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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:
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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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The Box - how long does it take before you get it?
My son has been gone for over a week now to Great Lakes. I have been told that I will get a box with his clothes and other items that they ship back along with his contact information and address. I haven't gotten it yet and every day it's harder when I get home and see I haven't gotten it. I have letters ready for him, but have no idea where to send them. How long does it take to get 'The Box"?
I'm starting to panic that maybe it got lost or something.
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Comment by UrabissWife on June 23, 2012 at 12:14am
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hi Timmothysmom i received my husbands box a little over a week from when he got there. you will not get his address at the same time. it will come in his PIR form letter which they send out the first week they are there. unfortunately my PIR form letter got lost in the mail. i called his recruiter two weeks after he got there and told him i hadn't received anything but his box. he gave me an address that i sent all my letters out to. later i found out that some recruiters dont check on their sailors so they sometimes give you the wrong address so make sure you ask him if it is the up to date address. i got my insurance papers three weeks after he left. and that following thursday i got his first letter :) it took 6 days to get here. then today i got his PIR form finally and i got a phone call :). so all n all people can give you a round about time that things happen but it really all depends on what day they are on, how their RDC's are and how good the mail is lol. i pray you get it soon!
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Comment by Ship11_Trevors Mom on June 23, 2012 at 2:16am
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My son left for boot camp on 6-5-12 and i just got a letter from him yesterday. He sent it out on the 18th of this month. So, it took about 2 weeks to get a letter. Hope u get to hear from him soon.
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Comment by Jose's Mom-Yeoman on June 23, 2012 at 10:47pm
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Hi TimmothysMom My son left for bootcamp from LAX on Tuesday 6/19 arrived GL that night, I got his box yesterday 6/22. It contained all his clothes and cell phone. It was a lot quicker than what I heard so I am happy to received it. I smelled his clothes, it made me feel better but miss him oh so much. I can't wait for the letter or the call. I worry about what he is going through, I told him the day he left that I believe in him and he wil do great and the tears I shed are happiness for him but also that I will miss him. The Navy and his fellow recruits will take care of our sons. Be patient you should receive his box soon.
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