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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!

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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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Just sent my daughter off to Bootcamp.

Holly just left for Great Lakes on Wednesday.  I got the call that night saying that she was there, she was safe, and that i will be getting a box of her stuff in about a week or so followed by a letter in about 2 to 3 weeks.  Boy, that was hard.  I feel like I am lost.  I can't talk to her or even see her.

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Comment by AJVNavyMom on February 11, 2011 at 9:12pm
My son is starting week 6, it hasn't gotten any easier, that's for sure.  Hang in there.  It's tough, I know.  She will be ok.  Stay busy to help pass the time.  Get your pen and paper ready, mail is critical for them.  All the best to your daughter. 
Comment by jllindsey on February 11, 2011 at 9:20pm
Thank you.  I sure wish that it would get better.  I hope that your son is doing well.  I have already written her a letter and now I am just waiting for an address.  I keep wondering if she is eating well and if she is sleeping enough. 
Comment by AJVNavyMom on February 11, 2011 at 9:35pm
Oh she'll eat well.  My son said they eat 3 "pretty good" meals a day.  Her showers will be quick, and she will sleep.  Lights out at 10:00.  Once she gets settled, she'll make sure she sleeps, she will look forward to it.  Letting go is an incredibly hard thing to do, but in doing it, we need to know they will be fine.  Yes, look for the box next week.  A form letter will come a few days-week after that.  You'll get her address and PIR date at that time and that will make you feel a little sense of ease.  My son is doing well.  We had one call from him and he sounded really good.  He said it was what he expected.  We get a letter or two once a week and he is doing well.  Anxious for the 4th...as are we!
Comment by Ashes momma on February 12, 2011 at 5:01pm
I am right there with you.. My daughter left just the day  before your daughter did.. I recived her box yesterday. I'm calling the recruiter Monday to get her address. So the letters can start.. My oldest daugher has already written a letter to her sister.  Good luck to you..

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