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

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Comment by Pat B on May 2, 2009 at 3:45pm
Debi ..you're son is aircrew what does he do, what type of aircraft? My daughter Kathryn is aircrew as well
Comment by T-Lynn on May 2, 2009 at 1:38pm
Thank you.
Will be getting out my notebook and placing infomration in that. Easier for me to see. By the way, I a received a message from Anita - new Navy Mom with son in Japan. She asked how I removed my last name, I did the best I could in explaining, but told her to please come to this site if she is having trouble and talk with you :). Melia and Anti M - wish you two could get together and create a class. An actual class - where we Moms ( and Dad) could come for Navy 101. Not only would it be helpful, but just think of the gossip session! And getting actual hugs. Asking alot - but I would could use it. Just learned what chit means. Paperwork When my son first said that word to me - when he was in BC with a very bad cold - it did not sound like Chit! Now just think about this: your a mom - only get a few seconds on the phone with your child in BC - hearing how sick he is and can't get to him to make him better and then he says he will getting/earning a chit card - but hearing something else and wondering why the Navy is giving out cards so sailors can use the toilet. Yes, I know better now. I know - you both are shaking your heads. But a class would be so beneficial. Just a thought. T:)
Comment by Anti M on May 2, 2009 at 1:13pm
Travel time on leave is counted as part of the leave time. And they want to have plenty of elbow room coming back to base in case a flight is delayed or canceled. When they are traveling on orders, that travel time is different. Leave is personal, so the travel time is on their own time.

They earn 2.5 days each month. Sailors in A school normally cannot take leave except around the holidays when the schools go into stand down. Even if they are on hold, they normally cannot take leave. Leave is more common between C school (if they have one) and their next duty station. Then they usually get around two weeks, the full 30 days is unusual.

On my homepage, you can see my blogs, I have one explaining many things about leave and how it is different from liberty.
Comment by T-Lynn on May 2, 2009 at 11:49am
Question - when on leave and they have to fly to get home - that is counted on their leave? Try to make myself clearer here. Travel time is part of leave time - right?
Comment by T-Lynn on May 2, 2009 at 11:46am
Beautiful Morning Everyone !
I laughed so hard about the sailors seeing your husband Melia. And Anti M - that was a Kodac moment! Gee - walking and talking on the phone too? One funny moment I remember with my son - right after graduation from BC - my son having a scoll on his face because he couldn't have a beer. And his dad and 2 friends told him they would drink an extra just for him. No - I didn't have my camera ready - missed it. But I did call relatives about this and some sent pictures to him - pictures of relatives drinking an extra beer for him. That will be the page titled " Here's one for You" in his memory book. And that book is still in outline stage. Oh - I have a question - my son shared that he had not been sea sick at all, until he was told to take the sea sick pill. Then he got sea sick. What's up with that? And ditto on queston about leave. take care T;Lynn
Comment by Anti M on May 2, 2009 at 10:17am
LOL, I chewed out some sailors once at Disneyworld. This is back when the Navy had three boot camps, one of them was in Orlando. It was quite common for newly graduated recruits to go to Disneyworld. Far less common for families to go to graduation. I was going to school in Georgia on a military base, we'd taken leave and were down in Orlando. I went into the bathroom and there were three female sailors there. They were in front of the mirror making their uniforms more sexy and letting down their hair. I quietly washed my hands and proceeded to scare the snot out them by saying GET BACK IN UNIFORM ASAP! They thought the base sent spies out, LOL! Any petty officer can tell any junior sailor to correct their appearance.
Comment by T-Lynn on May 1, 2009 at 7:44pm
Hi,
Debi, just read your comment about the grand kids moving in. My family HAD to move in with my mother - medical reasons. And YES - there will be pulling out of hair - at times - but if you were to talk with my mother - 89 this coming Halloween - she will share all the fun moments. I just suggest a long talk between adults and set up rules. It works, until Grammy breaks them - because she says so! My boys and their friends are STILLED spoile by her! But they spoil her too. Then when your sister calls with any stories ( fun- upsetting - outrages) jot them down in a journal - these make great stories at family reunions and possible great story lines for a new soap opera you can write. And with the money you will make from a new soap opers - you can pay for all if Navy for Moms and Dad cruise! All Navy Moms and Dad who agree, that with the monies that Debi will make from her upcoming soap opera - she can pay for the fun cruise for all of us - comment back ; " Anchors Away !! " Have a wonderful May Day - and Lei Day ! T-Lynn
PS No news from the USS Chicken Pox.
Comment by Anti M on May 1, 2009 at 6:39pm
The trick with cruises is to book them last minute. The cruise lines discount the cruise rather than sail with empty rooms.
Comment by Anti M on May 1, 2009 at 1:50pm
Yeah, I can see how that would slow you down. A cruise instead? That's how we got there... the Navy used to transport families that way if they didn't want to fly. Not anymore, too bad. It was way cool for a kid.
Comment by Anti M on May 1, 2009 at 11:12am
Debi, trips to Hawaii go on sale all the time. Save the pennies up!

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