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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 Anti M on October 20, 2016 at 1:58pm
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The good news is that a lost wallet in Japan is almost assuredly going to be returned. While another American might make off with it, or some other international traveler, any Japanese national will likely turn it in. Have him call the airport during business hours, and let them know.
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Comment by VirgoMom904 on October 20, 2016 at 1:57pm
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Hello Sailor Moms! Thanks for your reply's concerning when sailors can take time off, Momof2, my daughter is in Yokosuka and has been there for a year come January. I will be very happy if she does get to come home in April. I will take any amount of time I can get. Now, when they return to the States, do they book and pay for their flights? Do they need a passport?
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Comment by NavyMum on October 20, 2016 at 12:33pm
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If he's cancelled his bank/credit cards and reported the loss to the bank/credit card companies/military, then there's really nothing else to do until morning anyway. He can call the airports/airlines in the morning (business hours) to check lost and found. He can contact Social Security and DMV once he gets to base and it's business hours stateside. At this point, he needs to get to base, get some sleep, and start the indoc for the base. The lack of money/id isn't nearly as big an emergency for a Sailor as is for a civilian - he still has a place to sleep (barracks/ship), a place to eat (galley) and people to help him out (sponsor, chain of command etc...).
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Comment by Momof2 on October 20, 2016 at 12:19pm
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Thanks but he asked and they told him to cancel everything (which he did already), and that these things happen. Which of course I know, but while he may be an adult that doesn't help when it's the middle of the night in a foreign country and his sponsor nor anyone else at least at the moment is available to help him. Thanks for your reminder though.
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((((Hugs)))) It will be OK. If your son is a sailor, then he's an adult (I know, he'll always be your baby) and HE can handle this - and there is Navy support to help him. You don't need to - your job is to reassure him that it'll be okay and to let HIM take charge.
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I need emergency advice!!! My son just got to Japan a few hours ago. Of course it's the middle of the night there. He lost his wallet. He last had it for sure at Customs in the Tokyo/Narita airport. He reported it lost when he got to Sasebo and has filled out the paperwork for a new military ID, however, his drivers license AND his social security card were in there. He was told to bring his Social Security card and I was against that to begin with, but the military mak...es the rules. I can cancel his bank card and his credit card, but I thought I could call the airport and see if it was turned in? I've never called international so the number is: +81(0)476-34-8000. Do i just call all those numbers or do I have to use the + key too? I'm freaking out here and I will also call the airline in case it fell out on the last plane ride to Fukuoka airport. Please help. He's 18 and in a foriegn country now with no money or ID.
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Momof2 - hang in there. It really does get better. the hardest part for me was waiting to hear from her once she got to Japan. Once I knew she was there, I trusted that she was taken care of. We Skype every week when she is on land. When she is on the boat, she emails me when she can... sometimes I don't hear from her for weeks, and then sometimes I hear from her a couple of times a week.
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My son left this morning for Sasebo. Three year tour as an MA. I fell apart on the way home and haven't stopped yet. First tour.
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I don't write on here often, but I receive your comments through my email...and I truly missed all of you while the sight was down. I felt lonely. Isn't it intersting that you don't even know me, but I feel so connected to all of you. The Navy Mom bond is strong.
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Comment by DREW7062 on October 19, 2016 at 7:33am
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Virgo mom - Anti M is great she can answer almost any question you have and will get back to you in a timely manner.goodkuck
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