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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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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

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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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PACT Moms

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Let's chat about our wonderful sons and daughters who have chosen the PACT program.

Members: 222
Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2022

Hello

It has been a long time since I have posted and I am sorry. I hope everyone has been able to connect with others in the PACT program. My son is now 3 and a half years in and it has been a great experience. He thought he wanted to be an AM. When he got on the ship, he was put with the AO’s. Now he is an AD3. It was best for him to start PACT because we didn’t know much about the Navy and he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. This has been a good route for him.

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Comment by DepthCharge4 on May 5, 2015 at 5:12pm: Hello! New mom posting. Daughter graduates 5/15/15 and is spact. Had a real tough day over the weekend after viewing the link for N4Dad's and seeing a sailor post some horrible situations he is going through in the program. I panicked for a while and by God's grace I found this page. From reading all your comments, I am a little more at ease. She receives orders next week.

Comment by splash on May 4, 2015 at 9:50am: Good morning everyone!

Comment by Mommamac on April 30, 2015 at 9:12am: Thanks Michael's mom & splash.

Comment by splash on April 29, 2015 at 8:33pm: Michael's mom is correct. It is not A school. I did not know that some are trained right away on a ship. I learn something new every day here.
Thanks for the web cam info. I will check it out.

Comment by splash on April 29, 2015 at 6:04pm: Mommamac. So far for me Boot Camp has been the hardest. When she was out of boot camp we talked everyday several times a day. PIR is fantastic. Are you going? Do you know where you will be staying? I made 3 trips to GL From Thanksgiving to early January. It is about a six hour drive from where I live.

Comment by Mommamac on April 29, 2015 at 3:04pm: splash.. I am sure I will need a fund for visiting my son once he is stationed somewhere, but as you know its so worth it!My son's PIR is 5/29/15, I can't wait to see him and drive him crazy with questions! Thanks for asking your daughter! I have had 2 calls from my son but our time is always up before I can ask him every thing I want to.

Comment by splash on April 29, 2015 at 2:22pm: Mommamac. I went to San Diego in March for a week...it is beautiful! We are from Minnesota...my daughter never wants to leave SD. I am going there next March for a week again. I am also going in November for her birthday. I could move there I would. I am going to go broke going there but it will be worth it. When does your son graduate fom BC?

I asked my daughter and she thnks A school for EPACT is about one month and it is in GL.

Comment by Mommamac on April 29, 2015 at 2:12pm: splash...I have heard San Diego is beautiful! We are from the South. MY SR seems to think he will go to school in GL the weekend after boot camp, but who knows. Someone on here said he would not have A school because he is E-Pact? I really am totally confused about that.

Comment by splash on April 29, 2015 at 2:01pm: They fill out a dream sheet toward the end of boot camp listig the places they would like to be. Her first choice was San Diego and she got it.

Comment by splash on April 29, 2015 at 1:58pm: Mommamac...she graduated Dec 5th and was on hold for a couple weeks then she came home for Christmas for about 10 days. Then went back to GL for her A school and left for San Diego on Jan 15th. She is SPACT so her school is really short. She got her orders right before graduation.