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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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
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Navy Speak
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Navy.com Para Familias
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Deployment To Africa
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This group is for Parents with a Sailor, Marine, or Soldier deployed to Africa.
A place to come for support. To share our anxieties and stories.
Please introduce yourself on the comment wall.
Welcome to everyone.
Members: 10
Latest Activity: Nov 11, 2018
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Comment by janieflorida on October 20, 2017 at 11:52am
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IDC mom glad to hear your sailor is safe. There seems to be a lot of restrictions when dealing with the kids. such a shame.
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Comment by IDCmom#1 on October 19, 2017 at 9:04pm
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Tenn Navy Mom, son returned after 7 months in west Africa. Thank God, it was a mostly uneventful deployment. Most traumatic experience was the camp cat he had adopted disappeared. No major illnesses or injuries to treat; dislocated ankle, poke in the eye, and split lip. Their pet goat did get wrapped up in the barbed wire but wouldn’t let son suture him.
Son did do a toy drive, with wonderful results thanks to many Navy moms. Due to safety concerns, they were not allowed to stop and interact with the children but handed them to kids as they drive by.
He will PCS in December. Praying that he will not deploy while on shore duty the next three years!!!
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Getting to do some humanitarian work with orphans
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Comment by jensue0 on July 13, 2017 at 11:19am
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Thank you, everyone, for your comments!
Hopefully, my son will be able to go snorkeling through a "Navy-approved" field trip. ;-) Migration patterns bring A LOT of whale sharks along Djibouti's coast during the winter months. Snorkeling with them is on my son's bucket list and he's hoping he will get to take advantage of their proximity to him while he's there.
I'm already following this Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/CampLemonnier/
Are there any other ones families can follow/join?
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The sailors can go on organized liberty as approved by the navy. They have a Facebook page
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Jensue, did you ever get an answer to your question about your son being able to swim with whale sharks?
Just curious about the safety issues in that part of Africa.
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Just looking back and thanking God time hasn't really stopped. My son is five months into his deployment. Hoping he will be home before his birthday in October.
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Dear Jensue: I hope you got my comment about R&R. I'm not sure where the Whale sharks are. We have them occasionally here in the Florida Keys. But as I said they do have organized recreation that I'm sure he will learn about.
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Comment by EmilyD on June 25, 2017 at 12:20pm
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My sailor heads out with his marines on deployment soon, and they will be spending at least a month in Djioubiti. Doesn't know what they will be doing. I'm hoping humanitarian aid or training some troops.
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