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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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A Blue Candle Event ♥
Event Details
Time: December 4, 2019 to December 3, 2020
Location: Anytime, Anywhere, Any Home or Office
Event Type: family, event, celebration, reunion
Organized By: A Blue Candle Event Group - Alicia from Texas
Latest Activity: Nov 5, 2020
Event Description
When you're missing your Sailor -- Light a Blue Candle!
A wonderful way to honor Sailors Anytime, Anywhere!
During Boot, PIR, specialized training, deployment or when you're just thinking about your loved one on distant shores.
Don't forget holidays, family events or birthdays - Just light a a blue candle, any type of blue candle (Blue for Navy) and allow its warm glow to bring you comforting joy & peaceful solace, and while separated from your Sailor.
Blessings to all our Sailors all over the World ♥
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Comment by navymom1007 on June 15, 2012 at 3:31pm
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Alicia, my son Jacob would always do the same while I was cooking. I miss those days but we will see them soon. Let's keep those blue candles lit and prayers to them all.
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Comment by AliciaG (Ship 12, DIV 204) on June 15, 2012 at 3:20pm
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When I see his blue candle flickering on the bartop in the kitchen, I smile thinking of how many times he sat there in those barstools talking to me while I fixed dinner.
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Comment by Storymom on June 12, 2012 at 4:48pm
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Flag Day on Thursday June 14! fly your flag!
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Comment by mamikaly on June 9, 2012 at 2:17am
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I LOVE THE IDEA! For my son that will be deployment next week to Hawaii and for my daughter that is at boot camp and graduate on June 29th!! and also for all of our kids serving our country!
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Patricia: "missing your son" - I know how ya feel. My son did a deployment in Japan too, a couple of years ago...so - so far away! thank goodness for SKYPE!
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Comment by Patricia Roy on June 8, 2012 at 11:47am
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I keep a blue candle going every evening. I really miss my son. He is stationed at Diego Garcia, but right now he is in Japan. He left Sept. 6, 2011 and we haven't seen him since. We are hoping he will get to come home for a visit in August but he is not sure right now.
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My blue candle is aglow this holiday-blessings to all ---
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Welcome Kurtmans: BC will seem like' time' has slowed down for you at first, but before you know it....it will be PIR-graduation and you can go and see the awesome ceremony! Be sure to hook into the Boot Camp or New Navy Moms support groups here on this website-there are several-LOTS of support &info, (He can take his cellphone with him, all the way to Great Lakes (my son texted me during layovers- it was nice)..then it and all his civies will be put in a box & shipped to you-kinda sad but all good too :) My son has never regretted his decision to join the NAVY, 4 years ago, & now he's seeing the World! (he says everybody hates boot-but for him it's just a distant memory as other adventures and experiences all make it worth while) Get ready to write lots of letters!
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Comment by Kurtmansmom on April 29, 2012 at 6:22pm
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My son graduates May 27 from high school . I'm going to hand out blue candles to everyone at his party to light and pray for my son. He leaves for bc June 13. This was a awesome ideal. So blessed to be part of Navy for moms
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