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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:
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 Kim on April 10, 2009 at 11:40am
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What is the card version of the passport? Can anyone get it? We travel to Canada several times a year. I keep our passports in the safe. I would love to have a card for my wallet.
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I sent my son an email this morning that contained alot of love and support and questions about his passport, cell phone and packages. I just received a return email. It said "Hi mom!!!" grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. But I love him.
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Comment by T-Lynn on April 10, 2009 at 10:42am
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Carol and Julia -
So happy to hear that you are planning trips to see your salilors. I have been emailing my son about the need of the two different passports and he shared he already has them and the reason why for the need of both. ( Thanks Anitt and Melia) for sharing that information too And he said - as Kathleen shared - sailors can get the passports on base. Sorry, I don't knwo who to contact on a base - maybe Jessica would know? Have to share - received a an email from my son last night! I printed it out to keep rereading it. Have no idea when I will hear from him again. But this time in the email I could his voice and it was diffeerent. Proud - confident - grown up. Just wantting to share. Have a great day every one:) ! Terry
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I have been bugging my son to get his passport for 2 years. He was already in the Navy when they put the restrictions on travelling out of the country. I have since gotten passports for the rest of the family. Currently, we need a passport to fly to Canada. Eventually, we will need one to drive there. Jonathan has a Canadian birth certificate but the navy made him denounce his Canadian citizenship to pass his security clearance when becoming an FC.
He took all that documentation with him. He needs his birth certificate and U.S. citizenship papers to get a passport. Does anyone know if there is a place on base for him to get that done? Security and passports requirements are changing all the time. I'm afraid one day his ship will pull into a foreign port and he will have to stay on the ship.
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Wow, I am so exited for both of you. I am so jealous. Where are your son/daughter stationed. I can't figure out how to know when they will be there. Carol, I sent you a personal message because I realized you live down the street from where I work.
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Comment by Anti M on April 10, 2009 at 9:32am
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Spring and Autumn are very good times of year to visit. Winter is a little too cold, and summer is just too hot and humid
And it rains every season.
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Good Morning :)!
We have a beautiful sunny and warm day. Wish the same for all. Anti, if you had not mentioned about the barge being in the picture - I would not have seen it. And Proud Texas Moms - thank you sharing that picture. Makes my day :). Have a good one. And please ladies - still keep teaching me. I am creating a note book - I have too many loose papers. talk later - Terry
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I get so homesick when I see those cherry blossoms. That park overlooks the bay and Monkey Island. The ship you can see in the background is off base, it is a car hauler cargo ship. In August, they bring barges to the bay and have a giant fireworks competition over the water. Thousands of fireworks, business groups vie for the best display, one after another. Ninety minutes or more, right above your head! The base is the best place for viewing them. Spoiled me for stateside fireworks forever.
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Jessica, can you explain to me what an Ombudsman does. I noticed on the web site for my sons ship that there was an ombudsman.
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Look what you have done. You have started the book. A book of knowledge and caring. Not only for our sailors, but for us Navy Moms. I know I NEED this education, to know where to look and yes - those KEY words to type in. And I have never felt that anyone sharing this information has been impolite. What everyone has shared is needed. To have sources and key words to use -our sailors to LEARN to be self reliante and for us moms/families to know about possible dangerous situations and how a host coountry feels about US Military bases in their countries. As Melia shared onced with us. Please, continue to share and educate us. The better we moms become in this knowledge - the better we become for our sailors. I am resting easier - thank you Terry
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