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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
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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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Having trouble adjusting..
Hi Everyone,
This is my first post here, and I'm super glad I found an outlet for girls like me. My boyfriend just signed his papers on Monday, so we literally just began the process. We just graduated college together last month so we're both starting our careers. I am working two jobs, including running a business for my father. We live about two hours from each other (much different from the across the hall we had in our apartment complex at school) so we don't get to see each other much. We left college planning on saving up money, finding jobs near each other, and moving in together within a few months to a year. He's a nuclear engineer so it's hard to find jobs, and that's why he decided on enlisting. And now it's changing everything. Since I'm running this business, I can't just up and leave, and I'm assuming (I know very little about the whole process) he's going to have to live where they tell him to. This means it's will be at least 6 years until we even get to live together, let alone start a real life and a family together. It's a huge change from how I always pictured things. I'm happy he's doing this, and I know it's for our future, but I'm having a hard time adjusting. How did you guys adjust from the beginning? Any tips?
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Permalink Reply by MissG on
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Well, I can chime in here. It has not been an easy adjustment for me because I liketo plan and organize...a lot. The first thing I learned about being a military fiancee (now wife) is that you are in control of hardly anything. I also have a career that I don't want to leave, so my husband and I have made a few sacrifices so far. We are not living together but we will within thr next year. I decided that I can pursue my second degree while he is enlisted. Being away from him is difficult but it was a choice thay we both felt was for the best. You definitely should communicate with one another often and honestly about what you are both willing to sacrifice and what you are not willing to compromise on. I will not lie to you and make you believe that this lifestyle is easy....its not! But it is worth it because I am living it with my best friend and the love of my life.
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Permalink Reply by Jodie Smith on
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My boyfreind just got signed up to go to ODS. He will be an officer teaching engineering basics to nuclear guys in Charleston SC. Is your engineer doing the officer route?
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