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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 January 7, 2015 at 10:33am
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I promise to not get carried away with pictures.
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Six days old.
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My DIL sent me some pictures. I am only posting 3. Sailor in hospital.
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Comment by Bobbie on January 6, 2015 at 11:38am
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Anti M, I've been trying to absorb as much info on it as I can. I did read the blog that you wrote on it. Complicating all of it further is the fact that she is a foreign national. She is taking her citizenship test in a few months but it's a process for sure. I'm trying to give him the best advice possible but, wow, it's a lot. I did tell him not to get his hopes up that she will be able to join him there in Japan but we will see what happens. My thoughts are that if they can make it through what the next 3 or 4 years brings, then they will have a pretty good foundation for learning to live with separations and being flexible with whatever life throws them. She is used to long separations with her family because a lot of them are still in Vietnam so if that translates over to their marriage, she might do ok with the Navy life.
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Comment by Anti M on January 5, 2015 at 9:25pm
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Bobbie, if your sailor plans to take a spouse to Japan, he needs to know about command sponsorship. It can be tricky. I have a blog on here explaining the basics, but I am mobile and can't link it.
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Cheryl, my son has only been a recruiter for a year and in NY state. It is his shore duty. He had 1.5 years of A and C schools, then 5.5 years of sea duty. This is allowing him to go to school to get the 30 credits he needs for a commissioning program. Hopefully he will apply in the fall, but he has to take this semester off because of the baby.
Maggs, I think that is their plan too. They are not saying, but he has dropped hints. Maybe, they will alternate countries. They like moving to new places too and I know they would love to go to Germany.
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Comment by Cheryl-TedsMom on January 5, 2015 at 3:16pm
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Busmom and Youngestson - you are getting some great advice. Also email is better than texting (if you can text to a Japanese cellphone) & there is no charge for email (which they can get on their phones. My sailor says that is what everyone does over there. Also there is a unit change for texting. A box is always open & waiting for stuff @ our house. But remember space is at a premium - concentrate on consumables and SMALL, along with things that they won't feel bad having to leave behind or dispose of. Mine is always looking for COOKIES and the shelf stored bacon!!
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Quick question for KIM was your sailor a recruiter in Mass. in 2013 ? My son's original recruiter had an Irish name & was from PA but he was transferred back to PA in 2013 before my son left for PIR. If so, small world.
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Got the sailor back to GL yesterday. Wasn't quite ready for that and knowing that the next "see you later" will be when he heads to Japan. A mom that I got to know when the boys were in boot camp just put her son on his Japan flight New Year's Eve. Not ready for that but it's going to be coming up soon. My son got engaged while he was home for stand down so we'll see how that will work out for a 2016 wedding. Just not sure what to expect for any type of leave for him in the future.
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TLynn, I can't wait for the baby announcement.
Maggs, glad you are feeling better. I laughed when I read that you rested up until New Years.
I can't believe how big Nolan has gotten. I love the picture.
Congrats to your daughter Blondie. I bet you will enjoy planning the wedding.
Welcome new moms. Busmom, I am near you in PA. My sailor is 1 hour north of you. He is currently a recruiter in Peekskill and married to a woman he met in Japan. He is on paternity leave right now.
Once a Japan mom, always a Japan mom. New moms are always welcome. Jump in a tell us about your sailor and yourself.
The flat rate boxes are great. I always had a box open on my dining room table. As soon as it was mailed, I started on the next one.
The baby is doing well. We came home last night. He isn't eating much and is jaundice. They kept him an extra day to Saturday to monitor. Today he sees the doctor. Yesterday was supposed to be the worst day, even his eyes were yellow. I am waiting to hear the update.
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