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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
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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:
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:
**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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- Graduation Info
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Calling all moms of "children" starting bootcamp 7/8/15
I am so very thankful to have found the NAVYForMoms website and Facebook page. Without it, I would probably be curled up in a ball with three or four empty tissue boxes strewn around me! I am so very proud of my son...this is all just so unfamiliar!
I would really like to get to know other moms with sons or daughters who started boot camp on 7/8/15...as a single mom, I could certainly use the support, reassurance, and guidance!
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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Yes, there are fB pages for the PIR dates and someone will usually post them on the main page of this group and also in the PIR groups. Be very aware of PERSEC when you join a group on fB or anywhere on the web.
Check out https://www.facebook.com/NavyRecruitTrainingCommand. The PAO posts random photos randomly. The PAO does not usually identify the division/s photoed, so you have to look through all of them. There is no guarantee that your recruit will be photoed, but it is fun to look at the photos and get an idea of what is happening at the RTC. They do not have pages that follow a particular division.
There are groups on N4M for each of the PIR dates that will allow you to connect with others with loved ones training with your recruit and there will be discussions in the PIR group for each of the pairs of brother divisions and the 900 division once all of the divisions in the TG are known.
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Permalink Reply by Steph Proud AG Mom on
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still waiting on the box. hope it comes today. Waiting for the address too. I am figuring on PIR to either be 9/4, or 9/11. My daughter arrived on a wednesday, and she was on hold for a week, making her PIR a week later than I figured. so you never know. Holding up ok as long as I don't talk about anything emotional... that'll come with time. Hang in there! I promise it's get easier. before you all know it, you will be walking around with a huge smile, just counting down til your first hugs with your sailors....
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Permalink Reply by 530BBMom on
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New photos on the U.S. Naval recruit command Facebook page of our new recruits. I just spent an hour scanning photos for a glimpse of my recruits face, with tears streaming from my face!! Ugh
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Permalink Reply by Stephanie (Trents proud mother) on
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I got a Fed Ex door hanger today.
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It was only a stupid cell phone he was suppose to donate :(. I have officially hit that melt down day. I am loosing my mind.
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Recruits can donate clothes, but they can't donate cell phones and also can't trash a cell phone.
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Permalink Reply by Colton'sMom on
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That is soooo exciting, Sandra!!! I looked through those 135+ pictures and didn't see him. I read that the PR person had to delete over 60 pictures because so many recruits were acting "unprofessional" in them. (Not sure of the military term.) Anyway, I hope it wasn't my son. I can't imagine any recruits acting like that...aren't they afraid of PT or other repercussions? Kids these days. SIGH
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Good Morning BC Moms,
Got word yesterday from my recruits GF that the Box was received by his father. Which means the letter is soon to follow. I spent majority of yesterday scanning each and every picture that was posted on the US Navy Recruit Training Commands FB page, with tears flowing heavy from my eyes. Tears of pure joy and a bit of jealousy of those that had found their recruit. I didn't see mine.
I was impressed to see that the issued(Birth Control) glasses weren't as bad as we had thought they would be. They actually look nice!!
Its great to see the recruits smiling and enjoying some laughs among all the "drilling" and "shouting" that they endure.
I am concerned though of one thing, reading the OPSEC on this page it asks not to list the recruits last name, yet on the FB page people were tagging their recruit and listing his full name???? is this ok?
I'm looking forward to meeting more moms that may have the PIR date 9/4 or 9/11.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!! Hooyah!!
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Yes, tagging recruits on fB is a PERSEC concern (it's not an OPSEC concern in BC), but people do it. Don't do it to increase PERSEC.
Speaking of PERSEC and pics, check your My Page.
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I didn't see my son either, 530BBMom. It was great to see all of them, though. Was I the only one shocked at how YOUNG they all looked??? My son has the BCGs, too! I was glad, because it made scanning all of those photos easier! Funny that those glasses do not look much different that his regular "hipster" glasses!! I can't believe that people tagged their recruits. lemonelephant shared the security pages with me right away when I logged into this site. It is pretty clear on what not to do.
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I just want to do everything correct and not disrespect what the Navy has had in place for years. I want my recruit to know I'm extremely proud of him. And I cannot wait to get the letter and first contact. I hope to meet some of the navy moms too once in GL. Hooyah!
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I LOVE your tattoo!!!
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