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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 have some graduation questions???

Trying to find out after my son graduates - can he leave the base for the weekend or does he have to check back in to the base at night?  I know he has to stay within a 50 mile radius.  Where do the rest of the family members not atttending graduation hang out?  Can they even come on base?

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Comment by lemonelephant on April 25, 2013 at 7:05pm

Yes, everyone ages 3 and older must now be on the Access List to enter the Drill Hall to attend PIR. Your SR does not submit the names for the Access List until about 10 days before PIR, so there is plenty of time to write and let your SR know the 4 names of those who will be attending PIR. See http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/upcoming_grads.asp and http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/pdfs/FamilyGuide_v14Mar2013.pdf.

Comment by Melissa Ann on May 7, 2013 at 2:52pm

My son went in on May 2nd so when will he graduate ? Any clues ?

Comment by lemonelephant on May 7, 2013 at 5:06pm

Melissa Ann, to guesstimate the PIR date, count 9 Fridays after arrival to get the most likely PIR date, 06/28/2013, but then know that it could be the week before, 06/21/2013, if he is one of the last to fill a division from the week before (less likely for one arriving at the end of the week as your son did), or the week after, 07/05/2013, if he arrived after the divisions in that week's TG were full, possible for one arriving at the end of the week, but it does not happen often unless something caused extra recruits to ship during the week. See Arrival and What Happens at the RTC within Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones). I invite you to join that group while you are there and to check out the other Pages (found under the pictures of the Members) as well.

Comment by Navymassmomship13div313 on May 15, 2013 at 11:54am
When my son had PIR the sailors that were staying on GL for A school had to go to barracks get there stuff and move it to where they are assigned Most of the sailors got liberty depending on there travel to A school. My son along with hundreds more were scheduled to take bus to airport at 12:30 am. My son had liberty only till 8 pm and we had to drop him at base by 7: pm because they had to be checked in by 8 and there were tons of sailors. You are able to meet you sailor at the airport and hang with them until they boarded the plane. We were not aloud to give them there cell phones or laptops until we got to the airport. They were not aloud on GL.
no one knows there next duty until you actually have you sailor in your arms. We stayed at the navy lodge and we booked until the following Monday because the sailors for A on GL was able to have liberty all weekend. Once we met up with our son and found out when he was leaving we checked out early from hotel (no charge to do so) and headed back home. I hope this he's.

I wanted to leave the GL area because I was sad we didn't have the time with our sailor and blessed that everyone that did. PIR is absolutely amazing we had 1001 sailors that graduated that day

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