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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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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CS (Culinary Specialist) Moms

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CS (Culinary Specialist) Moms

The heart and soul of the Navy-the cook! Let's swap stories and exchange info about our loved ones being a CS in the Navy!

Members: 309
Latest Activity: Apr 22, 2021

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Boot camp

Started by Amanda Jan 30, 2019. 0 Replies

Arrived at bc on June 13-CSS

Started by Lea (SHIP 11 DIV 242). Last reply by Lea (SHIP 11 DIV 242) Jun 22, 2017. 2 Replies

My Bird can Cook

Started by My Little Bird. Last reply by disneygirl64 May 10, 2017. 6 Replies

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Comment by Yasminie5 on January 11, 2015 at 7:24pm
I hope your son is ok.
Comment by HuskyMom on January 10, 2015 at 11:54pm

BTW Yasminie5 - My older Sailor is stationed in Norfolk.

Comment by HuskyMom on January 10, 2015 at 11:53pm

Hi Yasminie5. My son who is at Ft Lee graduates soon. He was supposed to graduate a week earlier, but ended up sick in the hospital so got pushed back. They got orders yesterday, but his are just for his next school

Comment by Yasminie5 on January 10, 2015 at 10:21pm
Hi divontesMom. My son gust finished a school in for lee. Graduated on the 9th. We were there. Did you go. I have pics. Who is your sailor. And where is she stationed
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Comment by HuskyMom on December 9, 2014 at 6:08pm

That's awesome therevbev!  InquiringMind, yes, they took good care of him!  I am so devastated about him! I am sure all of the SRs that were there were pretty shaken up. And scary for parents whose children are there or about to go. With my son just finishing 2 weeks prior, it really hit home for me. I feel so terribly for his family & loved ones.

Comment by therevbev on December 9, 2014 at 4:11pm

I am doing a happy dance since I just got a ship-to-shore call from the "CS of the Month" on the USS Carl Vinson!!!  He really needed that kind of recognition as he's been feeling overused and overlooked. We could not be prouder of his hard work during this long and dangerous deployment.

Comment by InquiringMind on December 9, 2014 at 10:35am

Well I sure hope the Navy is taking good care of your son and the rest of our sons and daughters.  I'm absolutely sick about the young man who passed away at Great Lakes and his poor family.  What a terrible tragedy.  My own son is there right now, he just did PIR the day before Thanksgiving, and he sounds pretty shaken up by it too.  

Comment by HuskyMom on December 8, 2014 at 2:31pm

I've heard that too. But we didn't get calls like some other parents do. I have heard they all do get cross trained on each other's jobs. When they learn all jobs they earn their dolphins. But I think that just means they understand what everyone does. (not 100% sure that's right) because obviously  not just anyone is going to be able to step in & do a job that someone else took a year or more to train for like the nukes. Thanks, he's definitely feeling better. Had to have 2 IVs on Wednesday. Said he felt much better after that. He wasn't going to find out until this morning whether he could start again today. So hopefully no news is good news right now.  

Comment by InquiringMind on December 8, 2014 at 2:19pm

Thanks, DivontesMom!   I've heard various things about working on subs, such as all submariners are "cross-trained" to do multiple jobs, and that there are "background investigations" done on everybody who works on subs because of the top secret nature of the work.  Also that it is hard to get details about sub-related things due to security concerns.  I don't want to pester my son about it right now because he's just starting out, plus it would be better if he figures it out for himself without "Mommy" intervening.  But still, Mommy wants to know (plus, I think it would be uber cool if he was a submariner)!  Hope your son gets better soon and back on track with A School!!

 

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