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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:

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:

RTC Graduation

**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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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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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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Big E Homecoming

Where virtual homecoming will take place!

Location: Norfolk, VA
Members: 36
Latest Activity: Jul 7, 2017

Remember you can sponsor a sailor on the USS GHW Bush!  

Contact www.besassy.org or sassy@navy4parents.com

 



Discussion Forum

Watch homecoming virtually here!

Started by bigehomecoming Jul 3, 2011. 0 Replies

Beginning in the hours of o'dark-thirty, pictures from the homecoming as well as play-by-play will be posted here so you can log in and watch at your leisure and not worry about your email inbox getting jammed up.Continue

About Big E Homecoming

Started by bigehomecoming Jul 3, 2011. 0 Replies

If you see pictures on this post that you like, please download them to your computer as soon as possible. The site will self-destruct at 8:00 a.m., Monday, July 18!

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Comment by CTmomof3 on July 15, 2011 at 5:29am
How the heck he get chicken pox after all this time on the ship? Be back in. Few
Comment by bigehomecoming on July 15, 2011 at 3:45am

http://www.livestream.com/usnavy

this is the link to the Navy's live streaming video of the ship coming in...

Comment by bigehomecoming on July 15, 2011 at 3:32am

Yep chicken pox but as bad as it is at 38, when I saw him it wasn't very obvious.

 

I'm here if anyone else pops in ...

Comment by bigehomecoming on July 14, 2011 at 6:27pm
by the way, its Pam aka paango here :)
Comment by bigehomecoming on July 14, 2011 at 6:17pm

Hi ladies - I will be up and online about 5am EST to start the play-by-play and posting pics and what-not as I get them from onboard and from the "mothership" group on the ground. E made it safely home 2o pounds lighter and a week over the chicken pox.  If Mayport homecoming was any indication you are in for a treat!

Comment by Denise aka roxicon on July 11, 2011 at 1:34pm

yeah - I'm on !!!!!!!

Got My Hotel & Working On My Ride. Charging All The Electronics. Life Is Good

Comment by momof31971 on July 11, 2011 at 11:45am
The butterflies are swarming in my tummy!  I don't know how we are going to stand the suspense!  Let the countdown begin!
Comment by Jan1 on July 11, 2011 at 11:40am
You can feel the excitement building!
Comment by CTmomof3 on July 11, 2011 at 10:25am
Yipeee, let the fun begin.
Comment by OHNavyMom on July 11, 2011 at 10:24am
I am soooo grateful for this. I can't thank you enough. This menopausal momma who won't be there to see her son get off the ship has already started to cry. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
 

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