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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 T-Lynn on February 26, 2016 at 10:09pm
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Hi
New moms - believe this or not - but honest this is true. After a month - you will KNOW its our sailor calling by the sound of the ring. For real! You can ask the other moms here - you will know. And when my sailor was there - he would just call . He would be so excited about something he would forget - we all would be asleep. WE just got up - put on a pot of coffee and talked.
I turned 61 on last Tuesday. And my aunt Alice told me a long time ago to - a birthday is celebrated for 7 days! Well, I am still celebrating and a special present will be walking in the door in about an hour. You all guessed it - My sailor!!!!
He was sent to Indiana for some classes and he is close enough to run away from teh weekend. Turns out there are three other sailors in the class and all have family near by. So all of them are running away this weekend. Note - they all have the weekends off.
I will try and get a pic of my sailor while he is here.
Other than that - Riker did make my hair go shocking white today. he fell face first - luckily on the rug and not the hard floor. Well he got his first bloody lip. I cried more than he did.And now you never know he hit the floor. guess that is why boys are nicked named "bouncing"
Well, I need to get along, Got to get my arms ready for that FIRST HUG! hugs to all here too
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Comment by tytulip40 on February 25, 2016 at 1:50pm
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I have their weather on my bookmarks, it shows 14 hrs ahead, and google confirms it so it must be true! hahaha I'm in Ft. Lauderdale (the area of the country that doesn't experience winter).
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Comment by scully_the_skeptic on February 24, 2016 at 10:23pm
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And tytulip its 17 hr time diff for you - I'm 51 & still can't add! 6a Japan will be 11p Seattle. So sorry.
They're still ahead so 921p on 2/24 here in Indiana is 1121a on 2/25 there.
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What anti m said! Spot on on all counts. ;) and I hear ya tytulip on the goofy things - a new special ;)
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Comment by Anti M on February 24, 2016 at 7:19pm
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Flights to Japan take ten hours one direction, and closer to 12 the other. Something about the jet stream. But most of the time they are so beat when they hit the ground, and they don't have the right phone coverage, that they don't call home for a day or two or three.
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Thanks scully - your time description is much better than mine! My sailor and I have this game where he'll message me when it's midnight over there on holidays and birthdays - the goofy, little things are always the big things when they are so far away!
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ok, let me try this again - seattle to japan is an 11 hr time diff, they are ahead. from here its 14 hours so I generally get calls at 5:50a (its 7:50p there) or 3:30p & its 5:30a there. upside down but just opposite enough to work. :)
we use whatsapp on our phones. its free calls & texts.
sailor is based in Yokosuka and our marine is in Okinawa - we use whatsapp with both of them. and of course you can use face time and Skype. email only when the sailor is underway (he's assigned to the Chancellorsville). and he found that gmail doesn't work very well.
sailor is loving it over there.
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From Ft Lauderdale it's 14 hrs - we chat late at night and early morning - while I'm sleeping he's working! Lol
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Comment by tnmom50 on February 23, 2016 at 8:31pm
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my son will arrive in atsugi tonight some time I hope I will be able to figure this time change out .I be glad to get his call I made it mom.then the biggest call is next time he calls I love it mom
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@tnmom50 - my son is at Atsugi. I wanna say its about 10 hours. Welcome to the club! My son has been there since Sept - he loves it!
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