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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
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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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For those of us who have children serving as Corpsmen, above and beyond the call of duty!
Location: Worldwide
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Established June 17, 1898, the 25,000+ active duty members of the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps provide health care to Sailors, Marines, and all those entrusted to their care on the battlefield, at sea, under the sea, and at military treatment facilities worldwide.
What to expect at Field Medical Training Battalion (FMTB)
Discussion Forum
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son in japan
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Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on December 14, 2009 at 5:51pm
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We called his 1st encounter with a snow shovel "character-building"! Though I've lived on the east coast (NY, DC, and Boston), my son's only lived in San Francisco, HI & AZ. I took a full length fur & matching hat & still froze. I'm so spoiled here!
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Comment by Sharon P.M. on December 14, 2009 at 5:25pm
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Interesting is one word - freaking freezing cold blizzard is another that comes to mind! LOL! Mind you, I'm a FL girl! With the exception of 10 days off at the holidays my poor son spent his entire winter there, I don't know how he survived, he'd never even seen snow until he was in bootcamp!
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Dana's ship is based in Norfolk, so he's happy he can be keep his condo, friends etc for the next three yrs. PIR on Christmas Eve must have been interesting. I was in GL in February for corps school graduation, great experience but bitter cold.
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Devin PIR'd last December 24th so he's just been in over a year now. He'll be in Italy for 3 years, we're planning a trip over there probably late summer or early fall. He's been assigned to an optical surgeon there.
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If he's a surg tech then Dana must know him. Not easy on you I'm sure, but Naples is a great assignment for him. Portsmouth is a great place but I'd love to have a reason to go to Italy! How long has your son been in the Navy?
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Welcome Marcy! My son has been in Portsmouth since May, he said everyone there is really nice, he's a surg tech and is headed to Naples, Italy tomorrow!
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We were laughing in the car on the way to the airport, I remember when I moved out of the house at 18 yrs old, my mother was ecstatic, she celebrated when each of us moved on! And mind you, I was a good kid, went to school paid rent at home, had a curfew and everything, she was just done with the whole kids at home thing I guess. Me, I hate the kids being gone. Of course we weren't allowed to have pets either (I snuck in a goldfish once, it lived in a jelly jar in my room for 4 years) and now I have a mini-petting zoo at home! So I'm not sure where I get it from. My mom would do anything in the world for me, she's just warm and fuzzy, you know?
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Hi all, just joined your group and from reading feel like I'm getting to know you a little bit already! My son Dana has been a corpsman for two years (anesthesia tech at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth), and is heading to FMTP at Camp Lejeune in March.
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Devin just called, he got everything handled this morning that needed to be done and now is just hanging out at his buddies, his flight for Naples doesn't leave until tomorrow night. Darned - if I knew that I would have kept him home another day! Of course then I'd just been prolonging the sobbing. Mind y'all I kept it together pretty good at the airport, I waited to lose it until he was on his plane and couldn't see his momma crying like a baby.
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Monica - FMTB is training to be attached to a Marine unit. As the Marines are actually a division of the Navy, our Corpsmen are their medics as well. They have this training at Fort Pendleton and Fort LeJuene. Your son has a while yet before he has to make the decision of what he wants to do. Don't know where y'all are from but bundle up for that trip to GL! My gosh I don't think I've ever been so cold in all my lift as I was up there! :0)
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