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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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August 2022 Blog Posts (6)

Yvonne walking over 1/3 of a mile!

Yvonne is still fighting with pain; however, she is getting stronger and stronger every day! She is up to walking over 1/3 of a mile each day. We are doing the walking every morning at the lake near our house. We measured off the distance beginning with 1/4 of a mile and then increased the distance every few days. She was really surprised when I told her that 1/3 of a mile is the distance completely around the block by our house! It is way more pretty and fun to walk around…

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Added by John and Yvonne on August 26, 2022 at 1:09pm — No Comments

Thank you

Hi Navy family,
Thank you so much for your support and warm welcome ! It really is appreciated more than I can express in words . Just wondering: when I will stop crying?!?
I am still figuring out a different email and a user name. This may be a dumb question so please bear with me - will I lose my original Gmail account?

Added by Liz on August 25, 2022 at 5:39pm — 2 Comments

What are the rules

First of all I want to thank BelovedbyHim & Chipmunk for the very informative comments and info. This was very helpful and I thank you for taking the time!
I was recently updated by by dil's mom that she has a sprang and that she will be convalescencing and rehabilitation for a month. What I need to know now is what are the rules for me about writing to both my son and dil about news on each other. Is that allowed?? I Don't want to rock the boat!

Added by Cathy on August 23, 2022 at 10:53am — 1 Comment

My daughter in law was injured in her 4th wk of training.

My son and his wife are both at Great Lakes. I just found out from my daughter in law was injured via her Mom through fb. I plan to write to my daughter in law (Melissa,) in the morning, but the thought of waiting to hear back is tough. Does anyone know what will happen if it is a serious injury or she is not capable of returning right away. I was told that injury occurred while she was running and she injured her knee and collapsed and that she was getting an MRI done. She was relocated to… Continue

Added by Cathy on August 22, 2022 at 8:12pm — 3 Comments

Expecting a call from my navy recruit son

I'm wondering what area code I should expect a call from my navy recruit son in boot camp in Great Lakes Illinois. I'm anxious to hear from him and I recieve so many spam calls lately that I rarely answer unrecognized numbers. I don't want to miss his call though. Does anyone have any advice?

Added by Jennifer on August 8, 2022 at 9:49pm — 6 Comments

Driving for the first time since her surgery!

Yvonne had another good week. She walks about a quarter of a mile now, and this week she did it five days in a row. But, here is more exciting news, today after church we went to an empty parking lot and she got behind the wheel of our car for the first time. Everything worked fine and she drove us home! She enjoyed being able to drive again. Praise the Lord for another first! God is restoring her to health and healing her wounds. Thank you Jesus! Unfortunately, she still experiences…

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Added by John and Yvonne on August 7, 2022 at 9:10pm — 6 Comments

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