This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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!
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.
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."
**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).
**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 isno 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.
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Yes, using a laptop or computer is easier to make changes on. If using your phone, it is easier to make changes in the desktop view rather than in the mobile format.
Yes, now that he is a Sailor, he is able to use the rate (E-2, Airman Apprentice or AA) associated with his contract and rating (AG). See E-1, E-2, or E-3? How did that happen? for more on that.
Click on OPSEC and PERSEC (Making Changes to Your Profile) and the Page will open in a new window. Read the Page and follow the directions at the bottom to make change 3 (see the words in bold) so that this page is no longer visible to ANYONE with access to the web. There may be other changes you need to make as well, so read and consider each of the changes. Another change that I recommend that is mentioned in change 1 is to change the ZIP code to one that is not easily associated with your recruit.
E-2 in the contract means that your recruit is getting paid more than some at the RTC and he will have stripes on his uniform at PIR. See E-1, E-2, or E-3? How did that happen?.
My daughter is in div 913. We are driving (Ugh) up there since there are 5 of us going. Leaving on Wed. after work, so I don't think we will be going to the meet and greet. We will need sleep to get up early to be in line at 6:30 to get in the gates.
You and xfactormom live in my dream "neck of the woods!" My parents have had a place in Juno Beach since 83 so my kids spent many weekends there when growing up. My sailor son actually lived there for 1.5 yrs prior to the Navy--- finishing a school internship and working. We are so hoping to move to the Jupiter/Juno/Stuart area one day! So beautiful up there....and nicer people/better traffic than what we have here in MIA! :-)
Contact the PAO and they can tell you how to have "the box" delivered to you. You can contact the RTC Public Affairs Office at 847-688-2405 or via e-mail at rtc.pao@navy.mil. I prefer email since you then have documentation of the interaction.
Sometimes a recruit will not send the form letter for various reasons. He should have had holiday routine on Sunday so if he wrote you then letters would have gone out today because of the holiday yesterday. Write to him and ask for the Password if you plan to drive onto the RTC. He is the only one authorized to give you the password. See Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit and PIR Day and Liberty During PIR Weekend.
I got his PIR date from navigating this site. He wrote me on January 5th and. I haven't received anything more since. I've written him several letters and haven't heard anything! I'm confused.
The Form Letter is very important. It includes the recruit's address, PIR date, a listing of those he plans to put on the Access List when the time comes, and the password needed to get the gate pass if you plan to drive onto the RTC for PIR. There is info in Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit on how to get the info to fill in the blanks on The Form Letter. (It is located in the paragraph under the manilla envelope and above the Christmas card.)
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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.
FIRST TIME HERE?
FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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 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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Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
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Yes, using a laptop or computer is easier to make changes on. If using your phone, it is easier to make changes in the desktop view rather than in the mobile format.
He'll have these stripes:
Thank you for your kind words.
Don't forget to make at least change 3.
Yes, now that he is a Sailor, he is able to use the rate (E-2, Airman Apprentice or AA) associated with his contract and rating (AG). See E-1, E-2, or E-3? How did that happen? for more on that.
Click on OPSEC and PERSEC (Making Changes to Your Profile) and the Page will open in a new window. Read the Page and follow the directions at the bottom to make change 3 (see the words in bold) so that this page is no longer visible to ANYONE with access to the web. There may be other changes you need to make as well, so read and consider each of the changes. Another change that I recommend that is mentioned in change 1 is to change the ZIP code to one that is not easily associated with your recruit.
E-2 in the contract means that your recruit is getting paid more than some at the RTC and he will have stripes on his uniform at PIR. See E-1, E-2, or E-3? How did that happen?.
Since your recruit has a contract for Aviation Aerographer's Mate (AG), join Aerographers Mate- AG - Moms and A SCHOOL, BILOXI, MS and check out Airman Family and Friends. There is also a small group, Aerographer Mate Biloxi. You can also check out the Keesler Air Force Base Facebook Page. The Rating Information Card for AG can be found at https://www.cool.navy.mil/usn/enlisted/rating_info_cards/ag.pdf. Your then Sailor will most likely fly out to "A" School the day after PIR. See PIR Day and Liberty During PIR Weekend to help you know how to plan your weekend.
My daughter is in div 913. We are driving (Ugh) up there since there are 5 of us going. Leaving on Wed. after work, so I don't think we will be going to the meet and greet. We will need sleep to get up early to be in line at 6:30 to get in the gates.
Cool were staying at the Days Inn as well!!! Not to worried about the flight, it will go fast.
Were going to be leaving Thursday and we should be there to make it for the meet and greet :)
You and xfactormom live in my dream "neck of the woods!" My parents have had a place in Juno Beach since 83 so my kids spent many weekends there when growing up. My sailor son actually lived there for 1.5 yrs prior to the Navy--- finishing a school internship and working. We are so hoping to move to the Jupiter/Juno/Stuart area one day! So beautiful up there....and nicer people/better traffic than what we have here in MIA! :-)
You are very welcome!
Hi I just noticed that you are from Stuart fl and I am in jupiter fl. My SR is 11/92 pit 2/6. We are leaving the 5th from ft lauderdale
Contact the PAO and they can tell you how to have "the box" delivered to you. You can contact the RTC Public Affairs Office at 847-688-2405 or via e-mail at rtc.pao@navy.mil. I prefer email since you then have documentation of the interaction.
Sometimes a recruit will not send the form letter for various reasons. He should have had holiday routine on Sunday so if he wrote you then letters would have gone out today because of the holiday yesterday. Write to him and ask for the Password if you plan to drive onto the RTC. He is the only one authorized to give you the password. See Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit and PIR Day and Liberty During PIR Weekend.
The Form Letter is very important. It includes the recruit's address, PIR date, a listing of those he plans to put on the Access List when the time comes, and the password needed to get the gate pass if you plan to drive onto the RTC for PIR. There is info in Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit on how to get the info to fill in the blanks on The Form Letter. (It is located in the paragraph under the manilla envelope and above the Christmas card.)