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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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 little about me:
- I am the GODLY PROUD mother of my 16 yr old daughter and my 21 yr old Son who is presently @ BC. I am so grateful and thankful for this group which has helped me to continue to walk in faith by remaining positive, hopeful,and trusting GOD and HIS word for EVERYTHING. Thankful for GOD’s Promises and for each of you. Praying for the safety and success of our each sailors.
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- At Boot Camp now
- When I heard “Navy,” I...
- needed to learn more about it, was proud and encouraged it, had concerns or fears
- Our Navy experience so far...
- has been positive and maturing., is challenging and exciting.
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I see you have changed your Username so that it no longer contains your full name. You also need to change the URL (address) to this page. Make change 2 at the bottom of OPSEC and PERSEC (Making Changes to Your Profile) (clickable link) to take care of that. (If you are using a Smart phone, you will need to switch to Desktop View to make this change.)
Also make change 3 while you are there so that this page is no longer open to EVERYONE (Anyone) with access to the web.
There may be other changes you need to make as well, so read and consider each of the changes.
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Since you have a Sailor, you can change "At Boot Camp now" above to “Enlisted.”
If you get an error message, then look at the area/s in the error message and unclick all of the choices in the area/s and make choices closer to the question/s. Some choices may have changed since you joined.
I cannot remember if I RSVP’d for the Family Welcome & Greet
/ Meet. The PIR is 2/9th.
Is it too late? How do I check or confirm RSVP?
Thank you.
I’m not sure I know when I will get to spend time with him when we arrive the morning a day before PIR.
Thank you
Glad to help you out. It looks like you are fairly new on N4M - be sure to let Lemonelephant know your son's rating. She can help you connect with others where his A school will be. Hopefully you can get more advice from them on what to expect after PIR. My son flew out as well to his A school. He had a long delay in getting his orders actually finalized, so we only saw him for a couple of hours on Friday after PIR. And he wanted to be back to RTC by 7:30 pm. It really is better to get them back early, the line of cars was very long and they are not allowed to be dropped off outside of the gate.
Those that fly out will usually do so on Saturday morning from any one of the 3 area airports, and the buses leave very early in the morning from RTC. Since we had driven to GL, and our route was back south, we checked out of our hotel room at 1 am and drove to O'Hare airport where we stayed with our son until he left on one of the earliest flights out in the morning.
If your sailor is flying out, it really is best to stay as flexible as possible, and not plan to do a lot of extra things. Stick nearby RTC and find out what your sailor wants to do. They can not be late returning and early is always better. Also, you will want to plan to go to the airport to at least give him his cell phone so that he can call you and communicate easily with you once he is at A school. That doesn't mean he will have a lot of time, but it makes getting further information like his new address and schedule easier.
DESHONB.........A, I see you have changed your Username so that it no longer contains your full name. You also need to change the URL (address) to this page. Make change 2 at the bottom of OPSEC and PERSEC (Making Changes to Your Profile) (clickable link) to take care of that. (If you are using a Smart phone, you will need to switch to Desktop View to make this change.)
Also make change 3 while you are there so that this page is no longer open to EVERYONE (Anyone) with access to the web.
There may be other changes you need to make as well, so read and consider each of the changes.
Hi there - to delete your last name you start out on your "my page". Click on "settings" on the left. Then click on "My page". 3rd option down shows the "address". Change it there - you can put your user name there and then be sure to hit "save" at the bottom. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Welcome to the Site, Glad to have you along. I help out with the Boot camp for loved ones, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know and I will do my best to get you the info you are looking for. go into settings on your main page and re-do your name ok.
Welcome to NAVYforMoms.com!
We ask that our members not use a last name in their Username - even if it differs from their Sailor's - so please head to “Settings” on the main page right away to set your new Username (be creative!) and add a profile image (no last names visible) to complete your Profile. Then - and this is important! - read these Community Guidelines and this Operations Security (OPSEC) Checklist, for the safety and privacy of all our Sailors.
Then jump right in! Browse around the site and check out the groups and the information in their Discussion Forums.
Join this group for boot camp moms, where you'll also find a group for your Pass in Review (graduation) date; and this one for PIR Reference Information.
Get a head start during boot camp by joining groups for, and learning about, your Sailor's occupational specialty and "A" School; and later your Sailor's duty station and/or Navy ship and homeport. You can also join groups for your own state, region or home town and interests from getting ready for deployment to care package ideas.
Please say Hi when you join a group, and feel free to ask any and all questions - everyone was new once, and there is no "dumb" question.
This site was created by the U.S. Navy just for you. We look forward to getting to know you and your Sailor.
Welcome to the NAVY family - we're so glad you're here!!
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