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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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Looking for moms, friends, relatives of sailors from the small wonderful state of Delaware. This is a wonderful website and I have met many people, but would like to meet people from my sons home state. Looking forward to meeting some new friends.
Members: 26
Latest Activity: Apr 11, 2014
Discussion Forum
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Started by NF Mom. Last reply by NF Mom Feb 25, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
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Comment by WhiteClay Ship 2 Div 913 on May 23, 2011 at 9:03am
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Thanks for the welcome! My son's recruiter was excellent, a Seal who has shore duty, and my son was very impressed with his enthusiasm for the Navy. I'm in contact with a couple moms from DE, new ones like tfarr and a couple whose kids are going in soon or just left. I'm at work now, but we should think about a meet & greet that people at different stages of Navy experience would feel comfortable coming to. Think about it!
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Comment by Just T on May 23, 2011 at 8:19am
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White Clay...Dan's Dad..... Looks like we can reactivate this group!!! I know there were so many recruits at my daughter's recuiter's office....so why not more Delawarians???
I too am in North Wilmington VERY new at this. Hoping I get the BOX today! Just affirmation, this was my first weekend without her and it was REALLY hard!
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Comment by Dan's Dad (John) on May 23, 2011 at 7:53am
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Welcome white clay. I'm in north wilmington about a mile from the PA line. My sister lives outside of newark off 273 so I know where you are. I check this site everyday too but there's never much action. LOL. Congratulations on you son graduating boot. My son is a corpsman deployed with the marines right now.
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Hi, I don't live in DE but we are 1 mile from the DE line in PA, off Rt 896 and our son's recruitment office is in Newark. I'm a member of the PA and Philly area groups, but PA is a big state! My son grad bc 2/18/11 and is in Great Lakes for A school, Adv. Elect./Computer Field for FC, (weapons fired by computer). He'll be there probably till the end of the year, then will go to C school to specialize in a weapons system. I don't know if you ever have a meet & greet event, but I'd be interested. I try to check the Members tab every week or so to look out for new moms/dads/wives from our PA/DE area.
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Comment by richsmom (Div 818 PIR 9/2/10) on March 19, 2011 at 7:34pm
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Thanks for the welcome Dan's Dad :-)
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Welcome Rich's mom. Our son PIR'd 11/09, he is a greenside corpsman stationed with the marines at Camp Lejeune.
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Hello All
I've been a N4M's member since July 8, 2010 when my son shipped off to BC. We've been living in Milton for 4 years since moving here from Jersey. Our son is currently in Panama City, Fl about to graduate from Dive School. We just found out that that his home port will be Little Creek, VA., Naval Expeditionary Combat Command. Pretty lucky for us as long as he stays there for a bit.
I started a site for our PIR Division and have made wonderful life long friends there and although I would never leave that group I thought that now that our son is going to be "moving" on in his career that I would broaden my horizons too.
I want to thank all of you wonderful moms and wives, and if there are any dads on here, and your Sailors for serving our great country.
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Comment by JC's Mama on November 22, 2010 at 3:55pm
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Debbie K -- will say a prayer that Keith makes it home for the holidays. Enjoy your time with him -- we won't see JC until next month (hopefully) -- we can't wait!
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Comment by peanutsmom/Ship07, DIV 051 on November 18, 2010 at 5:26pm
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Thank you everyone. reading everyone elses stories is helpful too. Amber is going to be a Builder and go to A school in Mississippi and then IDK.
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I used to work in Wilmington (Rodney Square) - for almost 20 yrs. It's changed alot. I cried like a baby for days when JC climed on that plane for BC over a year ago. I'm not an over protective mom by any means, but when he turned & waved . . . . My son is stationed on a guided missle destroyer & the worst thing for me is not hearing from him for long periods of time.
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