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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.
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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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Hi - Yes we will be there. Kind of hard to miss. I have 2 teenagers in wheelchairs. We plan to go to the Meet & Greet at Sarge's since that's where the majority of people from here are going. We are driving and plan to arrive on Thursday.
Wow! Congratulations =]... That's huge! I thought his graduation was the same as my husband's for some reason. I bet you're counting the days just like I am!!
Hey! He's graduating 7/13!! Only 19 days away....omg I cannot wait! He also found out that his a school is only 4 weeks, and we thought it was 12... How's everything going with you? When's your bf graduating?
Yeah, they have guest limits. They can only invite 4 guests. Children (under 12 I think), and retired or active military don't count. He'll have written the names of his guests in the PIR packet. I'm assuming they can change the names on the list if they want to. Just ask his mom if you were on the list.... I am sure you were!
No, ask every single question you can... PIR stands for pass in review, and basically means boot camp graduation. I got a little packet, like three pages, of graduation information for him. It had his mailing address, Division number and Ship number, grad date, some general information about what we can and can't bring to graduation, stuff like that. ANNNND, best part, he wrote a small note on the back of the pages =]
Will you be flying? I was looking at prices for plane tickets and the absolute cheapest I found was about 220 round trip, at southwest.com. They only fly into Chicago Midway though. But it can't be all that different from flying into Chicago O'Hare, as far as the distance from Great Lakes is concerned. The really great thing about Southwest is no baggage fees (which cost like $50 per bag usually!) and no cancellation fees! Which, say they (KNOCK ON WOOD) get pushed back a week, you can move your flight date without an extra fee. Southwest is about the only airline that flexible with their fees.
I know what you mean! I just want to hear from him that he's doing okay! He went to boot camp sick! So I'm hoping that first processing week gave him time to rest a little. I've read that there will be a short note from our recruits on either the box or the grad packet they send home (I feel like 50% of my day is reading online about the Navy and boot camp or writing him, haha)
I'm definitely trying to keep my letters upbeat and only mention that I miss him, rather than dwell on how miserable it is at home without him. After all, they are going through our feelings of missing loved ones PLUS Navy boot camp and everything that goes with it!
Does your boyfriend like sports or anything? I read some great advice for writing letters, they suggested sports scores, or comics... Except I read that another recruit was sent comics from the paper and he couldn't have them. My husband loves music, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I wrote down the lyrics to his favorite song, so he could at least hear it in his head. I also wrote some Mitch Hedberg jokes I thought he'd like. We used to listen to his CDs together on long car rides. Just some ideas for writing him.
Still it seems like he'll never come home. I can't believe it's ONLY been a week. Hopefully the next few weeks will go by more quickly. I've got to move by Wednesday, and my birthday is Thursday, and the following Monday school start. I'm hoping after all this, some time will have flown by.
I read that we're supposed to get their mailing address in about 10 days from the start of boot camp... So hopefully next week!!!
Calls for Recruits.org would like you to know about a program for the Men and Women of our Armed Forces. I am giving away free phone cards for Recruits to use while they are in basic training to keep in touch with Family Members and Loved Ones. I feel that the Family, Loved Ones, nor the Men and Women of our Armed Forces should have to pay for phone calls from Boot Camp. Please click the link above and get your new Service Member the FREE phone cards they need.
Hey! My husband left the same day your boyfriend did! I've been scouring trying to find someone who had someone in the same recruit class. I read your post about missing him, and I can definitely relate! I also see that you're from Colo... I'm living in Tennessee, but I'm from Fort Collins, so that's pretty crazy.
How are you doing now? Have you been writing your boyfriend? It helps me so much to write letters! I was talking with my family yesterday and they laughed that I had already written multiple letters, because to them it had only been a full day without Trey here. But to us who are used to having our significant others around 24/7, one day is full of moments without them which makes it really tough.
I'd love to talk back and forth with someone who can relate. So I'm here for you to talk to! Hang in there.... Everyone keeps telling me it'll be over quickly. We'll see about that I guess.
You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions. Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!
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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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Two days until you see your sailor!! I know you are ridiculously excited!! Have you got your "I'm a sailor" call yet??
Hi - Yes we will be there. Kind of hard to miss. I have 2 teenagers in wheelchairs. We plan to go to the Meet & Greet at Sarge's since that's where the majority of people from here are going. We are driving and plan to arrive on Thursday.
Wow! Congratulations =]... That's huge! I thought his graduation was the same as my husband's for some reason. I bet you're counting the days just like I am!!
Have you gotten the box yet? Or a letter or anything?
Yeah, they have guest limits. They can only invite 4 guests. Children (under 12 I think), and retired or active military don't count. He'll have written the names of his guests in the PIR packet. I'm assuming they can change the names on the list if they want to. Just ask his mom if you were on the list.... I am sure you were!
Super cute picture by the way
No, ask every single question you can... PIR stands for pass in review, and basically means boot camp graduation. I got a little packet, like three pages, of graduation information for him. It had his mailing address, Division number and Ship number, grad date, some general information about what we can and can't bring to graduation, stuff like that. ANNNND, best part, he wrote a small note on the back of the pages =]
Hey, I got my PIR packet in the mail! Totally cried when it came... My husband is Ship 12 Div 219.
Will you be flying? I was looking at prices for plane tickets and the absolute cheapest I found was about 220 round trip, at southwest.com. They only fly into Chicago Midway though. But it can't be all that different from flying into Chicago O'Hare, as far as the distance from Great Lakes is concerned. The really great thing about Southwest is no baggage fees (which cost like $50 per bag usually!) and no cancellation fees! Which, say they (KNOCK ON WOOD) get pushed back a week, you can move your flight date without an extra fee. Southwest is about the only airline that flexible with their fees.
I know what you mean! I just want to hear from him that he's doing okay! He went to boot camp sick! So I'm hoping that first processing week gave him time to rest a little. I've read that there will be a short note from our recruits on either the box or the grad packet they send home (I feel like 50% of my day is reading online about the Navy and boot camp or writing him, haha)
I'm definitely trying to keep my letters upbeat and only mention that I miss him, rather than dwell on how miserable it is at home without him. After all, they are going through our feelings of missing loved ones PLUS Navy boot camp and everything that goes with it!
Does your boyfriend like sports or anything? I read some great advice for writing letters, they suggested sports scores, or comics... Except I read that another recruit was sent comics from the paper and he couldn't have them. My husband loves music, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I wrote down the lyrics to his favorite song, so he could at least hear it in his head. I also wrote some Mitch Hedberg jokes I thought he'd like. We used to listen to his CDs together on long car rides. Just some ideas for writing him.
Still it seems like he'll never come home. I can't believe it's ONLY been a week. Hopefully the next few weeks will go by more quickly. I've got to move by Wednesday, and my birthday is Thursday, and the following Monday school start. I'm hoping after all this, some time will have flown by.
I read that we're supposed to get their mailing address in about 10 days from the start of boot camp... So hopefully next week!!!
Calls for Recruits.org would like you to know about a program for the Men and Women of our Armed Forces. I am giving away free phone cards for Recruits to use while they are in basic training to keep in touch with Family Members and Loved Ones. I feel that the Family, Loved Ones, nor the Men and Women of our Armed Forces should have to pay for phone calls from Boot Camp. Please click the link above and get your new Service Member the FREE phone cards they need.
Hey! My husband left the same day your boyfriend did! I've been scouring trying to find someone who had someone in the same recruit class. I read your post about missing him, and I can definitely relate! I also see that you're from Colo... I'm living in Tennessee, but I'm from Fort Collins, so that's pretty crazy.
How are you doing now? Have you been writing your boyfriend? It helps me so much to write letters! I was talking with my family yesterday and they laughed that I had already written multiple letters, because to them it had only been a full day without Trey here. But to us who are used to having our significant others around 24/7, one day is full of moments without them which makes it really tough.
I'd love to talk back and forth with someone who can relate. So I'm here for you to talk to! Hang in there.... Everyone keeps telling me it'll be over quickly. We'll see about that I guess.
Welcome to Navy For Moms!
You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions. Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!
If you haven’t already, please make sure that you review our Community Guidelines to learn the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the community. Also, check out this Internet OPSEC Safety Video.
Enjoy your time here! I look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :)
-Colleen