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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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.

Members: 458
Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2022

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Comment by CrackerjackMom on September 10, 2014 at 7:22pm: JAS-WA congrats to your sailor, sometimes you have to be patient and let the system work. Always good to see the positive things on here.

Comment by MamaJa on September 10, 2014 at 4:34pm: Thanks JAS-WA for posting good news. It is hard to wait. My sailor is waiting patiently. Seems there has been a glitch at each phase. I'm hoping he gets a good position whatever he does. His orders were pulled 2 days before PIR. He waited in Illinois for a couple weeks. Now another glitch, maybe a recruiter error, is keeping him from classing up. He is on clean up duty and keeping a good attitude. He's a good kid, not letting himself get down.

Thanks for sharing good news. I'm trying to stay positive. 16 months doesn't sound bad when it could be years. Best Wishes

Comment by MyLAS (My Lips are SEALed) on September 10, 2014 at 2:17pm: Happy for you JAS-WA... Just don't understand why the Navy has such an inferiority complex about allowing bright, capable college grads to advance. instead, girls get pregnant on purpose so they can get shore duty. The command tells my son and others "you are the guys who picked on us in high school... now it's our turn".

Comment by MyLAS (My Lips are SEALed) on September 10, 2014 at 2:15pm: He must not be on the Dumpster where my son is. The only thing they will let anyone pick up is ABH. My son has tried for a rate since May of 2013. Only thing available is ABH.

Comment by JAS-WA on September 10, 2014 at 10:23am: Hi everyone. I joined this group when my sailor left the submarine program and went surface undesignated in May 2013. I've appreciated your wisdom for the last 16 months. My son learned yesterday that he got picked up for the rate he was working to get. Our whole family is ecstatic. I wish you and your sailors fair winds and following seas.

Comment by HuffyMom23 on September 7, 2014 at 3:50pm: Grace - I am not sure if you got the answer to your question. My son did about 3 weeks of training and then was shipped out to Norfolk. From what I can remember he was on hold for awhile before he started his training. It wasn't too bad though. Hope this helps.

Comment by grace on September 2, 2014 at 11:47am: Can anyone tell me what the school is for undesignated in great lakes right after PIR?

Comment by NavyBrat on August 31, 2014 at 2:18pm: CodysMom. The best advise you can give your son is hold his head up high and do a job he can be proud of later in life.

In the fleet it isn't who you are, its who you know.

Comment by NavyBrat on August 31, 2014 at 2:13pm: There are two Navies. The land based Navy with its typical military P&C, and then there is the fleet.

Some sailors arrive in the fleet as Petty Officers after graduating their "A" school and in the fleet sailors call them "Rent-A-Crows"; their attitude is similar to Ensigns straight out of the Naval Academy; it needs adjusting.

Occasionally, you'll meet a Chief Petty Officer who has spent his entire naval career on shore until he/she was sent to your ship because he/she needed sea time to qualify for the next step in his/her career. That's best described as "Rent-A-Crow on steroids". There is probably a mathematical formula to compute the difference between the Chief's attitude versus the regular "Rent-A-Crow's" attitude. Usually, it is so bad it cannot be adjusted and his/her sea time will be short.