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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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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GANukeMom(EM mom)'s Blog (24)

Drop off day

Today is the day that we take him to his recruiter so that he can go to the hotel and then to MEPS tomorrow.

I have cried like so much my eyes are swollen and I know that this is only the beginning. His leaving has also hit our 6 year old daughter hard today.

I've tried to point out all of the positives to her, but she knows that her bubba is leaving and she will not get to see or talk to him for a long time ( in her world). It is hard for me to disagree with that.

We…

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Added by GANukeMom(EM mom) on July 1, 2012 at 1:42pm — 3 Comments

One Week from Today

One week from today we take our son to meet his recruiter so that he can go to MEPS the next morning. In fact, I suspect, it will be one week from this time.

I'm doing the best I can to hold back the tears, or head to the bathroom, in front of him. We are trying to do things that we know we will not get to do for a while with him.

At the same time though, the tension is getting tight between my husband and I. I know that is because of our mixed feelings concerning our…

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Added by GANukeMom(EM mom) on June 24, 2012 at 4:34pm — 3 Comments

Making Memories

Today is a day of making memories with my future NUKE.

He, his 6 year old sister, and myself spent the first part of the day at a Susan G Coleman fundraiser as I attempted to make some money to fund our trip to see his PIR in late Aug., first of Sept.. I got to see him flirt with young ladies, spend time with his sister, and a huge help to me and other vendor. As odd as it sounds, I think we all 3 had a good time.

This evening, he, his little sister, my husband and I…

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Added by GANukeMom(EM mom) on June 9, 2012 at 5:45pm — No Comments

He hasn't even left yet

My son leaves for boot camp 5 Mondays from tomorrow and I am sooo emotional. I go from crying my eyes out as if he were dying on July 2 to being excited for him and the decision he has made about his future. I've considered all of the positives about him being a NUKE in the Navy and yet I still look at it that my baby boy is leaving home and I will not get to see him like most parents do whose kids go off to college at this stage in their lives.

Not only am I having to deal with my…

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Added by GANukeMom(EM mom) on June 3, 2012 at 11:46pm — 4 Comments

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