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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:

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:

RTC Graduation

**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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Navy Seals

A message to all members of Navy Dads

Endorsed by NavyDads.Com
 
All,
I’m writing to you to appeal for help. You know me and know I don’t send out mass emails about politics or spreading urban legend’s or forwarding emails for prayer chains, not that there is anything wrong with that, but I just don’t do that sort of thing. However, now I am doing a mass mailing to ask you to help out with a situation here in Hampton Roads.
As you all know, the recent crash of a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan took 31 brave souls from this earth. Many of those on board were Navy SEALs from right here in Virginia Beach. These brave sailors were our friends and neighbors and John’s shipmates. The community here is reeling. We lose sailors and soldiers from here all too often, but this is just more than folks around here can deal with. Currently we are holding a community wide drive for basic necessities for the families of these brave men. These families will need paper towels, food, school supplies and the list goes on. This is an immediate need and we in the community are doing our best to handle it. (more info at WTKR.com)
But there is a great need that will begin almost immediately. The remains of the SEAL Team 6 members will begin arriving tomorrow at Dover AFB. The families will need help. The Navy will take care of a lot of the wives and children needs in the end, but you all know that will take time. I am asking you to please do what you can by contributing money to the SEAL Foundation here in Virginia Beach. They are a great organization that is doing all they can to help out in this time of greatest need. Here is the web address to use to contribute:http://www.nswfoundation.org/donate.htm I know times are very tough for most of us, but $10 would be a great gesture to help the families of these brave souls who have given the ultimate sacrifice.
I’m not trying to bang the drum for the flag or give you some speech about the values of defending freedoms throughout the world. You have your own opinions about that. But I watched firsthand the wife of a fallen SEAL cry her eyes out, her toddler children crouching around her not know why they were sad or the reason their mom was crying. It broke my heart. Many of us know how loss like that feels. I can’t put my arms around that family, but I can give of my time and money to help insure that SEAL’s children are taken care of. You can do the same. Please help them if you can. Give what you can. It all adds up. These men did their mission. They are sailors. Sailors (and soldiers and airmen) do their job as they are told to do. That is their committment to us. We have a committment to them.

My email hasn't been hi-jacked. This is from me. Check out the Navy SEAL Foundation website for yourself before you commit if you want to. John and I have both contributed.
Thanks,
Mike
 
I ask everyone in our community here on Navy Dads to please help as you can in helping these families. Let these families know that a community exists that is willing to support in the good times as well as the bad times. If you can afford $10, great! if you can afford more, even better! This is a tragic loss to our Navy Community & we owe it to the Heroes that have given the ultimate sacrifice for us all.
Thanks,
E.G. Moore
NavyDads Creator

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Permalink Reply by Sue-Pillowcase lady on August 10, 2011 at 12:09am

I received the above message from Natalie and decided to share it here.  Lyn asked and Michele is doing the leg work for special pillowcases for the families.

 

We don't really have to chatter here, but I wanted to be able to always find this.

Permalink Reply by Paymaster on August 10, 2011 at 1:18pm
Thank for the info and link.
Permalink Reply by NitaSewBee on August 11, 2011 at 10:26am

 All I can do  is  pray for them.. I don't  have  any cash  as I am  not working. How are we  doing the  pillowcases? I know they  are going to need to be special, If you  need any help .. like  making them, and then  have  someone else embroider the info on them. let me. know  if I can  help on any way.

 

TheresaPermalink Reply by Theresa on August 11, 2011 at 2:28pm
Our governor has issued a proclamation making August 12 a day of mourning here in Virginia.  I'm hoping that all of you will join us in remembering our Navy Seals.
Permalink Reply by Sue-Pillowcase lady on August 12, 2011 at 10:39pm

that is a kind offer Nita, but they are being taken care of.

Theresa, thanks for letting us know that.

Permalink Reply by NitaSewBee on August 12, 2011 at 11:52pm
That's  good to know,  I knew  that  you ladies would see to that.. but   I figured  that  I would make the offer anyhow. Makes me feel like  I am  doing something to help.Thank you  for lrtting  me know, Sue. . and  Granny V.. thank you  for telling  me that. I  guess I didn't realize that  . Since I  don't do embroidering, I had no  idea about  how   it comes together.Now I know.
Permalink Reply by Sue-Pillowcase lady on August 13, 2011 at 10:04am
you're welcome.  we always appreciate offers of help.

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