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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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Anyone from Iowa who has a loved one in the Navy
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Latest Activity: Feb 25, 2021
Discussion Forum
October happenings in the Quad-Cities
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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on February 4, 2009 at 7:47pm
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Sounds good to me. Let's put it on the calendar! Any Iowa mom that wants to come is welcome!
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Hang in there, moms! It just gets better though there will be times of difficulty. The Navy is the Navy and sometimes they will frustrate you and your sailor...but it's like any job. The Navy has lost my son't service record; at least no one knows where it is! But he's reporting today as an instructor at GL. Eventually I'll find out exactly what he's doing there. Hopefully, he can be a good resource to us. Is anyone interested in breakfast or lunch on Valentine's Day? I'll be in Grinnell on Friday night (the 13th) at my aunt's 80th birthday party and to see my parents.
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I just heard from the recruiter again. He said drop the Virginia line and use only the FPO zip because that will work no matter what.
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Ramona, I asked one of the recruiters here about that address--hope you don't mind because I want Andrew to get mail! Here's what he said (his name is Andy, too)--No this is not right. You have two options here. Use the FPO if you are not sure whether the ship is in port or not. Use the normal zip code (mail will arrive faster this way) if you are sure the ship is in port.
Now he does not indicate his rate/paygrade, but does he live in the barracks or out in town? Not many people left in the navy are living exclusively on the ship.
Navy Andy
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Romona, why does the address have two zip codes? Not saying this is wrong, just never seen an address like this.
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Romona, why don't you click on that "send message to group" above and send us his address. Don't you think we should all send him a card? When I think about missing my kid, I think about my dad and uncle in WWII and how there was so little contact with their mom. My mom talks about missing her brother during WWII also. I'm of the era when letters and tape reels (!) were what we had for our brothers and boyfriends in Vietnam. At least now when he can get to a computer or phone, it's a lot easier than in the past! It doesn't make you feel better, I know, but I just think about my grandma and the strength she had being a widow with little kids at home and boys in the Pacific and Europe.
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Post a valentine to your sailor at http://messages.stripes.osd.mil/ for free. I just did the on-line one as the other choices are European, Pacific, and Middle East editions of the newspaper.
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Andy has had the same experience--no friends here really anymore or ones that understand. Probably about a year ago before his second deployment, he went out in uniform to "the district" where all the bars are. He didn't drink in uniform, I don't think, doesn't drink much anyway, but he got lots of attention from the young women. He was tickled that one he went to school with was so nice to him. She is a nice girl (we've known the family for years), but they certainly didn't run in the same crowd at school--the ADD boy and the gifted and talented girl. Thankfully, she is genuinely a nice girl, so they had a good time for those few hours. He had changed, more confidence, and he is cute! When he comes home now, he's more into visiting family and family friends than finding people his own age to hang with. I know when I go home to visit in Brooklyn, I know almost no one except those kinds of people now.
You're right, Ethan is experiencing adult life. Andy has finally figured out "that this, too, shall pass" and things get better. I think that's why the Navy tries to keep them busy--so much cleaning!
Go read my response on GM Moms about how the Navy operates. You'll hear more from your son yet before he's content! You just have to listen because we can't fix anything now.
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I just got home from going to see "Dancing with the Stars" at the i-wireless in Moline. I got the tickets from Josh NC1 who belongs to this group. He and his wife are in Washington DC so he can accept his award for being THE recruiter of the year! He won the tickets from a radio station and then realized he wouldn't be in town. Do send him a message about being Recruiter of the Year, plus he reenlisted this week, too. I'm sorry to say that he's moving to the Cincinnati area in June--Iowa is losing a great guy.
Michelle, I've lost track. Where is Ethan now? Great Lakes or Florida?
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Michelle, hang in there. You know kids, being a teacher. They'll push the limits, but find their ways back. Andy and drugs--he loves the Navy too much to even think about it. Andy, too, smoked for awhile. Boredom and the fact that so many others did influenced him. He's never been a huge drinker--one time on leave he decided he wanted to just get plastered so he and a Navy friend took a bottle, rented a hotel room, and stayed the night. We knew he was safe. Most of the time now, he's the designated driver. I knew he had grown up and we had raised him (we wondered sometimes!) when he was deployed the first time. He called from Naples where they had liberty, but had to stay with shore buddies. He was SO mad! His buddies wanted to do nothing more than sit in a bar; he wanted to get on the train and go see Pompeii.
The latest frustration which is rather small in comparison to everything that is really good now--he's been asking for his service records off the ship since before he left Afghanistan in December. Norfolk keeps asking him for them and blaming him that they aren't there. He kept trying to call the ship which is deployed when he found out that weren't there yet. Just yesterday he finally got confirmation that they were sending them. He's got orders to Great Lakes, so that won't change, but not having his service record puts a glitch in other things. That's the Navy!
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