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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:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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Sonar Technician - Surface
Members: 197
Latest Activity: Oct 27, 2019
Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center Website:
http://www.cmwc.navy.mil/default.aspx
OPSEC Points :
Don’t discuss current or future destinations/ ports of call/deployment bases .
Don’t discuss current or future operations or missions.
Don’t discuss current or future dates and times of exercises or missions.
Don’t discuss readiness issues and numbers.
Don’t discuss specific training equipment.
Don’t discuss people’s names and operations.
Don’t speculate about current or future operations.
Discussion Forum
STG path for first year or two
Started by molly86ag. Last reply by abuon18 Mar 3, 2019. 3 Replies 1 Like
A & C School in San Diego!
Started by abuon18. Last reply by ellen0502 Jun 25, 2018. 10 Replies 0 Likes
Moving during school
Started by JT. Last reply by JT Jun 30, 2017. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by Melissa (Tucson) on March 6, 2009 at 11:32pm
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Usually the LONGEST they go out for is 6-8 months. My son will be returning soon from a 6 month deployment and will stay ashore for 3-4 months. He'll then have a 2 - 3 deployment and back in for 3 - 4 months and then another longer deployment. We have 2 wars going on, the ships are very busy.
STG stands for Sonar Technician - Surface. STS stands for Sonar Technician - Submarine.
SN stands for Seaman. (Remember in boot camp he was a SR (Seaman Recruit). After school he'll be a SA (Seaman Apprentice). My son is an STG3 (Sonar Tech, 3rd Class Petty Officer).
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"Sonar fundamentals, basic operator and analyst skills/Group instruction. After "A" school, Basic Acoustic Analyst course (6 weeks) and a sonar operator course (6-8 weeks), STGs are assigned to surface ships as sonar equipment operators. During a 20-year period in the Navy, STGs spend about 60 percent of their time assigned to fleet units and 40 percent to shore stations in the United States".
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Comment by Dianne on February 14, 2009 at 1:55pm
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That's ok Donna, my hubby thought I was dumb for not knowing that anyway. LOL
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Diane, you should ask Donna about being on hold! I think with time it does get easier to let them go. My sailor used to call us every night, but now its about 5 times a week. I guess it's good that he's weaning us slowly, cuz when he's deployed we wont hear from him much. What helped me a lot is when I had a conversation with him and asked him if he was happy, and he really is happy. So if he is happy, I am happy. I miss my baby everyday! But it does get easier.
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Welcome Diane!! We are here to help! Even though I still ask many questions myself!
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OHHHHHH Thanks, Marla. I get it now. I'm still a newbie here, my son has hit his 6 month anniversary.
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Donna, what is CROW?
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Happy Birthday NavyForMoms.com!!!! One year today!
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Wow Donna, I don't know how you do it, once was hard enough for me!
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Congrats Donna!! I know it's been a long time in coming. My sailor had one month betweek A school and ops. He "graduates" from ops on the 20th and on to his ship. He is really looking forward to it. Some current sailors from his ship have been coming over to his base and hanging out with him. I'm thrilled he is getting to know some of the other sonar people!! Exciting times for all of us!! Oh and our sailors too LOL
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