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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

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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).  

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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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Moms of Daughters 2

A place to come to for support, guidance, to ask questions and share stories. We are all proud of our Navy Daughters.

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Care packages for new graduates (a school)

Started by Cali's mama. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Mar 19, 2021. 3 Replies

Looking for current information for my daughter on what's allowed for care packages..idk if it matters that she is in the great lakes location or not..ship 7 div 136...lonely mom with confused tears lol

Bootcamp arrival Sept 8, 2020??

Started by Stephanie0725. Last reply by Shoosh Oct 5, 2020. 4 Replies

Hello! Got the call that my daughter made it to bootcamp quarantine last night 09/08/2020.  Looking for other moms out there on the same timeline. Sadie is my baby, only daughter, and only child in the military.  I think I am going to need lots of…Continue

PIR DATE: December 13, 2019

Started by Donita. Last reply by Donita Nov 5, 2019. 5 Replies

Anyone else’s recruit have a PIR date ofDecember 13, 2019?Continue

Arrived at boot camp October 2nd

Started by Donita. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Nov 5, 2019. 26 Replies

Hey everyone- my daughter left for boot camp October 2nd. I missed a call from her last Friday telling me that her graduation is December 13th. I feel like the worst mom in the world for missing her call. Really didn’t expect her to call so soon but…Continue

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Comment by Blondie on October 15, 2019 at 8:21am

Love the pictures Anna!

Congrats JayDee, make a world of difference when you know them and approve.

Deanna, How exciting for you! Scaring but  moving ahead. Ohh, dry dock even better. My daughter tho always was loaned out to others her rate was undermanned. 

Oleander, can't wait to see/hear about your progress. 

Potterycat, HUGS, I'd like to tell you it gets better but usually don't but we learn to cope.  

I've been absent a lot lately, just A LOT going on here. Another preceptee at work, makes for more work for me. The extra training, watching and working with his college, sending reports, hours.... This is a bad time of year for my health problems, we're cold and scraping windows in the mornings again. The cold/damp hurts!  Joseph is growing and changing way too Fast, it's been 3 weeks since I saw him  Well it will be Sat/ when I go back down, Church festival, cleaning up yard/garden for winter.... and other duties have kept me here. :(  When Sailor got back to VA, he got a promotion, witch moved him to a different Pod (?) so his deployment has been jacked around a lot, delayed 2 weeks, then no leaving in 2 days! Just him and 3 others, after to go ahead, no military flights so have to go civilian, caused all kinds of problems!  He did not pack out and send ahead his computers because he needed them to work on and was suppose to be flying military. Then he can't take his medical kit on civilian flight!  He did sign over 1 of his computers to another team who will be coming in 2 weeks (we hope) But had to take his other one with him YIKES!  I mean it has a huge sticker on outside IntelN2.......and not to have his Medical bag very dangerous! That too he had to sign over to his command to bring along...but if they forget or he gets into something before they get there.....He was not happy about this deployment before Now...Wow!  He said he'd weather go back to Iran/Afghanistan... Which scares us all.  So been Very Stressed and worried lately. To the point of crying in Church again and BP ski high!..... Not only do I worry about him but my daughter and granddaughter in VA !  We've had the experience of the knock on the door...enuff said.

Comment by JayDee659 on October 15, 2019 at 8:01am

potterycat, I hate that feeling.  She's in good hands. Sit down with a cup of relaxing tea and write her a letter, that always helped me.

Whether or not we realize it, we worry about our girls constantly.  It doesn't matter if they're in the military or away at college. 

Oleander you'll love this: I had a dream Friday night that my sailor and I were out shopping when a terrible storm came up.  We hid in the basement of a department store, but the building was being torn apart by the severity of the storm.  My daughter told me that if she died she would send me purple butterflies when she got to heaven so I'd know she was safe.  The next morning I woke up thinking I'd call her, but decided it was better to wait.  Sure enough she happened to call me a couple hours later to check in :).  She assured me that if anything ever happened she'd send the purple butterflies, but that I had to do the same for her.

That's not meant to freak you out, just a reflection that as moms we always worry and we always have a solution.  You'll note that we were together and it was an act of nature, nothing military about this dream.  Oh yeah, and we escaped the storm because she had to go to the bathroom and we were safe in there.  Ha.

Comment by JayDee659 on October 15, 2019 at 8:00am

potterycat, I hate that feeling.  She's in good hands. Sit down with a cup of relaxing tea and write her a letter, that always helped me.

Whether or not we realize it, we worry about our girls constantly.  It doesn't matter if they're in the military or away at college. 

Oleander you'll love this: I had a dream Friday night that my sailor and I were out shopping when a terrible storm came up.  We hid in the basement of a department store, but the building was being torn apart by the severity of the storm.  My daughter told me that if she died she would send me purple butterflies when she got to heaven so I'd know she was safe.  The next morning I woke up thinking I'd call her, but decided it was better to wait.  Sure enough she happened to call me a couple hours later to check in :).  She assured me that if anything ever happened she'd send the purple butterflies, but that I had to do the same for her.

That's not meant to freak you out, just a reflection that as moms we always worry and we always have a solution.  You'll note that we were together and it was an act of nature, nothing military about this dream.  Oh yeah, and we escaped the storm because she had to go to the bathroom and we were safe in there.  Ha.

Comment by JayDee659 on October 15, 2019 at 7:49am

Oleander, next year is Halloween in Vegas.  :)

Comment by potterycat on October 15, 2019 at 7:29am

I woke up in a panic this morning.  It's been a week since I saw or heard from my girl.  This is the longest time I've spent with no communication with her since I found out about her.  I'm hanging in there but miss her a lot!


Congratulations to all the wonderful events!

Comment by Oleander on October 15, 2019 at 12:31am

Deanna, my daughter met one of her best Navy friends while she was cranking! They stay in touch to this day tho that girl struck for a different rate and ultimately moved on. 

Ohhhhhhhh ya Anna, we are in full swing. We missed the last 2 years of Halloween due to my husband's work and then the birth of our grandson last year but we're back! Our neighborhood is anticipating 2,000+ trick or treaters this year! How come you guys aren't here partying with us?.. Anna, JayDee, Spyder, B's Nuke??? : )

Comment by Anna on October 14, 2019 at 8:58pm

JaayDee,

Wonderful news!!!  So happy for them both, and what a beautiful picture!!

Deanna,

I'm sure she'll be kept busy - those sailors still need to eat.  But in all honesty she will probably spend her first few months cranking!!  That's where the new sailors spend time doing all kinds of odd jobs at their command.  Funny thing - I was stationed at NAS North Island and my cranking duty was at the galley!!!!  When my son went on the George Washington he was assigned to do laundry!!!! It's really nice that you have a connection with another Navy Mom on here whose daughter is on the same ship.  Make sure you look for her ship's facebook page!!!!!!

Oleander,

Are you guys doing your pirate ship this year????

Comment by JayDee659 on October 14, 2019 at 3:01pm

Mom of Deanna, they still seem to have plenty to do. My daughter is a Nuke and her group stays busy with reactor maintenance. Not sure what the CS group is doing but I'm sure there are a million things that we couldn't dream of! 

Comment by Deanna on October 14, 2019 at 2:58pm

JayDee659 That’s what my daughter said, they will be in dry dock for another two years. What do they do during that time?

Comment by JayDee659 on October 14, 2019 at 1:06pm

Mom of Deanna that's great!  It's an overwhelmingly large ship but you find your way around pretty fast.  As a momma you're in luck as they're in the ship yard getting regularly scheduled maintenance so there's not a deployment in your near future.

 

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