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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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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Blue Candle Lighting
The sailors who are home, please light the blue candle and let them know... Home or not - they are always shining brightly at our tables.
My candle says - Thoughts of you are prayers wrapped in prayers. Your candle can say anything. In the groups we belong to please rsvp to this invite so the count can be kept track of easier. rsvp and state where you are from please.
If you can light a candle on Christmas in honor of our Sailors that cannot be home, please go to Events, Blue Candle Lighting and add your location. Thank you
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Permalink Reply by Seabee Mom Wanda on
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My son left yesterday for GL; my candle will be burning in Savannah Georgia; Happy Holidays to all- it is going to be so difficult with Joshua not being here for Christmas- I have never spent a Christmas without my children
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Permalink Reply by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on
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Wanda, so many families will be experiencing Christmas without their sailors for the first time. It will not be easy and we understand how difficult the days will be for you with just sending Joshua off. Keeping thinking of his boot camp PIR (graduation) it will get here before you know it.
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Permalink Reply by Irene McClure on
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I had my blue candle going for my daughter.I sent messages from my e-mail and myspace.My candle is from Buford,Ga.I hope everyone had a nice Christmas.This was our first Christmas with all my daughter too. I have my 2 sons home and we did things different this year. The boys said they didn't want to go see lights because Heather wasn't here. We are going to Stone Mountain today to see their lights.Hey Wanda we got through it just fine didn't we.We will keep the upper chin.
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I lit my blue and sliver candles on the morning of Chirstmas Eve and kept it burning until around 3 p.m. when I left home to share Christmas dinner with some friends and their whole family where their Army son-inlaw lit their blue and sliver candles. After my visit with these friends I left to go to another home of some friend for a Christmas party and their cangles were burning. I got back home around 1 or 1:30 a.m. December the 26th and relit my candles and plan for them to burn until 12 midnight January 1st 2009. -
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Mary-Don't forget we talked about trying to get Moms together - at least the N Ga Moms! Maybe we could do it in January, on a Saturday midday for people having to drive... Let's work on it!
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Barbara, mother of Mike (stationed aboard USS STENNIS @ Bremerton WA) - our family is located in Statesboro GA (near Savannah) and on Christmas Day we lit a blue candle in honor of our Mike and other Sailors, as well as a silver candle in honor of our military who have given the ultimate sacrifice in service to America. Regardless of where our Sailors are at any moment in time....they are always in our thoughts and prayers.
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