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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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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Thanks to those who helped

1. Thanks to those who responded kindly. Sorry for my choice of words.. I mistakenly said tickets (shame on me)
2. To those snarky unhelpful folks, YES I Have read EVERYTHING I could get my hands on in regards PIR! I also knoW that I was told ONLY 4 when my son left for boot camp yet they didn't even ASK for names and ALL got in. So what is SAID and WHAT happens is different.

I hope all have a wonderful evening.

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Comment by ellen0502 on September 10, 2013 at 10:43pm: Dawn, I think the confusion is coming from a reply to your post about having tickets to PIR. Part of the problem here is your blog post is also posted twice, so everyone is posting to two different posts, and the word "ticket" is used on both blogs by someone else.

The "reading" comment was directed at the recruiters not you. There seems to be lots of information that comes to this site from the recruiters that is incorrect. Those of on this site all the time know it isn't correct because we hear directly from the "moms" who are going through it, and we get info from the RTC website and other sources.

I am not sure what you are saying about "ONLY 4.....and ALL got in", so I can't help you there.

Do you know the PIR date and division number for your SR? There is a group for each PIR date and lots of information there for you. You can also get to know others with SRs in the same division as yours.

Comment by Edie on September 10, 2013 at 10:48pm: I'm sorry about saying tickets got wrong information.
Also sorry people are so rude. You are just wishing
Your mom could make it.my phone double post
Things sometimes.

Comment by lemonelephant on September 11, 2013 at 12:53am: DawnF, I too am confused about your statement "I also knoW that I was told ONLY 4 when my son left for boot camp yet they didn't even ASK for names and ALL got in. So what is SAID and WHAT happens is different." Is this your second one at the RTC? If so, if your first had PIR more than a year ago, then things have changed since then. The RTC used to have a stand by list and most, if not all, people who arrived at the RTC ended up getting in to see PIR, but that is not true any longer. Beginning about a year ago for some TG's, there was a strict adherance to the 3 or 4 guest rule and then beginning in January 2013, that has been the case for every TG. Two reasons for the change are: 1) there was a change in command last year and 2) we have heard that by allowing the number of people in that the RTC previously let in that they were in violation of the fire code and that was a safety concern.