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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!

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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. 

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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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 leaves for bootcamp on November 22 from San Jose. Anybody else leaving on that date?

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my son leaves on the 7th from Louisville...  But I left for boot from San Jose back in 1988....  Hows the Bay Area.. Where is his MEPS???  How are you holding up? I have been crying everyday

 

Hi Calinavymom,  My son leaves Nov 22nd too!  From Bakersfield, CA.......Corpsman  How are you doing?  My son is ready and excited, I'm not there yet.

My son leaves November 22 from Salt Lake City....

Hi Navy Moms!

My son left today 11/22 from Columbia, SC.  I have already received his call saying he has arrived safely.  I look forward to getting to know all of you!!! 

My son made his call about 45 minutes ago saying he arrived safely at RTC.

***** The box arrived today.  Has anyone else received theirs? *****

Inside were his clothes (pants legs rolled up due to being measured for boots), backpack, iphone & charger, 2 plane boarding passes (he had to change planes in Atlanta), Discharge from Delayed Entry form, Confirmation of Enlistment, Orders to report to Navy Recruit Training Command, and a receipt from McDonalds (2 Big Macs...lol)  The only items he was able to keep were his wallet and the "Navy" Bible that I gave him for graduation.  I really, really miss Alexander.  I'm so proud of him and the decision he had made for his future.  Just keep telling myself that each passing day means I'm one day closer to seeing him. 

Hope all you Mom's are doing well !!!!

Hello!

We will be looking for the mom/wife/GF etc. who will be interested in creating the 01/27/2012 PIR group.

Someone who’s recruit arrived on 11/21 – possibly the 28th or 29th. (Not sure if the decided to “finish” the TG before Thanksgiving) So ladies, if it is something you think you'd be interested in...Friend me and send me a message.

Right now I am seeing some of the moms who’s recruit arrived at RTC on the 21st and 22nd are receiving ship/div numbers from their recruiters. One of you would be perfect for this!

Please remember that when I post dates of when your SR may PIR...it is not exact. I am basing it on the earliest reports and making an "educated" guess on the cutoff date for a TG. BC can be anywhere from 7.5 to 9 weeks. Your recruiter may have your recruit’s ship/division as early as 72 hours after arriving at BC. I will take this ship/div # for the purpose of starting a PIR group BUT please wait for the form letter that your recruit will send home to address your mail and send it. The address your recruiter gets oftentimes is incomplete or has too much information that is not necessary for the address.

Thank You!

Yes, I received the box today as well.  Pants rolled up as well.  Wallet, stationary  and Bible are the only things that he was able to take with him.   I'm missing my boys a lot today.......But very Proud of him as well

 

Has anyone who's SR arrived on 11/22 gotten the form letter yet? I got the box last Tues. but still no address. Ugggggg

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