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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

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**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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Can I send a package to my son?

My son's been in bootcamp 2 weeks now...I was wondering if I can send him a care package and what can I put in it. I know no candy allowed, but what else?

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Comment by lemonelephant on August 31, 2013 at 2:42pm: Also, no one indicated that anyone other than the recipient opens the package. It would be a federal offense for anyone other than the person the package is addressed to to open the package, but since packages sometimes contain items that are not permitted onboard the RTC, the recruit must open the package in front of his/her RDC.

Comment by ellen0502 on September 1, 2013 at 11:06am: When my son was in BC the mother of another recruit sent her son a package of boxers because he had told her he didn't like the tighty whities he was issued.

The box was opened in front of an RDC and the "underwear" was displayed. The recruit that received them had to stand at attention looking at the boxers and say "I love my Navy issued underwear" 50 times, while the rest of the division said it with him and did one push up every time it was said. The recruit for the rest of BC acquired the nickname "Boxer". :)

Comment by Hello2u on September 1, 2013 at 1:31pm: so yes it happens! and no, don't take a chance! wait til his out of BC to spoil him rotten! :)

Comment by abbyblue on September 1, 2013 at 9:42pm: best thing to do is wait and ask your recruit what he can and cant have get it from the horse's mouth. I know they cant have care packages. so listen to your recruit first.

Comment by LauriB on September 2, 2013 at 2:00pm: join the navy for moms group, there is a wealth of information there, if you search the groups, there should be a PIR group with his pir date you can join. that has the most information of do's & dont's...

Comment by lemonelephant on September 2, 2013 at 4:33pm: LauriB, josephine has joined Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) (I suspect that is the group you meant) and her PIR group. She needs to become familiar with the info in the Pages (found under the pictures of the members) in both of groups, but she can always ask questions.

Comment by CopiousAmour on September 4, 2013 at 5:12am: If cookies are sent he will either have to eat them in front of everyone, or the command will eat them and he will get in trouble. They are not allowed care packages until PIR. Only letters and pictures.