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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
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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on December 14, 2009 at 7:10pm
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My daughter just came home last night from Sasebo. Katie will be with us for her 20th birthday and for Christmas. She returns to the USS Essex on the morning of the 26th! Havey a wonderful day. Enjoy reading everyone's news.
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Have Faith! God is in control! Who knows what's in store for him in the future.
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Elda, so sorry you are having problems, but your Amber is right, you shouldn't get involved....she is an adult & the one who should be handling it with the USN. Asking for receipts isn't a surprise -- they wanted our confirmed reservations for flights and hotel when we visited Katie at A school since the ship was put down a level after our plans were set.
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This is how a DC mom (Re(A's Mom) explained it to me before Katie went to DC school................He had Indoc classes, which lasted one week (5 days). Then he started BECC (which is their DC classes). They had a "module" of computer classes followed by the lab that coincides with those classes, then the test over all of that. He said they will do module 1.2.3.4.5.7 and then they pick up module 5 (which is actually their "strand" which is 3 days long).
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BECC (Basic Engineering Common Core) classes
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The Navy sends them where they are needed. There are a lot of families at the base in Sasebo.
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Click 'View All' under the Discussion Forum above and you'll see the "What a Damage Controlman does....." that NavyMom(Robin) posted for a great overview.
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Katie didn't call when she arrived in Sasebo because the int'l phone card she had didn't work, but she did e-mail us the following day. My daughter is a DC on the USS Essex. Hard to know when they are actually writing since she is 13 hours ahead of us here in Michigan.
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Judyann - I would say it is more like 12 weeks. Katie did her indoc classes before Christmas break and then did the actual instruction starting in January . She was done by the end of March.
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