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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 9:35am on September 21, 2020, Chipmunk said…

Hi Bud Stepmom - Partyofseven shared the info we had, but be sure to look thru the messages in the comment section on the BC Mom group. 

There are many reasons why you may not have heard anything yet. If you never received the call after Battle Stations was completed he may not have had a calling card to do so, or one that was working. Or had to do something else. Also, they are not given their phones back until they are leaving RTC and being transported to their A school. - Be sure to look at those links I gave you, especially the one for RTC bootcamp. I am posting the main RTC home page which also gives links for the graduation video - it is possible that if 305 did not complete until this last week that they are in this weeks video. I have no idea.  https://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/

You can always send him a text message saying you were wanting an update as soon as he is able to let you know he has his phone back and can at least say hi. Do not overload his phone though, remember it has been turned off for a couple of months now. 

Keep us posted!

At 11:06pm on September 20, 2020, partyofseven said…

Hi Bud stepmom,

Welcome to our group. Here is some information that we found out from another mom. Hope this helps.

Division 305 graduated on 9/17/20. Just got a response from someone on a FB board. He posted a Division picture but I don’t want to steal the picture. He said that his SR does not have their phone back yet as they are still in a hold waiting to leave.

We all volunteer on here and help each other out let's us know if you have any questions. No question is ever dumb and someone will answer you. 

Welcome again!!!

At 3:57pm on September 20, 2020, Chipmunk said…

This is the link for RTC - Recruit Training Commands FB page. They have pictures posted there of the various groups. I have not looked for your Div. and they probably don't have them by Ship #.

https://www.facebook.com/NavyRecruitTrainingCommand/

At 3:48pm on September 20, 2020, Chipmunk said…

Bud Stepmom  - here is a link to information about the graduations from the RTC website - Div. 305 was slated to graduate 9/3

https://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/tg_grad_dates.html - only your SR is going to be able to give you updated information - but keep checking in the BC Mom group. 

At 1:09pm on September 20, 2020, B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) said…

Welcome to NAVYforMoms.com!   

We ask that our members not use a last name or email address in their Username - even if it differs from their Sailor's - so please head to “Settings” on the main page right away to set your new Username (be creative!) and add a profile image (no last names visible) to complete your Profile. Then - and this is important! - read these Community Guidelines and this Operations Security (OPSEC) Checklist, for the safety and privacy of all our Sailors.

Then jump right in!  Browse around the site and check out the groups and the information in their Discussion Forums.  

Join this group for boot camp moms, where you'll also find a group for your Pass in Review (graduation) date; and this one for PIR Reference Information.  

Get a head start during boot camp by joining groups for, and learning about, your Sailor's occupational specialty and "A" School; and later your Sailor's duty station and/or Navy ship and homeport. You can also join groups for your own state, region or home town and interests from getting ready for deployment to care package ideas.

Please say Hi when you join a group, and feel free to ask any and all questions - everyone was new once, and there is no "dumb" question.  

This site was created by the U.S. Navy just for you.  We look forward to getting to know you and your Sailor.  

Welcome to the NAVY family - we're so glad you're here!!

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