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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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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Japan Moms

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

Members: 688
Latest Activity: May 27

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Comment by T-Lynn on January 8, 2015 at 5:51pm

Happy New Year

Welcome Aboard new Moms. Share more gossip - love it

Maggs - so sorry you had that flu. I heard it is nasty. Good luck with Angel. I thought you purchased special gloves to handle her.

Yippe Jack is better !  Keep warm blondie

Will try to post pictures . I just got to get the hang of it.

No baby here yet.

 Still those faults pain, but getting more and more.

Figures we are at negative temps that were bad enough to close teh schools for two days. 

So I have been trying to get my to do list done. But today i decided to get pneumonia, but only in the right lung. I might not get to work tomorrow.  Hey all - going to rest up now 

At least I can send hugs

Comment by Anti M on January 8, 2015 at 9:20am

She should apply for a passport now, on her own dime. Do not wait. This will speed things up, even though a name change later is a hassle. Do not wait for a Navy no fee one.

Comment by Anti M on January 8, 2015 at 9:18am

Oops 

... There is a good chance the CS waiver will be approved. I have seen it go either way. This is why so many couples rush to marry in a courthouse during A school, to be on the orders. If they could change them, it would be no big deal. But they can't.

Comment by Anti M on January 8, 2015 at 9:14am

Okay, I am on a mobile, so I can't do links, but look through my page and find my blog on command sponsorship. 

The Navy will not amend his orders just because he got married. Too late to switch to accompanied. He is eligible to have a dependent there, but at this point he has to go without her, and apply for a command sponsorship waiver.  Be warned, these take time.  She cannot just go there, unless she is SOFA sponsored, housing is not provided.  

Once the waiver is approved, if it is, then she must pass an overseas screening, primarily health and criminal checks. Then the Navy will move her. They will be assigned base housing, usually a two bedroom apartment. Because he is an E-4, and at the beginning of his assignment 

Comment by Cheryl-TedsMom on January 8, 2015 at 7:54am

Brrrrr. -1 this morning. Delayed school openings, subways breakingdown. It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood.

Comment by navymom3 on January 7, 2015 at 11:33pm

My son was able to get an apartment at E4 but it depends on where they work and if all there stuff is done and there behavior. Plus how full are the barracks. I would make sure he gets her added to his orders as soon as they are married. A spouse has to be command sponsored in order to bring her over. I wish them luck. They will however love Japan. Once she gets to go they will not make them both live in the ship. He would be the only one allowed to live in the ship.

Comment by Mary on January 7, 2015 at 11:03pm

Thanks again Kim. I'll wait for AntiM to add me as a friend.

Comment by Mary on January 7, 2015 at 10:23pm

Thank you Kim!

He is E-4. They are getting married in a couple of weeks. He'll add her to his orders as soon as they are married. I didn't know they could live on the ship. How does that work?

Do they get a 1 bedroom apartmnent close to base or?

Comment by Kim on January 7, 2015 at 10:06pm

Welcome Mary.  AntiM will have all the details.

I know that she must be on his orders for the Navy to pay to move her.  She is not going to be able to move to Japan unless she is on his orders or has her own work visa to be there.  Visitors can only stay in Japan for 3 months. 

What is his rank?  My son went over as an E4.  No housing, they lived on the ship.  At E5 he got an apartment.

Comment by Mary on January 7, 2015 at 7:34pm

Hi everyone,

My son got orders to Japan when he's finished with school soon. He will be getting married before he ships. I imagine this will be a problem with housing since he received orders before he's married.  Any tips would be helpful.  Thanks!

 

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