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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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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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Greetings Moms~

My 17 year old son has decided that he would like to join the Navy. My husband was Navy and is fine with this. I am too but are there questions that should be asked of the recruiter that are not the obvious ones. I'm not sure what to ask to get all the info I need. I'm not even sure I know what that is. Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Comment by abbyblue on November 12, 2013 at 11:31am

Remember the recruiter is getting paid to sell you on the navy ! Do Not take the first offer  shop around Like buying a car, you do not have take the first car deal they show you. do not let them in your house until you are sure the NAVY is what he wants.

Comment by Hello2u on November 12, 2013 at 12:25pm

A notebook is very useful, jot down all your questions.  I found "Questions to ask a Recruiter" which helped us alot ,plus my own questions I was concerned about.  Don't forget to see: navy site for particular jobs he may be interested in and what he'll need to get when he takes the asvab test.  Keep us posted! :) 

Comment by Laurah64 on November 14, 2013 at 9:03pm

Many thanks to all of you for your suggestions and assistance! abbyblue what did you mean by shop around? We only have one local recruiter in our area. Can you call others? Sorry if that's a silly question.  

Comment by abbyblue on November 14, 2013 at 11:03pm

go to other like army, marines ask them questions too you get a feel of which is best. Son picked the navy

 

 

Comment by BunkerQB on November 16, 2013 at 1:59am

Your son need to do a parallel study of joining any branch of the Armed Forces.  He is 17 - very young. He has time. Most boys do better when they are more mature. If your son is emotionally secured and confident, then he will be fine; however, if he has never been away from home and is extremely emotionally dependent on his family, then perhaps it's better to let him go to a community college or state college for a few years.  We want him to succeed. It's tragic to see these young guys get thrown into an environment that they are unprepared for. The Navy will train your son but the Navy is not going to babysit him.  Physical and emotional develop varies a great deal. Take everything into consideration. Don't get "sucked" into the patriotic glorified images you see on TV.  As I said earlier - he is 17, he has time.

Comment by Hello2u on November 16, 2013 at 1:01pm

Totally true,, we spoke to the Air Force and Navy, and my son waited til he was 21yr and got it all out of his system friends and fun,,some college courses,,studied the asvab for months and knew exactly what he wanted to do, and he's doing it! :) us navy diver, woohooooooo

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