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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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Navy.com Para Familias

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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Great Lakes A School Q&A

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Great Lakes A School Q&A

The purpose of this group is to allow family of new sailors assigned to school at Training Support Center Great Lakes a chance to voice questions to a Student Division Commander

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 2332
Latest Activity: Mar 12

Discussion Forum

What happens after ASchool?

Started by SailorMom18. Last reply by Phoenixmom Feb 13, 2019. 1 Reply

BECC Info?

Started by adubz33. Last reply by SuBHuni34 Nov 29, 2018. 9 Replies

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Comment by tinpet65 on December 2, 2015 at 9:36am

He wasn't sure what his specialty was going to be when he left for bc.  He said he would be at Great Lakes for a year but not sure where for the C school.  Will he get to choose or will they just put him where they need him?

Comment by Anti M on December 2, 2015 at 9:29am

I was an ET,  before the AECF program, but it is still much the same.  Has he been told if he will be an ET or an FC yet?  They do  ATT (apprentice technical training) first, then separate A schools.  He'll be at Great Lakes close to a year, then C school in another location.

Comment by tinpet65 on December 2, 2015 at 8:36am

My son, Brandon is going to A School in Great Lakes.  I believe it is Advanced Electronics with Computers.  Does anyone have a son/daughter going through this school.  My son's pir is 1/8/16

Comment by Alex's_Mom (Robin) on November 26, 2015 at 11:49am
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, unfortunately Alex has his Duty Day today. He said he had to stay inside all day.
Comment by TheRocksmom on November 26, 2015 at 11:36am

Well made it to GL here at Marriott got whole homemade turkey feast, son bringing 3 Sailors with him, have no idea who, but everyone have happy thanksgiving, I'm thankful for N4M

Comment by Tati's mum on November 25, 2015 at 6:40pm

Shoot! I accidently deleted my reply. Here it goes again.

Thank you Anti M and Ken.

Hopefully all goes well. We will be there tomorrow for the entire weekend. My daughter asked one of her roommate to come with her and the roommate's reply to her was that it would be weird to hang out with your family. Haha. I hope this gal changes her mind and come out with her. 

All in all I just want to see my daughter and spend some time with her. 

Comment by Anti M on November 24, 2015 at 3:40pm

If he has approved leave papers, he can check himself out.  If you can get on base, you just go pick him up.  Otherwise, he has to meet you at the closest gate.

Comment by Anti M on November 24, 2015 at 2:37pm

Finding liberty buddies is usually not a problem, especially if there is a meal involved, or a chance to relax somewhere.  One of my best memories is going to a friend's place near Great Lakes for Turkey Day.  It should work out fine.

Comment by Anti M on November 24, 2015 at 1:50pm

If she missed the deadline for the chit, then she has to have one or two liberty buddies.  Parents or family checking them out without a chit was for PIR weekend only, RTC policy, not TSC policy.  She probably heard it in indoc, but did not absorb it, they throw a lot of information at them all at once.

Look at it this way, you will be taking two sailors who have no visiting family out for a meal and some time off base.  Like Adopt a Sailor.  You will brighten their holiday, and make some memories.  The Navy family is wonderful that way.

Comment by Tati's mum on November 24, 2015 at 1:14pm

HELP! 
We will be traveling to see my daughter for Thanksgiving weekend. She told me last night that her chit got denied for me to check her out and in. I asked her what does that mean. She said she was told the chits were due last week and she didn't know about it. They don't talk about stuff like that when they are in class. So she's clueless.

Anyway, she said she has to ask someone to be her liberty buddy to go out with. So basically she'll have to bring someone else along with us. I mean we don't mind but it would've been nice if I could've checked her out and in myself. 

How do I clear this up? How does this go? I'm totally clueless myself. I didn't think they needed a chit to spend time with family for the weekend. 

She's phase II.

 

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