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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!

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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

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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

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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 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 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 09/12/2014 TG 44 - 11 Divisions (281-290, and 944)

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This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on September 12, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 82
Latest Activity: Sep 20, 2014

WELCOME to PIR 09/12/2014! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP

CLICK MEforN4M's Community GuidelinesandOPSEC.

~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.

~N4M’s also has Community Guidelines just like any other social media.

~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.

~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:

• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:

• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.

Some Suggestions:

~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.

~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option

~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends"

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Comment by Karla on July 25, 2014 at 9:55am: Good Morning....Just wanted to say hi and excited to see you all soon :) Working on plans so thank you for all the great information.

Comment by Seabeeseanmom on July 25, 2014 at 9:14am: Hi CatMom509, thanks so much for this info. H/Inn 4-5 miles from base--we'll definitely use Sarge's service. I guess this needs to be set up closer to arrival?

Comment by diannep on July 25, 2014 at 9:14am: Good Morning All !

Comment by CatMom509 on July 25, 2014 at 3:05am: Seabesseanmom,

Maybe the Holiday Inn Express in Waukegan/Gurnee added a shuttle to the PIR since I was there last year in March 2013, but if they haven't, Sarge, who also does the Meet & Greet the evening before PIR, can pick you up using his shuttle service for $3.00 per person each way. That's the same price as the hotels that have a shuttle and they are all just local taxi services that run the families to and from PIR

His number is 847-212-0246. I used him even though I had rented a car. Easier for me to not deal with other drivers!

The Holiday Inn Express in Waukegan/Gurnee is a very nice, newer hotel (about 3 years old?) Their swimming pool is an indoor one. They also have a great hot serve yourself buffet breakfast which starts at 6:00 am on PIR morning!! Eat as quick as you can and have Sarge pick you up at 6:30 am or earlier. He will get you to PIR in 10 min - 15 min! There is also a McDonalds right next to this hotel...

Comment by Seabeeseanmom on July 24, 2014 at 11:56pm: Hi Diannep-I ended up booking at holiday inn express before seeing these replies about Navy Lodge. Hope I made an ok decision. I think they have shuttle to base. Hope so anyway.

Comment by Cajun Mom on July 24, 2014 at 10:47pm: My son PIR 9/12 Ship03 Div286

Comment by AshleyM09 on July 24, 2014 at 10:44pm: My husbands PIR is 9/12 (he entered 7/16) SHIP 04/DIV 288

Comment by BahH (11/284) on July 24, 2014 at 10:43pm: Mpjsmom we are also upstate about 30mins from rock hill. I also booked the Navy Lodge today after reading others recomendations.

Comment by diannep on July 24, 2014 at 8:39pm: Other hotels in addition to Navy Lodge, not quite as pricey as Residence:

Springhill Suites, Holiday Inn Express, Courtyard Inn....all close together, near Sarge's MeetandGreet held for you the night before PIR....4-5 miles from RTC. Call these hotels directly and ask for the Navy Graduation discount.