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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.
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- Graduation Info
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- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Comment by LisaZski on July 10, 2017 at 8:40pm
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Is anyone here in the facebook group for Guam families? I'm not sure what has happened but i have requested to be in the group & have heard nothing from the admin. It has been over a month. Would you mind putting a feeler out to see if someone can please let me in. Thanks!
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Comment by rjh on June 26, 2017 at 1:15pm
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For NurseRenee,
My daughter has been in Guam for about 2 months. She is an MA. It took her about a month to adjust. At first she was very homesick and very unhappy. The time change and jet lag was difficult for her as well. I do wish she was given a bit more information prior to going so she would have known more of what to expect. She was unaware she would need to purchase a car and make her own meals.
She has since adjusted very well. The buying a car was difficult for her. She never owned a car before and is not mechanically savvy. She was finally able to purchase a used car from another sailor leaving the island. I'm only hoping that it does not break down frequently. Car insurance seems to be inexpensive there (or at least compared to what we pay where we live). Although At&T assurred us that her cell phone would work there it did not and she purchased a new service in Guam (I'm thinking she is still using her old phone). We keep in touch with her via face-time audio and I think my husband has WhatsApp and uses that as well. She has made many friends and really seems to be enjoying life on Guam.
Good luck to your son, I'm sure he will adjust and do great.
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Comment by tysmom on June 26, 2017 at 12:17pm
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Oh and FB messenger is free....just have to remember what time it is there...from Michigan it is 14 hrs ahead so lets see ....it is 2 in the morning there....I use it for email, phone and you can video chat also....
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My son has been in Guam since Dec 2016. He bought a truck because roads are even worse than our roads here in Michigan!!!
He does a lot of golfing and the scuba diving is incredible!!
This past weekend he posted pictures of 4 wheeling with his truck...
It always takes a bit of time to makes friends. But your son is connected to a sub and some of those guys will end up being lifelong friends.
One of my sons brothers is planning a visit this summer to check out all the dive spots. What a great way to see the world!!!!
Be an encourager...look online for info about Guam...Pacific Daily News...local TV stations....LOTS of WWI and WWII history.....
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To NurseRenee - My son has been on Guam for over a year and a half. He loves it there and wants all of his extended family to retire there. My son is not a social butterfly but he was able to find plenty of great guys to explore the island with on his free time. As lots of new Nukes go to Guam, plenty are leaving and need to unload their own personal "Guam bombs". Driving safety standards are different in Guam compared to the US. It isn't too hard to find an inexpensive vehicle. With the highest speed limit on the island being 35mph (unless I'm mistaken), it sounds like your son could still drive safely, even in a Guam bomb (which is what they call the vehicles in Guam).
It is the "not knowing" that is so difficult. Once he gets there, he'll adapt like all the others. Good luck to him!
P.S. My son suspended his US cell phone plan to get a Guam cell phone to keep his rates low. Get Facebook Messenger & Skype. Those are both inexpensive ways to communicate with your Nuke on the other side of the world.
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Comment by nurserenee on June 25, 2017 at 12:44am
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Hi my son graduates nuke school in July and is headed to Guam . I have mixed emotions after reading several things on other sites about loss of opportunity while on Guam. He is "scared"and wants me to find outlets for a "young dude"to help with the transition. He will be on the USS OKLAHOMA. He was worried about vehicle purchases while there, packing needs and finding a nice group of others to make his time there great.
Thanks in advance. Anything is appreciated.
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Comment by SusanB on June 5, 2017 at 3:31pm
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Hi everyone! Finally was able to jump back on here after playing catch up at work! Guam was WONDERFUL! It was so nice seeing my boy as well as getting to know the people he works with at the clinic! Went scuba diving with him.. he was sooo patient with me! He also went skydiving with his sister.. I stayed grounded for that one! Haha it is so beautiful down there! No wonder the kids like it! A bit too humid for my liking tho! Took tons of pictures.. not sure I can upload them on here.. but I am going to put them on the Guam Moms facebook page. Welcome LisaZski and anyone else I might have missed!
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Comment by middlemom on June 5, 2017 at 3:21pm
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welcome LisaZski and ProudofNavysons - They will love Guam. My son has been there since December of 2016. He is on the USS Key West,
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Welcome! My son leaves the 20th assigned to the USS Emory Land. On our way to A school to pick up the stuff he can't carry back on the plane.
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Comment by ProudofNavySons on June 1, 2017 at 6:38pm
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Hi -- introducing myself. New to the group. My second son in the Navy just got assigned to the USS OKC in Guam and leaves the 15th from Ballston Spa. Looking forward to being a part of the group!
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