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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Today I Met Some Angels!!
Leading a PIR group is for the most part very fun! Soon, this Friday, we will converge on Great Lakes to watch with pride as our loved ones Pass in Review. We will shed a few tears, smile with overwhelming awe, and our hearts will be filled with gladness as we lay hands on those we love after several weeks of limited contact.
However, during these many weeks several of our recruits have been hurt, found to have prior health issues, and other situations which have forced them to return home. We grew close to their families and we will miss them on Friday. In addition, we had one recruit, who suffered a freak accident and broke her tibia while running. Now she is in the VA Hospital far from home. Her mom was able to visit her but couldn't stay.
I put out a call to our Sailor Rescue Group and was immediately contacted by Coco and MissmysailorPaula, members of the Chicago Navy for Moms group, who stepped up to the plate and said they would happily visit this young recruit and another one who is also injured. What angels they are! They didn't blink an eye, but quickly came up with a plan to insure that these young recruits would know people cared and were looking out for them. From the bottom of my heart I say thank you and I know I speak on behalf of our entire PIR group!!
I think it is amazing the reach that Navy For Moms can have. Hopefully these young recruits will return at some point to RCU,continue their rehab. rejoin another division and one day their families will stand with pride at their PIR. I hope you will join me in adding these brave young recruits to your prayer lists and send them good wishes in your hearts. They are truly remarkable and demonstrate honor, courage, and commitment under difficult circumstances.
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