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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:
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
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New to Navy for Moms...Son Leaves for Boot Camp April 18th, 2013
Hello All! My name is Diane and my son, Joshua, leaves for boot camp on April 18th. Reality is certainly setting in as we have hit the 45 days til he ships. We are a military family but it will still be hard to let him go...
Joshua is our oldest--just turned 19yrs old and will be the first family Sailor :) He has a younger brother who will be graduating from high school in May and he will be attending a military college in Northern Georgia. I am so proud of my boys but the empty nest is happening very quickly & very soon (lol)
Joshua is extremely excited to begin his Navy career and has been doing nothing but studying his Navy book and working out. He will be a Gunners Mate and attend his "A" school at Great Lakes as well.
I was very happy to find this Navy Mom's community to network with others and learn more about what is to come. We live in Central Ohio (just south of Columbus) and wanted to see if there were other Ohio mom's out there or those with Sons/Daughters leaving for Boot Camp around the same timeframe.
If anyone has any recommended groups, forums, etc...please do share ;) Also, I didn't see a DEP-Leaving for boot camp in April 2013 group started yet? Maybe soon...
Look forward to getting to know other Mom's on this site.
Thanks- Diane "aka: mamacush"
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Hi mamacush, even though we on on the West coast, we want to wish Joshua all the best, he sounds stellar.Our son John, left on March 5, - swallowed a lots of rocks that day, but we press on. Don't we have good kids ! All the best. JTSF
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Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on
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Hi JTSF.
Click on MY PAGE on menu bar. It'll take you to your personal page. Scroll down to the comment left by Kathy. Click on the link to the San Fran group. Then click +JOIN. I want to get you in the habit of checking personal page periodically because friends will leave you comments and messages and I don't want you to miss them. We have a big group in the South Bay. Any way, for you convenience here the link.
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/sfbayareanavyfamilies
See you soon. Do you live near Tony and Alba on Steven's Creek? We have a meet and greet lunch there in Feb. We have another meet and greet in Santa Rosa on 23rd of March. Hope you can join us. There'll be 25 of us.
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