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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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Undesignated...What's Up With That?

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A place for Moms of Undesignated Sailors to share concerns and support each other.

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Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2022

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Comment by ProudMomof4 on October 15, 2010 at 1:38pm: My son said he got his orders - he is on a ship, and I guess he gets to stay in SD. Are we allowed to say the name of the ship on here?

Comment by LynB on October 13, 2010 at 8:12pm: Alrighty - kid has graduated from GL Seamanship school and is on his way to Coronado CA to join Seabee Battalion 1. He thinks he'll be doing base repairs for the rest of his enlistment unless he manages to distinguish himself in some way. He did at least get Distinguished Military Graduate and a challenge coin. Ready to see how the rest of this adventure as undesignated turns out :-)

Comment by sjr23 on October 9, 2010 at 1:25am: Thanks, Julie, for sharing what you do know and Lori, we'll have to stay in touch. Our sailors will be serving together with the same job status. I'm glad you responded!

Comment by lori_proud mom on October 6, 2010 at 1:23am: My son's PIR is 10/8/10, and his orders are for USS Ashford. He is supposed to report 11/8/10 to Little Creek. We are also looking for any information.

Comment by sjr23 on October 4, 2010 at 11:09am: Well, we got our orders. My son is headed to Little Creek, VA, next week to be on the USS Ashford. Anyone else on this ship? Or know much about it?

Comment by LynB on October 2, 2010 at 11:10pm: Thanks for that Arwen. I think we all want the assurance that it's not the end of the world.

RE: IT career - my son went to college to major in Computer Science and realized after 2 years that the last thing he really wanted to do with his life was become a code jockey. He ended up graduating with a BS in History - BS because of all the math and science he took while studying computer science. Now of course, history is not going to pay the bills as well as IT would, but better to figure that out early on rather than later when you're too invested in that career path to make a change.

Japan sounds wonderful too - what an opportunity for your son. And as my son said, "I may be chipping paint the next two years, but at least I'm doing it in San Diego and getting paid to be there" :-)

Comment by ladypinkhatter on October 2, 2010 at 3:45pm: Arwen, I sit here smiling and inspired as I read your story and hoping that my daughter gets that same clarity and peace as your son got....she's off to a good start. Thank you for sharing with me and have a great weekend.

Comment by Arwen on October 2, 2010 at 1:42pm: My son is an undes by choice. He was in IT school and washed out, not because of low grades, but because he literally ran out of time. He had less than a day of work remaining when he hit the final deadline. Two hours later and he would be an IT working in Washington DC (that's where his orders were going to take him).

When he was washed out, his initial reaction was stung pride and disappointment, but he realized quickly that it was an escape, not a punishment. He wants to keep computers as a hobby to enjoy, not a job to be stuck at. He also wasn't looking forward to a desk job in a high-stress atmosphere. They offered him two other schools, Yeoman and Aircraft Electronics, but he still wanted something more physical, SeaBee, or Gunner's Mate, etc.

As a mom, I agree with him. Getting IT is a bit of a status thing, so I was proud of him, but from the beginning I had my doubts about IT as an appropriate place for him, and his other choices were equally unsuited to him. So it wasn't hard for me to accept undes in the same spirit he did - as an escape, not a demotion.

So he was thrilled when his next set of orders had him going to a ship in Japan. It helps that he is also a bit Japan obsessed. He's been into anime, manga and other Japanese pop culture for most of his life. This is his wildest dream come true.

Comment by ladypinkhatter on October 2, 2010 at 9:42am: Thanks Arwen....I too am a "research queen"...lol...I hope people realize that the previous stereotype of Undes have changed. Our recruiter says that the ASVAB scores to even get in the Navy are changing (going up). There's a whole generation graduating from high school with no idea what they want to do with their lives and it doesn't mean they are "problem" kids or not "smart" enough.

My recruit is a good kid, working since she was 16, has work ethics, wanted to be a Pastor (not a whole lot of opportunity in this profession for young adults), and has the loving support of family, friends, and church. I hope this opportunity will encourage my recruit to find out what she (else) wants and loves to do and go for it and not be moved nor concerned with "social status". Now with this information I can help her stay focused.

Comment by msmom on October 2, 2010 at 2:19am: Arwen, thank you for being so straight forward. You answered many of my ???? I more understand why my son is feeling so blue after his med drop from buds.