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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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I am very proud of my daughters decision !!
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At 7:39pm on November 7, 2010, Mary, Proud Mom of Nick said…
Ohhh, it hurts missing a phone call but it happens often. I wish I could tell you when she will call home again but it really varies from division to division and there is no rhyme or reason to it - it depends on their RDC and when they earn a phone call. It's a tough call about missing her PIR - it really is quite an event but they do sell a dvd of it. I do understand for those that are graduating in December and the sailor gets to come home on leave that month too - it can be expensive.

Performance division means they either carry a state flag or perform in the band at graduation. Generally for two or three weeks before they actually graduate - they perform at the graduations before theirs. It means they have extra practice to prepare for this.

AECF stands for Advanced Electronics Computer Field, everyone in AECF is either an ET which is Electronic Technician or an FC which is Fire Control. FCs work with all of the weapons systems that are computer driven now. She will find out right before she graduates which rate she will get - both are good rates!
At 6:26am on November 7, 2010, Lori_KingsBay_USSRI_Radio said…
Hi Karen - welcome to 12/17/10 PIR Group! We're glad you found us. Let us know what Ship/Div she is in; you will see a specific discussion group on our page for each Div. I hope you find the posts and discussion groups helpful and I am looking forward to sharing my journey with you. I am one of four administrators for our group. WELCOME! Lori
At 8:56am on October 28, 2010, Mary, Proud Mom of Nick said…
Karen, you will receive her address as part of a "form" letter of rules and regulations at boot camp. It can take a few days, for us it took nine days. Once they are done being processed and are assigned to a division that information is entered into the computer and your recruiter has access to that address. So after three or four days, you might call the recruiter and see if they can give you an address yet. In the meantime - go ahead and start writing letters and then when you have the address, you can drop them in the mail.

We live in the south and our son made it thru one wicked winter there but he is enjoying his winters in Hawaii now much better!!! lol

I am sorry to hear you have sick family, keep the Red Cross info handy but a word of caution while she is in boot camp. It's really important that she focuses on her training the next eight weeks, they are looking for loose links that they can discharge so try to send her positive, supportive news as much as you can. In the event that a family member passes, they would only let her leave if it is immediate family - no grandparents. Should she be able to leave training, chances are she would have to start all over again and perhaps wait for another opening in bootcamp; many deppers have waited almost a year already. We have had many discussions here if something serious happens while they are in boot camp - do we tell them while they are in training or after they graduate. It's a personal and tough decision to make and I hope that you won't have to in the immediate future. We are here for you -
At 8:22am on October 27, 2010, Mary, Proud Mom of Nick said…
Hi Karen, wanted to welcome you to the site and the AECF group. It looks like your daughter just left for boot camp...are you holding up okay?? The first couple of weeks are hard on the parents as you just sit in wonder ...are they okay, is the food okay, do they hate it, are they sorry that they joined, etc. etc. but when that first letter arrives you will be pleasant surprised that things are much better than you could hope for! Expect your first letter between the 2nd and 3rd week as they can only write on Sundays and generally you will receive mail from GL on either Wednesday or thursday depending on where you live. Now back to AECF - your daughter is going into a fabulous rate; both ET and FCs are great jobs with lots of schooling on the front end. Expect her to be in GL for a school about a year and then they will move her to another state for C school but she won't know which one until the end of A school. Also she won't know if she is an ET or an FC until boot camp is almost over. My hubby was an FC for 10 + years and now our son is an FC and is stationed in Hawaii. Please let us know what questions that you might have and welcome!
At 10:29am on October 5, 2010, Navy for Moms Admin said…
Welcome to Navy For Moms!

You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions. Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!

If you haven’t already, please make sure that you review our Community Guidelines to learn the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the community.
Also, check out this OPSEC Internet Safety Video

Enjoy your time here and we look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :)
-Colleen
 
 
 

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