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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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Super hard leaving him at Meps but his swear in was very neat to see. Love that we got a certificate of the swear in. Already framed and up. How do I know if he is in P-holding or P-Days. It's really hard not knowing what is going on. His recruiter gave me his address already so I have sent a letter everyday so far. Just waiting to get my first letter from him.

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My fiance arrived on the same day! I am anxiously awaiting any new from him :(

My son arrived 9/10. No form letter or address yet. You got a certificate? We didn't. ..
My son left on 9/10 and we didn't receive a certificate. What does that mean, we did receive a letter from fed ex that they tried to do a delivery but not home.

It doesn't mean anything. Some MEPS give a certificate when a recruit is sworn in. Be sure to sign and leave the note from FedEx on your door or you can sign and date your own note for the FedEx driver to leave "the box" or you can go get it.

I don't think all Meps give one. We were lucky. I'm still waiting for my form letter and box. Want to start planning our trip. Anyone in Ship 3 Division 357?

Not yet; form letters through Division 352 are coming in, so you have a few more days. Ten days after arrival is average for the form letter. PIR should be 11/07/2014 for that division. We encourage loved ones to wait on the form letter and not get the address from the recruiter as you did, so most with loved ones who arrived with your recruit do not know the division yet.

My son is division 352 and I received the letter yesterday.  PIR is scheduled for 10/31!!

PLEASE change your Username and the URL to your My Page. It is not good for you to be posting your email address for EVERYONE with access to the web to see every time that you post a comment or reply. Check your My Page for a comment from me about that and/or go to OPSEC and PERSEC (Making Changes to Your Profile) (clickable link) and make at least changes 1, 2, and 3.

My son left on 9/10 too. The box arrived today, but no letter or address yet. No certificate either, but the ceremony was very nice, especially since there were only four swearing in that day.

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