourth Sea Tour: 36 months
•Forth Shore Tour: 36 months
Sea tours and shore tours for sailors that have completed four sea tours will be 36 months at sea followed by 36 months Ashore or Retirement
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