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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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First 4 Enlisted Females Begin Submarine School Today

http://news.usni.org/2015/08/24/first-4-enlisted-females-begin-subm...

The first four of 38 enlisted women selected to serve on guided missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN-727) will begin their training at the Basic Enlisted Submarine School in Connecticut today, the next step in removing one of the last gender barriers in the Navy.

The Navy selected four chief petty officers and 34 petty officers in June who would enter training and, if successful, would next year become the first enlisted women to serve on a submarine. About 50 female officers serve on submarines now after the Navy’s male-only policy change in 2010.

According to a news report in The (New London) Day, these four women are in the Submarine Electronics Communications Field and will go through school with 75 male sailors. The women will then go to technical training at “A” schools and “C” schools where applicable, before being incorporated into the Blue and Gold crews of Michigan in 2016. Enlisted women will begin serving aboard new Virginia-class nuclear attack subs starting in 2020, the Navy announced in January.

The sub school in Groton, Conn., lasts eight weeks, with new classes starting every other week, The Day reported. Capt. David Roberts, the commanding officer of the Submarine Learning Center, told the newspaper that only the first four women would start this week but that more would begin attending sub school within the next month or two.

To prepare for female students, the sub school in had to update the barracks to meet Navy privacy standards, as well as bring in female senior enlisted sailors to serve as mentors, The Day reported. The first female sailors will serve aboard the larger Ohio-class boats as-is, but new Virginia-class subs may be built with mixed-gender crews in mind, The Day reported.

Sub builder General Dynamics Electric Boat told the newspaper that several options are being considered, such as installing doors instead of curtains in the bunk rooms, rearranging chief petty officer quarters to allow for two private bunk areas, and lengthening toilet stall doors.

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