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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.

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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:

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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).  

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**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

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Moms of Aviation Rescue Swimmers

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Moms of Aviation Rescue Swimmers

Members: 318
Latest Activity: Aug 18, 2021

This group is for family members and friends of Aviation Rescue Swimmers, or sailors in training to be Aviation Rescue Swimmers

Discussion Forum

The Path of a Rescue Swimmer

Started by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours). Last reply by Swimmermom May 28, 2019. 53 Replies

My Rescue Swimmer is at RTC...PIR 11/9/18

Started by LittleShipMemories Oct 11, 2018. 0 Replies

Confused

Started by Seahawk. Last reply by Seahawk Aug 4, 2017. 2 Replies

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Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on April 24, 2014 at 12:09pm

OMG yalllll     for those of you who are at various phases of this pipeline...   I want you to know that when your child deploys it is harder than the training part of this....   i have been a blubbering mess for 10 months and mostly these few days...  an idiot... crazy woman... cause my boy is HOME after 10.5 months...   I can not lie....    this is a hard life for family...  but if they love what they are doing as my son does then its okay...  today I celebrate my boy being on American waters finally... and home to soil tonight...   my emotions are crazy...  i am telling yall this because one day you will be in my shoes and you will remember... and at that time....  i will be here for you cause I understand it.....   and there are others also here who don't come on much who understand it.... the training pipeline is arduous but the deployment is the toughest...  so love yall and thank you for your love and prayers for my B...  I will see him in 2.5 weeks

Comment by Jodi-alumni Ship 4 on April 24, 2014 at 7:57am

Lydia, I can't remember exactly how I got started getting the photos but I think I went on navy.mil and clicked on the "subscribe to Navy News service" at the top on the right above the search box. I also get news from time to time from that also.

Comment by Jodi-alumni Ship 4 on April 24, 2014 at 7:47am

airmom10, honestly we didn't do anything for him (am I a horrible mom?). I think he was just happy to have us there for the graduation.

Comment by airmom10 on April 23, 2014 at 4:39pm

Jodi - my son is in FRS in San Diego and will be graduating at some time in the next few months - can you tell me if there is any special small gift that is usually given at this time?  We got him a coin for boot camp graduation - after that we kind of forgot about those things, but I think this is a special graduation.  Any ideas?

Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on April 23, 2014 at 3:20pm

Jodi.....   can you send me the link... hahah I am on sooo many but that might be one that I am not on???  thank you so much for thinking of me!!!!!

Melissa... ahhhhh   thank you so much...  I think that the hardest job is being a mom or wife of military.. we try to stay up beat... think positive.... send TONS of care packages... but it takes its toll for sure...   so I am so happy to be here to help any mammas and wives not just through the pipeline... but deployment also -----    we think Boot Camp is the ultimate Roller Coaster... nope....  it goes on and on...  

OH and as far as FRS grad....   Im with Melissa...  she is right on it....  sooo many things depend on their grad...  from classes sizes to pilots...  BUT it will happen... patience!!!  arrrrg....  then after that.....  WINGS and even that can take so much time again depending on so many factors!!!  hang in their yall....  xoxoxoxoxo

Comment by Melissa on April 22, 2014 at 7:44pm

Jodi, I hope your son finally made it over the bridge - my parents and brother got stuck in traffic on it once for more than 2 hours!  My son said they mostly take the ferry across the bay when they go into San Diego - $10 round trip and it's only about a mile walk to base from the dock. 

Yeah Lydia!  So glad your boy is almost home.  I am nearly as excited for you to see him as you are yourself! 

Proudmama - I don't know why the small size classes for FRS; there were no drop outs in my son's class.  It might have something to do with the number of flight hours they have to finish before graduation - each swimmer needs so many flights and there are only so many pilots and helo's to go around. 

Comment by Jodi-alumni Ship 4 on April 22, 2014 at 1:39pm

So happy for you Lydia!. I'm sure you have been missing him.  Do you get the Navy photos of the day? They show a lot of Sierra's flying. I don't recall if I saw his ship listed or not but  it's cool to see what they are doing.

Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on April 22, 2014 at 11:21am

woooooohooooooooooo   busy busy in here.... wooow  !   Hey I had to go back 2 pages to catch up...  sorry if I missed anything...  the only thing that caught my eye was the A school discussion......       A school is always done in Pcola...  once they grad A school then they THEN will be assigned to a base for their Romeo and Sierra training and after that, when they graduate they are assigned to their actual Helo Squadron...    Congrats on all the achievements and everyone moving forward... wooow so great!

Yup my boy will be home on _________... the helo squads and marines disembark first the day before... then the ship will be in the next morning....   so close I know they can all taste it!  I can not WAIT to see that boy of mine in a few weeks!!!

Comment by Jodi-alumni Ship 4 on April 22, 2014 at 8:26am

Melissa, as far as my son's class, they were phasing out the Bravo (which was a Romeo that flew in helos with older equipment). I don't remember but I think their class only had 3 in it to start with. The commander told us at the graduation they really pushed the boys a lot harder and faster than usual to get them through and were very happy with how well they did with all the information they needed to learn.

Comment by proudmama on April 22, 2014 at 7:03am

Melissa, Jodi- why are the FRS graduations so small? Attrition rate? Do the classes start small?  I agree that Coronado is beautiful!! It was so hard to leave when I was out there last summer:( I'm hoping my son will eventually be stationed out there!

 

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