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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.
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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:
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:
**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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- Graduation Info
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Why is this so hard
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Comment by ⚓ darsatm ⚓ on September 26, 2018 at 3:45pm
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Good Afternoon Sailormom,
Remember that this journey is just as much about you being in training as it is for our recruits. Things change, schedules change, they can’ t always tell you everything, there will be times when you do not hear from them for a while, there will be ups and downs and everything in between, they will see people drop, leave the service, rollback and finish their training. Focus on today and learn not to worry about tomorrow. Always be encouraging and uplifting even when your heart is breaking, they do not need to be worrying about us and how we are dealing with things. This journey is a difficult one for the ones at home and not knowing what is going on and hard to grasp when you are still so new to it, relax and breathe and it will get better.
Live your life as normal as possible, come to this site for support but do not stress over phone calls, letters and how they are doing. Phone calls get missed or not made; it is not the end of the world even though it may feel like it at that moment. We have wonderful recruits and who are on a new journey in their life and we need to be okay with the not knowing what is going on and not hearing from them as this may happen from time to time during their time in the Navy, the sooner you are okay with this the better for them as they do not need to know that we are stressing or worried about them.
This is the job that they have chosen and some of us have jobs that do not allow us to have phone calls at work, the same holds true for them, they will call when they can and after BC it does get better but there may be times when it gets worse. We are so used to knowing everything about what they are doing and having instant contact that it can be hard to break that habit but it will get better, hang in there and before you know it you will be at PIR.
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Comment by Phoenixmom on September 26, 2018 at 3:52pm
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darsatm You said it so perfectly, Sailormom96 you will be fine, Come stick with us we will help guide you smoothly thru this Journey. You will never be alone! It Doesnt get easier we just get Stronger!
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Comment by Sailormom96 on September 26, 2018 at 4:48pm
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Thank you so much your right they don't need to worry about us I seem to hold it together when we see each other my son has been making extra time to spend with me in between his current job and friends he knows me well and knows how important this time is before he goes . Thanks to all you wonderful lady's (Navy mom's)I can remain strong through this journey
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Have your son leave you a voice message on your cell phone and when your feeling down ...just play the voice message so at least you can hear his voice...It does calm you down and puts things into perspective for you. At least it did help me.
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Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on September 26, 2018 at 5:11pm
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darsatm said it quite well. Hang in there Sailormom96!
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That's a awesome idea thanks
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Comment by Gforce82 on September 26, 2018 at 7:17pm
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It is as hard on our recruits as it is on us - however, as moms we’ve seen them grow and change thought many stages in life - this is another stage - the U.S Navy stage and we can take pride in getting them to this point. The hope and encouragement from other moms is wonderful, thank you Navyformoms!
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Comment by Pooter527 on September 27, 2018 at 6:26am
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Comment by drmary on September 27, 2018 at 5:07pm
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sailormom- I cried so much for the 9 months he was in DEP- that he finally looked at me one day and said "mom, last time I checked I didn't have cancer!" I heard someone on the radio who talked about losing her husband in the military- and she said something that summed it up for me- "when you love someone in the military, you have to realize that they don't belong to YOU anymore- they belong to the military- that described what I was struggling with- that going forward I would not be able to intervene for him, soothe him, kiss his boo boo's so to speak-
and that seemed like an impossible task for me- but my son graduated last weekend- after getting delayed by 3 weeks for his run- and what I have learned thus far is that HE needed to do this- for him and for me- he ripped off the band aid- but we both survived just fine- and THIS is what is supposed to happen- they have to go off and grow on their own- and for some of them (and us) its harder to do in our presence- Seeing my son feel good about HIS accomplishments that I had zero influence on and zero control over has helped him grow up more in 11 weeks than I was accomplishing in 18 years- -- Our job really is to prepare our kids to live in the world WITHOUT us- because that is most likely what will happen some day if we are lucky- and the Navy will help immensely in that process- so it IS hard.. but as others said - you can do it- and many wonderful women here will help you along the way-
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Thank you so much I know that this is the right thing for him and it's his life I'm so very proud of him and proud of myself for doing such a wonderful job in raising this amazing young man. Thanks again for sharing your experiences and how you handled them it helps so much
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