text: This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
  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!
  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.
  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:
  **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:
  **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.
  Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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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
  We're staying at the Navy Lodge, as well. Nice and close, and a great rate. You would book it under your SR's name.
  Can't wait for PIR!
  We are staying at the Courtyard in Waukegan.
  diane - Other than PIR, the Navy Lodge IS only for Navy personnel and their families. For BC graduations, you can book under your recruit's name and stay there, even though it's without him. It sounded like a nice place, and it's close. Great rate, too! Just can't wait to get out there and see my SR! (Sailor!)