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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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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Japan Moms

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

Members: 690
Latest Activity: Apr 29

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Comment by Kim on April 10, 2009 at 8:02pm: NO, you must fill out the form. My family's business (it is in Canada) is the customs brokers business. You do not want a package held because a form is missing. No matter how dumb it may seem, no matter if you could get it past a postal worker, alway fill out the required forms.

Comment by Pat B on April 10, 2009 at 7:51pm: Help!!! I have been sending packages to Kat in Okinawa for the past 5months. Most packages take at least 5 weeks to get there. My post office makes me put on a custom form for every package. I am using her FPO address. Do I need this form???? Would it get there sooner without it?
I know all about those lovely emails or im's you pour your heart out and she writes lol or haha........but I sure missed that when she was on a mission and nothing for 3 weeks:(

Comment by Anti M on April 10, 2009 at 1:55pm: If the sailor's ship is homeported in Japan, they can travel anywhere in country on just their military ID card. They only need a passport to go to other countries, not just travel outside of Yokosuka. MND, is your daughter's ship homported in Yoko? She'll not need a passport for Tokyo if that is the case.

Comment by Kim on April 10, 2009 at 12:47pm: I just checked out the passport card. I would have to mail my passport back and pay a fee to get it. I will wait until I renew my passport. It is not good for air travel so I would need to travel with my passport anyway. Just in case I had to fly home on emergency. But this was good information MoaND. I urge anyone who does not have a passport to get one. There is still a wait of at least 6 weeks (it was 6 months at one time). There is still expedited sevice, but it is expensive. It's not that expensive to renew it every 10 years. I have had mine since I was 16.

Comment by Kim on April 10, 2009 at 12:11pm: I just received another email with lots of information. Best email that I have received from him. He seems happy. He received his package before they got underway. This is the first time in a year that I have caught him online. This has made my day.

Comment by T-Lynn on April 10, 2009 at 11:43am: Yes, please give more information about this card.

Comment by Kim on April 10, 2009 at 11:40am: 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.

Comment by Kim on April 10, 2009 at 11:36am: 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.

Comment by T-Lynn on April 10, 2009 at 10:42am: 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

Comment by Kim on April 10, 2009 at 10:25am: 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.