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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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At 9:34am on July 8, 2011, carola said…
is there a thread just for 1138m
At 9:34am on July 8, 2011, carola said…
how is matt?  Shaun is in 1138m
At 1:41pm on June 12, 2011, dshrops said…

hapsmolmr or is it Carol?

was wonding if you would find your way to this site to. I also got a nice long phone call, isn't it nice to be able to talk with our sons about day to day stuff. My sons proposed to his girlfriend right after PIR and wants her to drive from Seattle to GC in September.

I also joined a nuke school charleston group that seems pretty active as well. Diane

At 8:29pm on May 30, 2011, dshrops said…
I just found this note asking me my sons name. Sorry I missed it before. His name is Caleb. Will look for you on FRIDAY!!! So excited!!!! We are flying in from Washington state Thursday (late) evening and will miss the meet and greet
At 10:55pm on May 21, 2011, TerriR said…
Yes!! How's your son doing? Mine has been sick but somehow has managed to keep going. I was so excited to see his picture on the RTC site playing in the band for PIR. Are going for PIR? I am and am counting the days.
At 2:15pm on May 19, 2011, mommaLori4 said…

To hapsmolmr:  Sorry I'm late in responding.  Don't have much to share from my SR--hope to have letter this week.  Definitely hadn't heard about the flag thing...

Glad you're going to PIR--hope to meet you there!  Looking forward to seeing my SR and the city--have never been there. 

At 7:33am on May 4, 2011, carola said…
that is a great idea   wish i had a backup kid   haha    happy mothersday to you
At 10:13pm on May 3, 2011, carola said…
got a phone call today  Shaun is good hope all is well with u
At 9:12am on April 29, 2011, carola said…

Shaun is in 09/191

got a letter yesterday was so excited.  He loves it   he is a strange child  lol

he is yoeman for 191 we have been living in nashville tn for the last 12 years

shaun was born in los angeles

i'm sorry Matts birtjhday is in boot camp Shauns 20th will be July 8 in Charelston (hopefull)  maybe we should change Matt's till then for this one and celebrtae then. I know we can't do last names here, I am on facebook  Carol Wells Arnold if you want to be on there I figure we have a few years together.. I'm so glad to meet you. it will make them being in Charelston so much easier with someone else going thru it  I hear they can not communicate that much there due to security reasons but aleast we can visit 

Carol

At 10:38am on April 28, 2011, carola said…
I can't believe you have gotten a letter and a call already.  Have not heard anything from Shaun as of yet so have no clue how many Nukes are there.  I did not realize there would be so many I guess cause it's harder I just assumned not many.  But thats awesome so we will all be south Carolina bound for our vacations...Hopefully they will get to all know each other and bond from everything I've read it is going to be very hard.  Best wishes to you and please keep me updated on Matt..   Carol
At 5:02pm on April 21, 2011, littlemiss said…
You already got a real letter from him? That's awesome! You didn't have to wait long at all. I got my form letter a few days ago. I can't wait to get my first letter and hear about how things are going.
At 9:39pm on April 18, 2011, carols_kitchen said…

Our sailor hated the word "hydrate" too.  He never mentioned the pillows--just that he was cold in the summer when he bunked down.

good luck--our son is a machinst mate/welder and loved his time in Goose Creek.

At 8:02pm on April 13, 2011, hapsmolmr said…
Yes, we got our first letter with the 4 lines of recruit remarks on it on Monday and then yesterday got the kid in the box stuff.  My son said RT is OK.  The food like a good TV dinner.  It was easy to get yelled at but they stop if you just do what they say and don't look lost.  His only complaint was the plastic pillows and drinking a lot of water with no bathroom breaks.  I have been doing a nightly journal of what is happening here and asking some generic questions that he can answer back if he has time to write and then I will send several days of my rambling in one envelope.  I will definitely start printing photos onto paper though -- that is a great idea.  My son is in the NUKE program and had to sign for 6 years too.  Where did you stay when you went to PIR.  We are going to have 5 to 6 people there.
At 10:06am on April 13, 2011, chew92 said…
Well now we know where you will be 6/3/11...the weather will be much better than my son's PIR 1/21/11. It was negative 34 degrees. Other than that the getting to PIR and on the base was pretty straight forward and the whole town is set up to help parents to get to PIR on time. Write, write, write to him. Be fun and silly sometimes but send in plain envelope.  You will be his ONLY entertainment.  Printing photos on you paper where you write your letter was the best advice I got.  Have fun watching your son become a man.  It is so exciting.  My son is in ET school in Great Lakes now.  It is a long school.  He had to sign on for 6 years to get this school
At 9:07am on April 11, 2011, chew92 said…
Welcom to San Francisco Bay Area Families Group.  My son had PIR 1/21/11 and is in ET school at Great Lakes for a year after graduation. Keep your phone with you at all times and know that the area code is 847.  I missed a call because I hesitated accepting a call from the 847.  They get calls as a priviledge we a graced at times we least expect to get the calls. Write, write, write to your sailor, send favorite comic strips, jokes, photos printed onto your stationery then write your letter. Write to us about your cares and anxieties
At 4:14am on April 11, 2011, BunkerQB said…
I know how you feel. My younger son is heading up to North Dakota to parts unknown for work. I am having trouble sleeping. My older son is safely encased in a submarine. Sounds funny, doesn't it?
At 12:25am on April 10, 2011, BunkerQB said…
San Francisco Bay Area Navy Families Group. Just click on this link and click +JOIN
At 4:02pm on April 9, 2011, Navy for Moms Admin said…

Welcome to Navy For Moms!

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Enjoy your time here! I look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :) 

-Colleen

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