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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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ALUMNI OF PIR 10/17/2014 TG 49 - 11 Divisions (325-334, and 949)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on October 10, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 69
Latest Activity: Nov 19, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 10/17/2014! 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
~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"
Discussion Forum
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 329 and 330 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by 1gxxyxg44790o Nov 19, 2014. 49 Replies 0 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Oct 15, 2014. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 12 (USS Triton) Divisions 333 and 334 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Becca40 Oct 15, 2014. 30 Replies 6 Likes
^^^^ BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by diannep Oct 13, 2014. 1 Reply 3 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 949
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ⚓ darsatm ⚓ Oct 13, 2014. 12 Replies 4 Likes
Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 331 and 332 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Geosmom Oct 9, 2014. 24 Replies 1 Like
Ship 03 (USS Hopper) Divisions 325 and 326 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by 3bsmom Oct 6, 2014. 46 Replies 7 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by AntsMom on September 1, 2014 at 3:12pm
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Thanks...I will start calling now.
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Comment by CatMom509 on September 1, 2014 at 3:09pm
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AntsMom,
The recommended hotels are Navy Lodge (book under your SR's name), Courtyard by Marriot, Residence Inn, Springhill Suites, Holiday Inn Express, and it looks like Candlewood Suites too. The last 5 are all in Waukegan/Gurnee, only 10 min away from RTC. Book with the hotels directly and ask for the Navy Graduation rate. No deposit necessary to book a hotel, so you should actually book ASAP!!
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Are most hotels around the base decent? Anybody know where not to stay? I would like to book for the weekend soon.
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Comment by gretamae3 (nuke mom) on September 1, 2014 at 2:56pm
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Chris92 my son crying too. It took a toll on me
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Hello All!!
"Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him."
Psalm 34:8
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Comment by CeCe on September 1, 2014 at 1:19pm
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diannep, Thanks, I ended up booking Holiday Inn Express. I think that will work well for us. Can't wait until graduation 10/17!!! Wooo Hooo!!!
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Comment by Luce1960 on September 1, 2014 at 11:11am
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Thanks Greta. I know that she is VERY STRONG and that is what is keeping me going.
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Luce and it is to be expected. It is ok to cry. It is ok to be scared. I know this. We got to remember though out children are in no danger!!! That's what I am focusing on!!! Yes they are homesick, yes they are probably scared at times, but wow what a future they are going to have!!!!! Luce I added you as a friend and will give you my number. We will cry together anytime and give each other strength and encouragement!!! I made it through my first week on here private messaging a mom. Without her I may have went insane lol. I'm slowly finding strength!!! Right now I have it and am more then happy to lend you some!!
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Greta. I am in exactly the same mind frame. cried in my sleep all night.
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Happy Labor Day !!!! I'm feeling better today. I've prayed and know I have to stay positive. It was just hearing my son cry that got me so worked up. Him telling me numerous times he loved and missed me also got to me. I am a very strong woman and I have seemed to have lost my strength lately. I know he is safe and that is the most important thing!!! I know I will shed more tears and I will have more weak moments..... I'm a mom that comes with the territory right!?!?! Thank you all for being here for me when I am weak. When I feel like my world has caved in, when it's hard to take that breath, when I feel like I have no one or on where else to turn to. That moment when I feel like going to bed and not waking up until June 16th when it's time to drive to IL. I APPRECIATE ALL THE SUPPORT!!!!
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