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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 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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PACT Moms

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Let's chat about our wonderful sons and daughters who have chosen the PACT program.

Members: 222
Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2022

Hello

It has been a long time since I have posted and I am sorry. I hope everyone has been able to connect with others in the PACT program. My son is now 3 and a half years in and it has been a great experience. He thought he wanted to be an AM. When he got on the ship, he was put with the AO’s. Now he is an AD3. It was best for him to start PACT because we didn’t know much about the Navy and he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. This has been a good route for him.

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Comment by TieranyC on March 24, 2017 at 12:45pm: I keep hearing nothing but negative things and people telling my husband not to go in as undesignated. He's a seamen. But I know he can pick a job within 18 months. So I am not sure what people mean by all the comments. Can someone help??

Comment by ReneeHum on March 22, 2017 at 4:31pm: I know how you feel same thing happened with my son. so all he's doing is his job and hoping something changes for the good. Tell him to hang in there.

Comment by Valtameri on March 22, 2017 at 10:58am: It is too bad that the correct information isn't given up front -- most PACT seem to take 12-18 months to get a rating.

However, I know at least one amazing story. My son was not PACT, he went in AD, and got to second class petty officer by his second year. One night, several months after that, he walked into another squadron's workplace to borrow something, and there was a new AD2 working there -- that sailor turned around, and it was an A-PACT guy from his boot camp division! Somehow, all that guy's stars must have lined up.

Comment by Michael on March 22, 2017 at 9:28am: Dcpfarmgirl. It's because recruiting only cares about numbers most of the time. Most not all but most recruiters lie to get the numbers enlisted. Sad but true. My husband is a PACT now been in a year still no rate. Just how it is

Comment by dcpfarmgirl on March 22, 2017 at 8:28am: My son is getting ready to be deployed. They just got briefed by the Career Counselor and was told that it would be a minimum of 12 months on ship before he could strike for a position. It could take several months before a position opens he desires and then obtain it. Then he has to wait for an A class to become available (a few more months) which usually runs 6 months in school. The advancement exam after A school to rank up is only given every 6 months, so if the timing is wrong, he could wait another 6 months to rank up. This means he it could be 2 to 2.5 years AFTER being on a boat before he can rank up. If he were not APACT, then he would bypass the 12 months on Boat and the several months waiting for a position to open. Sadly he knows what he wants to do, but felt pressured at the time to make a choice the same day with the recruiter/counselor, and the position he wanted was not available....hence he became APACT.

He feels PACT sailors get the raw end of the deal by having to wait much longer to rank up. Sadly, he was initially told he would be able to strike 6 mo after he joined the Navy, then 6 mo after being on a boat, now its 12 mo. It seems limited information was communicated to many of the recruits, so they never knew the process. Why is this not communicated early on so they know the different paths and timeframes associated?

Comment by MamaValley on February 21, 2017 at 2:07pm: Proud mama - Any time! I'm always available if you want to chat...

Comment by Proud mama on February 20, 2017 at 10:10pm: MamaValley, thank you for your comments about your sons PACT experience. It was very helpful and reassuring. My son seems ok with his decision. He is very excited to get started and that is good for me to see.

Comment by TieranyC on February 20, 2017 at 12:14pm: My husband will be staying where his BC is for the additional 3-4 week training. After he graduates & can I stay there in a hotel for the additional 3-4 weeks? I am sure it'd have to be at our cost. Would I be able to see him? Would it be worth it? Even if I can just explore the city, that'd be nice!

Also, how long do they send him home and give him to move? And would we have to drive both our vehicles to where we are being stationed?

Comment by Michael on February 16, 2017 at 9:25pm: It's one year from graduation not from day one. Striking a rate happens twice a year spring and fall and they will not let you do it early so you will wait sometimes longer then a year. My husbands mate failed his test last fall and has to wait till spring to retest. Some sailors joke around and play games the navy does not play games. It also take a lot to strike you have to get all your signatures for qualls before you can strike for a rate.