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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
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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Comment by AmOm on January 21, 2014 at 10:34pm
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You're welcome. Yes, they get their own ship's email address. Its always wonderful to open your email and see an email from your kid who is half way around the world, and in the middle of the ocean. I'm so glad we live in these technological times and not in the days where you waited months to get a letter. Its never easy being apart from our sailors. My girl is hopefully coming home for a visit in the not too distant future. It will have been 11 months since I've last seen her. It will be so hard to send her back.
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Comment by Dmaeship12div410 on January 20, 2014 at 10:00am
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Thank you so much for the information need to get him some calling cards they will have their own email address? He has some movies already that he's bought. Not looking forward to this. :'(
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So far my son hasn't let me send him care packages while he was in A school or now. I try but he will not let me he's like "NO".
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My girl is on the Washington. They love care packages. Sometimes its hard to get to chow so they love food that they can make a quick meal of. I even found an online bakery that ships birthday cakes to them. My girl's actualy arrived in the middle of the ocean on her birthday. There's also a company online that sells light-darkening rack curtains. My girl absolutely loves her but be prepared for poor customer service and long delays. I never did get the free embroidery. They are the ones who make them though. You will want to get his ship email address as soon as you can so you can email when he has time. They can call using calling cards but there are only so many phones and the calls sometimes drop. He'll want an iPad or something and lots of movies. The first deployment is always the hardest but. Congratulations.
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My son will be on the USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH soon for his deployment. This is my very 1st experience with this.
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Comment by NavyBrat on December 14, 2013 at 6:02pm
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Woe, dude, you know we are making wine onboard, right? Apparently he doesn't know those sailors. LOL.
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After more than 100 days at sea, you would be surprised how much one beer sells for.
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Then we went beyond six pack.
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Laura, I was joking of course. We broke the record for consecutive days at sea on two West Pac's. CO's loved it. Sailors thought the CO's were torturing us. We thought the last one, the CO was going for a six pack.
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Comment by Laura on December 9, 2013 at 2:28am
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When my sailor was on the Enterprise, they made port calls. (maybe I'm not using the correct term?) Granted, there were times that it was 54 days at sea between port calls, but yes they docked.
The local newspapers reported on their arrivals and there were photos of the ship in port, hosting dignitaries in Dubai, Bahrain, Italy, to name a few.
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