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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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My fiance is in class 14-10. I got to talk to him for about 5 minutes last night and he's already lost his voice! They have to yell everything at the top of their lungs! I'm in the Navy also and I'm so used to being the one who leaves! I'm the one who has to tell everyone else not to worry, so its really weird being on the other side of it!

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Just a shout out to all NFO parents and LO's - we've started an NFO Moms (and LO's) forum within OCS graduate moms. Stop in sometime!
Woohoo!! Welcome to the wonderful world of Candios!!!!!! Congrats to everyone!
It feels great to be able to talk to and text our LOs whenever. We've waited 9 long weeks for this day, and I can't believe that it's here. Twenty days and a wake up.
Congratulations to all the new Candios!
Bravo Zulu to all the newest Candios! To all their LO's it will be nice to hear from them by phone and text - but starting Sunday - they will be busier than they thought they would be...and probably doing with less sleep :-) Don't be surprised if you don't hear from them as often as you thought you would - they are now "in command", with resulting jobs and responsibilities that will keep them busy!
This is so true. I haven't have a conversation with James in over a week - just a short text now and then - very busy with the new Indocs.
James's comment about being a Candio, less sleep, but we have coffee. lol.
My oldest sent her sister 10 lbs of coffee from Seattle for the Candio lounge. I hear that its about 4 cups with each meal!
To all LOs of the class of 14-10 - Hold onto your hats. Your upcoming week or weekend in Newport will be a life altering experience. You will never look at your son or daughter, husband or wife the same again. I still can't believe how wonderful it was and how it has opened up such bright and promising futures. Congratulations to all of you.
Thank you. I know that all of us are very proud of our LOs. They have had to reach down deep into themselves to find the person that they have become through this OCS process. There are now the future of those that will carry on a tradition of caring for our country.

I know that I speak for all of the families and friends of the 14-10 class. Again, we are so proud of each and everyone of them.
Thanks, fourends. I'm incredibly proud of my LO; but then I knew that he had it in him to go through this. I can't wait to be in Newport and be at all the events. I keep praying to keep all the LOs healthy and strong.
Congratulations to 14-10 on your Candio and upcoming graduation/commissioning. It is the end of a journey that is rough, tough although so rewarding. Hats off to you and your LO! Enjoy every moment when you get to Newport, the experience is one of the most awesome experiences you will have as you have read from us in the past.

Best Wishes to all!

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