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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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Comment by Kaye S. on November 21, 2008 at 2:03pm
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I don't know that I'd want my son and his girlfriend engaged in "hot hugging!"
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Heck yeah, we got beds! I've got three empty queen-sized beds! Two are in our large finished basement (nice and warm down there, promise!) and one in my son's room (but everyone likes Navy decor, right?!).
Hmmmm... let's see, with you, girlfriend, and me all wanting hug-time, perhaps we can work out a 20-minute shift rotation since Andrew only has two arms. Would that be called "hot armming" (like "hot racking" only with arms)?!!
And Winona, you'd better start working out those arms and lips right now, or you may collapse from exhaustion trying to hug and kiss everyone at Christmas! (Wait, that might get you out of doing the dishes ;-D )
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Some of you may have already read this in "Nuke Moms," but my son called today to tell us he advanced! He's now a Petty Officer 2nd class (also an E-5 and a MM2)! He's on the sub Alabama in Bangor, WA... this will be the 2nd Christmas without him, but we may go out in March for spring break. I try to be a brave mommy, but he's my "cuddly" one and I miss his hugs :-(
OK, enough wallowing... ;-) Looking forward to a get-together in February! ks.
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Comment by Pat on November 17, 2008 at 7:41pm
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Lori,
Got the message via email...and yes we definately need to have a get together and February sounds like a great time. I believe that Indy would be a central location...Seems like we have a number of moms in the Evansville area and quite a few in N. Indiana, and a handful in the middle. Greater Indy would be approx two hours for the majority. As far as a suggestion for Indy...I'm not from there, so hopefully someone else closer would be able to suggest some good alternatives. As a working mom...weekends would be better for me, but I would make the attempt for whatever the majority would like. If we wait till later in the spring we could picnic at a park or do a family day at the zoo.
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Comment by Anita5JS5 on October 29, 2008 at 2:10am
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Hi Hoosiers, Chris got his cammies today and he's pretty happy about it. He sent me the pic via his phone, and I love it. We leave in nine days for A school graduation. Funny thing, he told me with windchill it got down to 34 at night with windchill in Gulfport Mississippi. We are going to Missippi to bring him home for almost three weeks. Yaaaayyyyy! He's exited about going to Calfifornia for his next orders.
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Phone calls are at the discretion of the RDCs. My son's RCDs were almost plain mean... Other than the arrival phone call and the call to tell me Battlestations was over, I only got ONE call. It was during week 5, for 20 minutes and he cried the whole time.
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Where in Texas, Donnita? And congratulations!
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Ooops! Forgot to mention that I feel like an "old-timer" since Sept 20 was my son's second anniversary in the Navy, and it seems most of you have new recruits or new sailors. I don't know much, but what I do I'm happy to share.
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Hi, Ladies!
I'm new to Indiana (moved here from Texas in June), living in Avon, outside of Indy. My son's in Bangor, WA on the sub USS ALABAMA. Would like to hear from anyone nearby. I don't know anyone yet...
Roll Tide! (ALABAMA's motto)
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Oh my goodness. The song only works on the page its posted on. Bummer. Hi everyone... Chris is doing alright in Gulport. He finally classed up, reached phase 2 and I had to send some clothes and shoes. His A school graduation is Nov 7 (tentative date for now), so I guess I'll be mapquesting Mississippi. I imagine I'll hit 65 South for a while. Chris wants to ride home with me for his leave after A school and not buy a plane ticket. Is there any truth to the statement that the Navy reimburses plane tickets for the Sailors and if so when and what for? If anyone knows? Thanks Hoosiers.
Anita
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