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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

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 son left for boot camp on 2/7...anyone else on here with same departure date?

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I'll be looking for that letter. It is interesting how we all get things at different times, some people don't seem to have got their boxes yet, and we got ours on day 2...guess we should get used to this:) Thanks again for all the info.
Neaveh81 - The letter is not in the box.  Mine came four days after the box but it could take longer depending on where you live.
Check into Amtrak it is alot cheeper than flying.
Monica..thanks for the suggestion. i didn't think of that!
Yeah!! Glad you got your letter!!! It's so exciting to get some information isn't it?
We are on the same ship.  I got the letter and my son in also ship 11 div 120.  I think ProudMomma is also ship 11 but a different div.  So good to get some info and those few handwritten lines.
Mysailorson~Is he graduating on 4/1 also? I was checking out flights. They are very expensive :( I wish I know whether or no he is grad & go or is gonna have liberty. it would make this so much easier to plan things :(

Mysailorson,  my son is ship 4 division 806. I'm glad you got your letter!! Yeah!!!!

So have u seen any others with sailors in ship 4/ div 806? so far I've just seen the two of us

For your convenience - here is a list of groups formed already associated with the PIR dates. You can find more lists under FORUM: How To Do Stuff on N4M.

http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/groups-listed-by-pir-date

VERY HELPFUL, THANKS. I'm such a newbie to N4M...it takes me forever to navigate around this site...good thing I'm not the sailor in the family:)

Don't sweat it. It took me awhile too, even though I am very computer savvy!  This site is not the easiest to learn. That was one of the reasons I compiled the lists. The are a number of topics under the HOW TO DO STUFF ON N4M that will help you learn to navigate this site. Start with this BLOG.

http://www.navyformoms.com/profiles/blogs/welcome-new-members

then proceed to these topics:

http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/uploading-a-photo-adding-a

http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/a-few-how-to-and-dont-forge...

http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/private-messaging-posting

http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/your-profile-settings-how-to-1

some of the discussion I posted last year but almost all of the info is still applicable.

Good luck to your son/daughter. Please thank him/her for us.

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