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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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

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**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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For all the Moms(and Dads) with a Sailor in Japan

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Latest Activity: Aug 3

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Comment by Anti M on December 13, 2011 at 6:53am: Technically, all packages going out of the US federal system and into the military system are subject to the laws of the foreign host nation... even when there is none. One of those odd flukes of international diplomacy?

Packages going to Diego Garcia could be inspected by the British, if they cared to do so. I never heard that they did. I did know the military postmaster in Japan was tasked with being sure the FPO mail system was not being used for black market goods or commerce, which did crop up time to time. Folks got the idea that they could have stuff mailed to them to resell in Japan, avoiding customs. I think it was American jeans that got a dependent wife busted, too many heavy packages too often, and a wrong word about sales to the wrong person.

Comment by Kim on December 13, 2011 at 2:18am: I forgot to post my advice. I have lived in the U.S. for 21 years. My entire family are custom brokers (but me), I call over 20 family friends custom brokers "aunt or uncle", my brother was an advisor on the world wide tariffs. I have shipped/received parcels to/from Canada every year. "gift" is good, but they are only concerned with the current years buzz words. Your local post office will tell you the "buzz words" to avoid. Candy, cookies, baked goods are good.

Comment by Kim on December 13, 2011 at 2:03am: Thank you all for the pictures and updates. I have been behind in my reading, but this site is better than all my books. I loved Mar's new granddaughter and all the pictures (especially the babies and Arlington).

It is my understanding that we fill out customs forms, but the packages DO NOT go through any countries customs. The packages are handled by the U.S. military, not a foreign country. My son's ship is currently in San Diego. I still must fill out a customs form because it is going to an FPO box. I asked my post office "why do I have to fill out a custom form?" They did not know.

If a package is sent through the U.S. military to a ship currently in Norfolk, San Diego, Japan, Afghanistan, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, etc…….Why would any countries custom office need to examine the contents, when they do not have the package? The U.S. customs does not clear packages going OUT of the country. I can’t comment about what the military does about the packages.

My family business (in Canada) for the last 80 years, is a Custom Broker business. A package must go into a foreign country government port to be cleared by the foreign government customs. When I was a child the imports into Toronto was ship (outsourced), airmail, truck, rail and parcel post through the post office. Parcel post was the biggest (then) and I can tell you many stories about walking the hardwood floors of the parcel post custom building with my Grampa. I’m not getting how any port in Japan or the middle east would have any knowledge about a package to a sailor?

Comment by navymom3 on December 13, 2011 at 12:42am: Oh my gosh we are at 21 now and we need to be in the top 20 for the money. Please vote everyday and text in your vote also. Just text 110201 to 73774. Also please share on your FB page also. We need all the help we can get. http://pep.si/v0wdFc

Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on December 12, 2011 at 11:16pm: jeffiner-desert-wind - Thanks for letting us know. Wish I would have know that before I sent Katies bday gifts and then her Christmas presents.

Comment by T-Lynn on December 12, 2011 at 10:55pm: BTW - that gentle kick was for me :)

Comment by T-Lynn on December 12, 2011 at 10:55pm: HI

Thanks for the gentle kick Anti M and Blondie :)

Claudia - what Maggs said.

So now there is a slip for "not spoiling the surprise". See we learn something everyday.

I had a surprise too. Hubby came home at noon. And he will be coming home at noon the rest of the week. This way he can keep up with things at work - collect his driving pay and still uses up his vacations days. Works.

Wish all sweet dreams and hugs

Comment by jeffiner-desert-wind on December 12, 2011 at 9:37pm: I asked the postmaster about getting around not spoiling the suprise and he gave me a slip of paper that he said all I have to write on the contents section of the customs form. It says...CERTIFIED TO BE A BONIFIDE GIFT, PERSONAL EFFECTS,OR ITEMS FOR PERSONAL USE OF MILITARY PERSONNEL &DEPENDENTS.

Comment by navymom3 on December 12, 2011 at 8:09pm: My son is a spook also. So after he gets there and I send a package if he opens it at work he can't take anything back home with him? Is that how I read that. When he was at school they couldn't bring anything into the compound.

Comment by Anti M on December 12, 2011 at 7:52pm: That's an easy one to get around... let her know a surprise for at home package is coming, and have a slightly different way to put her name on it so she knows not to peek at the slip. Add or subtract her middle initial or something like that. She's a spook, she should know ways of doing stuff like this.