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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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

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**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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OCS Graduate Moms

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For those who have graduated from Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI or who are currently attending there.

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Latest Activity: Apr 11

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Comment by egbot on May 26, 2010 at 7:36pm: communication is sporadic, Debbie B. It's like boot camp for officers. I've been told no news is good news and that is absolutely correct. They don't have much of an opportunity to call, so make sure you write and give him a phone card with about 1,000 minutes because the pay phone eats up 35 minutes automatically with each call he makes!

Comment by Debbie B. on May 26, 2010 at 6:07pm: My son has been accepted to OCS for the end of August. This will be a change as he has been at Nuke School in Goose Creek so I am interested in learning what OCS school is like and where he will be, for how long, can you communicate with them or is it like Boot Camp?

Comment by egbot on May 26, 2010 at 12:16am: Oops! I'm sorry. You know, four weeks ago, I didn't know what LO was and I thought PT was Physical Therapy - duh! My husband corrected me, like it was something I should have known all my life. DI is Drill Instructor and then there are a lot more that I still don't know! Don't even ask me what my thoughts were when my son told me he had to wear the "poopy suits" the first week of OCS! I'm fairly new to this as well!!

Comment by Matt'sMom on May 25, 2010 at 7:57pm: Hi,
I am really in the dark on all these acronyms. LO, PT?? Sorry I am so dumb, but I have no military experience at all. LO-loved one?

Comment by egbot on May 25, 2010 at 7:48pm: I actually started a group for the families of 18-10. You might want to go into that group for more information.

Comment by egbot on May 25, 2010 at 7:46pm: My son went into H for an injury. He was able to call more often. When he went into PT, he stopped calling. The he called once and said that with luck, he'll go into 19-10 and we won't hear from him for a while! We get a bit spoiled when they go into H!! My LO says the guys from 18 are great and as of now, there are several 18's that are going into 19, which apparently, isn't very unusual! Good luck to you and your LO!

Comment by Matt'sMom on May 25, 2010 at 7:41pm: Yes, he was there for bronchitis and sinusitus. 2 weeks of phone calls and now nothing. I am going crazy!! He said all the guys from 18 like it.

Comment by egbot on May 25, 2010 at 7:38pm: Hi Matt'sMom! My son was in 18-10 and went into H. He's hoping to roll into 19-10! Did your son go from H into 18-10?

Comment by Matt'sMom on May 25, 2010 at 7:23pm: Does anyone have a kid in 18-10? My son just moved into that class.

Comment by rokymtns on May 22, 2010 at 1:53pm: My son also added my name to his checking account so I could take care of his banking. Another good idea is to get his important online passwords for his bank accounts, etc. written down. Most of the younger generation store this info in their cell phone and iPODs and they don't have access to them while at OCS. We also did a power of attorney which may be overkill, but we figured it may come in handy down the road during deployment, etc. I have used the power of attorney twice believe it or not. I have a PO box and they wouldn't let me forward his mail to my box without it. Apparently that is a law after 9-11 as terrorists use PO boxes.