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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.
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:
**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.
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Hi! The new adoption for Molly's Adopt A Sailor was announced today in the Discussion Forum on the Molly's page. We hope you will help us send some love from home to these sailors. Pat
Hi,You are now a member of "MAS We Ship Love." You now have access to the addresses for the adoptions for "Molly's Adopt A Sailor." Please check out our group. The Feb. adoption will be announced tomorrow!
BTW, my sailor is a Nuke, too! He is currently on a sub based in San Diego.
Thanks for joining us and if you have any questions, just send me a message. Pat
ATT is Apprentice Technical Training. I was given info awhile back that indicated that those in the Nuclear Field (NF) (ET, EM, MM) have ATT at GL following PIR, but by checking in the NUKE moms group, that is incorrect and they do fly out the day after PIR. Thanks for bringing this error to my attention. I will let MOMof5 know of my error. Take care and blessings to you and yours.
My son also is ship 14 div 152. Have not found much on here yet for that division, no private group formed yet. I am so glad I finally found another mom in this group.
Elias is a youngster :) He'll actually be turning 19 during BC. But he didn't want to go to a 4 year school without a direction for study so he figured he'd join the Navy...see what interested him..and then let the Navy pay for his bachelors and beyond ;) Sometimes I think he misses his friends who have gone the 'traditional college' route but I think he made the right decision.So I can totally understand where your son is coming from. College debt is horrible!!
Don't remind me..3 months is going to fly by! I have co-teachers here that have their sons leaving for deployment now. We're all a puddle of tears whenever we think about our 'babies' leaving! lol
Hi Lighthouselady,
Elias is a Nuke too. He's going in as a E3 because he's an Eagle Scout. The RDC in charge of the nukes called Elias the other day to check up on him and discuss some of his options when he gets to Great Lakes. Elias signed in May of 2012 but was still in high school so he couldn't leave right away..and he has braces, which are coming off tomorrow :) Just 3 more pounds and he'll be at weight but he wants to drop extra so he has room to be 'naughty' and not get in trouble for gaining.
I'm glad he's not leaving before the holidays, at least we have one last season to be all together because who knows after this when he'll get leave to come home.
HI Lighthouselady. I saw that your son was leaving on Feb. 19th too! Where in Eastern Iowa are you? We drive through Iowa a lot on our way to my husband's stomping grounds in Nebraska. And I student taught on the western side of WI so I am very familiar with the Dubuque area :) Love that I'm meeting other mom's who will be giving their children to our country's service at the same time as I am.
we need to keep in touch and be support for each other!!! this is great!!