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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 DREW7062 on October 19, 2016 at 7:32am
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Virgo mom I know how you feel my son is stationed in Yokosuka Japan he left for Japan in August 2015 he did not come home for Christmas or Thanksgiving in 2015 so I didn't see him all of that year. he did come home finally in July 2016 so it was almost a year before I saw him and I was like out of my mind crazy but he came home in July for two weeks those days go by fast because I think you gain a day when you come to the states and then you lose a day going back to Japan so technically he was only here for about 12 days or so but anyway he wants to come back for Christmas of this year he's going to put a chit in. I don't know how that's gonna work but I hope you get to come back and get to come back for Christmas if he does I'll see him twice this year. I know how you feel I know you miss your daughter but remember she's in good hands and she will be OK you will too because last Christmas in 2015 I was so depressed but I did talk to him. If there are any errors please excuse them because I'm talking I'm not typing technology nowadays wow good luck to you and your daughter Drew
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Comment by Anti M on October 19, 2016 at 7:25am
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Hi VirgoMom,
I was the one stationed in Japan, not my sailor (my nephew, who is a nuke). Christmas can be difficult for them to take enough leave to go all the way home. A lot depends on what the command or ship is doing,what her job is and who else can do it, and who else needs to take leave. The people who have been there longer and have leave on the books which is about to expire are given priority.
Honestly, the only time I got a full 30 days was when transferring between overseas commands. My parents loved Japan though, and came to visit several times. Two weeks is about all they let them take at once. April is better traveling weather though!
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Comment by VirgoMom904 on October 19, 2016 at 12:23am
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Anti M, Hello, was wondering when and for how long your son was able to go home for visits? My daughter will be almost a year in Japan and I was hoping she would get a Christmas break but she said it's not gonna happen, the earliest is around April for maybe two weeks. I miss her terribly and I know it's a sacrifice military families make but I am so ready to see her. :/
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Thank you Anti-m
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Kim, they are not getting rid of the "man", because they still use Seaman. They are switching from word designations which are abbreviated (Electronics Technician or ET). to numeric designators (NOS) similar to the MOS used in the Army and Air Force. Yes, it throws all tradition out the window and is greatly annoying and just plain dumb. The supposed reason is to help civilian employers know what a sailor was trained to do. I'm sorry, Electronics Tech was pretty self-explanatory, and we had NECs for our specialties. Change for the sake of change. Our tax dollars wasted.
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Comment by Kim on October 18, 2016 at 8:12pm
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Scully, I was looking into us doing the laying of wreaths together.......If I win the lottery, we will all go to Hawaii.
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Comment by scully_the_skeptic on October 18, 2016 at 7:55pm
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i believe they do a laying of the wreaths in Hawaii too.
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i wondered why i wasn't seeing any posts. was missing this group.
my son is in yokosuka. he's assigned to a cruiser and his orders are for 2 years. if that helps.
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Drew, Most of the Corpsmen have been 2 years on this site. My son was 3 year orders in Japan, 2 years San Diego, 3 years shore duty and now 5 year orders in San Diego.
I am so glad that we are back together. I only have a few of you on facebook and private emails.
Maggs, do you still do the "laying of the wreaths" in D.C. We should try a new "meeting of the N4Moms". I would love Gettysburg more, but D.C. sounds like it would work.
Have you all heard that they are changing the Navy Rates. They are eliminating the "man". I thought we all knew 40 years ago that man meant women too. They are coming up with great alternatives.
They are also changing the abbreviations. My son hates it. He was FC1 and now PO1.
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Drew, it could be two years. Be pleased if it is two!
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