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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.
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- Graduation Info
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So, this is my first time on a site for the whole Navy Wife info if you will. An I'm still trying to figure out most things. I am 24 years old and my husband is 25. He has talked so much about joining and when that day finally came we were SUPER excited. Well, we have been together for almost 7 years but married for 2 months with a 2 year old daughter.
But, my husband just swore in on March 21st. He is set to leave in September and will begin A-school right after. What all should I learn so that I can be more knowledgeable of what to expect?
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Permalink Reply by beachmom76 on
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Hi Mrs.! Congratulations on your recent wedding. A lot of what you need to know can be found at the following: http://learning.zeiders.refineddata.com/course/view.php?id=4502
This is an online course for new Navy spouses that discusses the services available, how to get an ID card, even a glossary of Navy terms so when your husband starts speaking his new language, Navy-speak, you will know what he is talking about.
Welcome to the club!
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Permalink Reply by NerdyNavyWife on
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Hello! My husband swore in just after his 26th Birthday, and Left for Boot Camp on the 9th of April. We have been together 11 years, and married for 3 years, No Kids.
This site has been incredibly helpful for me in finding all the information I need. If I have a question, I can always find the answer on here somewhere.
My suggestion would be to learn as much Navy Lingo as you can. Learn as much as you can about his job, and what he will be going through. The Faces of Boot Camp video is great. Connect with other loved ones, Moms, Dads, Significant others who are shipping out around the same time, so you have a group of people going through the same thing you are going through. Don't be afraid to ask questions.
You can go with him to MEPS when he Ships out in September, and I highly recommend that. Write him a letter to take with him so he can read it while he is in his first few days of Bootcamp and include a picture of yourself and your daughter if you can. (I did that for my SR and when I spoke with him the other day he said that he reads it everynight and will until he gets my first letters in the mail)
Know as much as you can about Boot Camp, and PIR (Pass In Review). What he will go through during P-days, and each week of training. Know what your FS (Future Sailor) needs to do to prepare for BC and help him get there, Whether it is Physical Training, or Memorization. Ask him what he did at DEP meetings, what he learned. That made my SR feel good to know that I was interested, and he was excited to share new information. It will really help him if he has the 11 orders, the Sailors Creed and phonetic alphabet down solid before he leaves.
Your FS will be a role model to the average younger recruit, because he is older, more mature and has more life experience. This will NOT be the first time someone has told him what to do, and not his first time away from home (parents). He will be expected to do great things. It will be hard on your relationship and both of you will change for the better. This will only make your relationship stronger, and You are joining an elite group of women who are proud to call themselves Navy Wives, and we will always be here for you. Lastly, ALWAYS tell him how proud you are of him, even before Boot Camp. He may not say it, but it will make him feel good about his decision and it will help him through the toughest times at BC. Write it in every letter and tell him in every phone call. And Expect to cry a lot when he goes to BC. It is OK, and completely natural. I am not a cryer by nature, but I have cried a lot in the last 2 weeks. Its OK, you will miss your man, and you'll be worried about him and how he is doing. It will always gets better!
-Virginia
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Permalink Reply by Mrs.NewlyWed2013 on
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Thank you so much!!! This is so helpful on so many levels I really appreciate it...
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