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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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Boatswain Mate
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Just graduated from Boatswain Mate School on Friday, May 23
Location: Norfolk, VA
Members: 81
Latest Activity: Jan 28, 2019
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Comment by MissMySailor on April 20, 2010 at 10:26pm
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Good luck to your son Brent! Before you know it he will be getting his orders. My son finished BM A school 2 weeks ago and is heading to Norfolk Va. He is so excited to get started.
Take care,
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Comment by Brent's_Mom on April 20, 2010 at 10:16pm
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My son leaves tomorrow for BM A-School at GL.
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Hey all he got his orders and going to Norfolk Va I am happy close enough for me to go see him when he can get the time.
Take care, Paula
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Hello
My son has 2 weeks left of A school, he has not received his orders yet but his friends who finished before him are going to Iraq. I am real nervous if he gets sent there too. They just seem too green, would'nt a ship be better until they gain more experience? My son does not tell me alot about his training but do they get enough time learning to shoot before they stand gaurd in another country? I am so scared he will be sent too. He says they are trained well and he will be fine. Heck he may not even be sent there .....
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Comment by matthews_mommy on March 10, 2010 at 11:41am
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Hello everyone My husband is a BM@ on board the ashland if any one else is on the ashland please let me know.
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Comment by CrackerjackMom on September 8, 2009 at 12:05pm
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No, Sandi not yet, she is still waiting for her MRI results.
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Hi everyone, my daughter Tara went in the Navy as Seamen Apprentice almost 2 years ago. She is stationed at Camp Pendleton with ACU5, working with the LCAC's (landing cushion air craft) She just got back from a 6 and half month deployment with the USS Boxer. Teketa, I know about the Bainbridge, Captain Phillips was taken to the Boxer when he was rescued along with all the pirates dead or alive. It was quite an exciting time out there.
Anyway, Tara left a undesignated sailor and came back as a BM. So here I am. She is very excited to be rated BM she worked very hard for it. While we were there for her homecoming she took us on a tour of the Boxer, I was very impressed at what she knows about the ship and all the different jobs she has done. For her I think this is a great rate, she likes to do hands on and likes to try different things, she would get board doing the same thing.
I don't know who said it, but I agree that it is the attitude and the person that makes this job great.
I'm glad there is a group for BM, and I'm glad I found it.
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