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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:

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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ALUMNI OF PIR 05/15/2015 TG 27 - 7 Divisions (177-182 and 927)

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ALUMNI OF PIR 05/15/2015 TG 27 - 7 Divisions (177-182 and 927)

This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 05/15/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 53
Latest Activity: Apr 9, 2016

 

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N4M's Community Guidelines
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OPSEC.

~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 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 927

Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Proud Mexican mom Apr 9, 2016. 20 Replies

PERTINENT PIR TIPS!

Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Apr 21, 2015. 4 Replies

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Comment by diannep on April 1, 2015 at 7:35am

Good Morning!

Comment by CatMom509 on April 1, 2015 at 4:50am

(((HUGS))) to you, diannep!!

Comment by CatMom509 on April 1, 2015 at 4:48am

momstuy,

I know what you mean.  When my Sailor daughter decided she was joining the Navy (after researching all the other branches also), there was no changing her mind--even with an offer to do something else making more money.  She was studied her START guide and make a copy for me to help her study, she ran at the park on mornings, faithfully went to the gym to get into even better shape (she was already healthy and fit). We went to her DEP meetings with her and were the only family at the meetings.  She told me she had chosen her own path. She is doing just awesome as an IT and is married now to a Marine IT. BUT I also feel like she is missing from our family.  Right now she is across the country from us~~  (((HUGS)))

Comment by diannep on March 31, 2015 at 11:32pm

lomom:  As far as sending stamps, they could use those.  They can buy their stamps there at the NEX, but it saves them money.  Same is true if you want to mail them a phone card.  Saves them money!  They are issued a Supply Card that they can use to purchase supplies at the NEX (cost of the card comes out of their pay) so anything you can send them like stamps and a phone card helps.  They are allowed to have those two things mailed to them.

Comment by diannep on March 31, 2015 at 11:31pm

Dodgecity:  As you are finding out, sending a child to Bootcamp is very different than dropping them off at college....mainly because of the lack of communication!  That is the purpose of this support group because everyone on here understands!

Comment by diannep on March 31, 2015 at 11:30pm

They have access to stationery up there.  My son wrote on the Navy stationery-----so if they sent it back in the box, I wouldn't send it again unless they ask for it.

Just a heads up....they usually won't receive your letters and can't write you back until they have been there about 2 weeks and the division Recruit Mail Petty Officer has been trained.  Sometimes the training is completed a little earlier, but it usually takes a couple of weeks.  Normally the first day they can write is a Sunday, and after they write, they are then handed the "held" mail from you all.  After that first mail delivery, they can write every Sunday (mailed out on Monday) but receive mail M-F.

Comment by Dodgecity on March 31, 2015 at 9:29pm

My son in Ship 4 div. 182, very excited to receive his form letter today.  Hope all of the loved ones out there are adjusting.  It's been quite a different experience than dropping him off at college (which he did not want to return the next year).  So glad for all of the advice on this site.  Thank you!

Comment by lomom on March 31, 2015 at 8:34pm
Happyzucchini - just saw your comment about stationary returning. Maybe I should just send stamps ? I planned to send plain paper and a SASE.
Comment by lomom on March 31, 2015 at 7:55pm

Letter going out to our son tomorrow. Including a phone card and stationary/paper/SASE for him to write back. ;-) 

Comment by diannep on March 31, 2015 at 5:15pm

You are so sweet, CatMom....we were only passing on to you what others had done for us, just as you do now!  :-)

I actually "googled" to find Navy4Moms after my son left back in 2009.  I had no idea if there was any support out there for families.  He was 23, had lived away for awhile, so I was more used to that.  But having had no one in the military before, it was scary!  I found this site to be so helpful....but especially a lady in my own PIR group who stayed on to help after he son graduated, and asked me to also.  That is how it started!  Over 5 yrs now, and with my son having now been honorably discharged, I stay here because I love it.

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