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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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Sheila Clark

Undesignated...What's Up With That?

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Undesignated...What's Up With That?

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

Members: 458
Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2022

Discussion Forum

Nothing Wrong with Undesignated Sailor!

Started by David B. Last reply by NavyBrat Oct 29, 2017. 55 Replies

So I am freaking out a bit!

Started by tracemc. Last reply by NavyBrat Oct 29, 2017. 4 Replies

Undes 2017

Started by Melissagonavy. Last reply by NavyBrat Oct 29, 2017. 8 Replies

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Comment by nvduhmom. on August 19, 2014 at 8:20pm
Mylas, have you had experience with A-pact? My SR is in boot camp now as an A-pact. I think I am getting concerned.
Comment by mauiMom808 on August 17, 2014 at 3:38am
What's a rate exam? My son just got his rating as an S-PACT Undesignated! I'm explaining to him as I'm reading everyone's input on this subject. He's interested in Cryptology/IT stuff. Is the rate exam for that difficult?
Comment by NavyBrat on August 1, 2014 at 6:32pm

Oddly, many of the sailors who went to "A" school quickly became members of the FTN club.

Ironically, after I beat 90 percent of the "A" school graduates on the rating exam, they still regarded me as "not their equal" because I had been undesignated. I do agree, they were not my equal. I was a self-made sailor; they were cry babies.

Comment by NavyBrat on August 1, 2014 at 6:18pm

To casper202006's sailor. I went in undesignated too, and chose a rating the department I was in didn't want me to study. After my 12 hr, 7 days a week normal shift, I studied 4-5 hours a night to get into the rating of my choice and when I wasn't studying, I was working ojt 4-5 hours at a time in the rating of my choice. It is your life. Take charge of it and hold your head up high because you are going to become a self-made sailor.

Comment by TropikalParadize on August 1, 2014 at 3:10am

Casper, I just saw your comment....soo sorry this has happened to you, and wanted to say THANK YOU for posting your honest opinion!  Its good to see a first hand account of what its like for an undes sailor...well, maybe not good, but definitely eye-opening....and my husband had the same exact experience as well, you are definitely not alone.  Like MyLAS said, hang in there, and keep counting down the days until you are out of there!  Feel free to friend me, message me, what have you, if you need an ear or want to chat. 

Comment by MyLAS (My Lips are SEALed) on July 29, 2014 at 5:38pm

mik3tn, I join the others in saying BZ, Sailor.  AND I agree that working hard, keeping the positive attitude, etc CAN move you from undes to a rate  IF you are on a "good" ship.  However, there are indeed "lesser" ships (I didn't say "bad") where options are FEW.   It's the needs of the navy (i.e. flight deck ONLY)  that sailors are offered.  It's been over a year now, my college grad sailor is still where he started and the ONLY options he gets to choose from for a new rate are ALL basic flight deck things.  Hmmmm, one would think a pre-med degree would be good for something?

Comment by Up&Down on July 28, 2014 at 4:34pm

mik3tn....congrats to your son!  Now it's time to join the group that your son is a part of.  But.....there is no reason to leave us. :(

And I do agree....positive attitude helps no matter how miserable your sailor may be and be the best at what you do!

Comment by Leach73 on July 28, 2014 at 4:11pm

mik3tn - Congrats to your Sailor and the best of luck to him!
Thanks for the positive encouragment! I hope the best for my Sailor!

Comment by CrackerjackMom on July 28, 2014 at 2:22pm

Congrates to your son!! And great advice.

Comment by MyLAS (My Lips are SEALed) on July 20, 2014 at 9:11am
Thanks Casper! Hang in there . You can do this . Know there are many others who have been dealt this unfair hand. When you get out, go to school and keep your kids AWAY from the navy
 

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