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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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Our letter came in yesterday! Glad to hear from our SR, but was a little disappointed to learn he wasn't on the Dec 16th PIR schedule. We received "the box" last week, it wasn't as hard as I thought it would of been. I think following the day by day boot camp activities has helped me deal with him leaving. I read it everyday 3-4 times, I guess you can say its therapeutic.

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We got a letter yesterday - it was dated 12/1/11 so they were 1/2 way through Hell Week and our son said it was going well.   I have not heard about the tee shirts but I can't wait to get one!   I don't have my red scarf yet but I'm working on it!   Have a good day all!

Isn't the unknown cruel??? Glad we have this site for info. So grateful!!!!!

Mee too!!   And yes - the uknown is so very cruel.  Just keep remembering - no news is good news

 :)

Hey ladies...we finally got 1 short letter and 1 long letter. It seems they are all doing pretty well. They passed Marlinspike and they are coming together much better than before. I think they have 3 div flags now. I am hoping the next 3 weeks are MUCH smoother for our SRs. It sure sounds like it. :)

 

Good morning everyone!  Gotta love our Division- they are rock'in those flags! Our boys are doing great!

I like this quote;

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.  ~Chinese Prover

Good morning everyone! Hoping your day is blessed with lists checked off and you still have energy at the end of the day... hahahaha!  Happy Monday!

Don't have my entire list checked off but I'm working on it :)   My mother-in-law got our red scarfs (and hats & gloves) to wear to PIR :)    I really need to start some baking SOON!

 

I still need to get my red scarf---plan to bake on Thursday with my best friend, her daughter-in-law and grandson! Should be a fun, messy time!  :)

Praying for our soon-to-be Sailors. <3  Hope you all have a great day!

Yipee!!! 16 more days!!!  WAY to much to do before then, but hopefully I will be so busy that it all things are checked off and time will fly. Now that I am hosting my hubby's side for christmas dinner I have more to do than I had planned on. Oh well- tis' the season to be frantic. hahahaha!

 I am so proud of our Division. They are coming together nicely and flags are abound. Great job to all our boys!

Question- Does everyone know where their son will "A" school?  Mine will head to San Antonio (Fort Sam) for HM

Have a Blessed day y'all!

Our son is going to A school in Great Lakes. He won't be taking leave until after A school. On a positive note, we will be spending Thurs Dec 29 to Monday Jan 2 with him whenever we can see him.

Our son is also going to A school in Great Lakes and - like the sailor mentioned above, he won't be taking leave until after A school.  We will be staying in Waukegan until 1/1/12 and will spend as much time as is possible with our son, too!  I cannot WAIT!   Time seems to be going by quicker now - thank goodness!  We got a letter yesterday and he still sounds great!   Said he was getting his 3rd hair cut and that it is pretty cold there -  but still no snow (as of 12/6/11 that is :).    Have a great day everyone!

 

My SR has A school in San Antonio- MAA

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