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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
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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Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on October 29, 2010 at 10:18am
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Thanks, Joanne and Lori, I feel so much better now. No letter yet and I don't have his division yet, so I can't send mine. :( A lot of other moms, whose children left the same day have theirs. My son's recruiter said sometime's they don't get it for a week. (which would mean I have to wait until Mon) I don't believe that, so I'm planting myself in the recruiting office today and I won't leave until I have it. lol I want to start sending him letters, I don't want him to have to wait to get letters, when everyone else is getting them.
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Comment by lori on October 29, 2010 at 5:57am
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Betsy- weird? Not at all! You will savor his smell for as long as it still smells like him! Since the weather was warm when my son left and then he had to be in those same clothes for 3 days by the time I opened that box it was more the smell of sweat and dirty shoes! But I still like to smell his clean clothes cause it reminds me of him!
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Lori, I opened it only because I wanted to see the clothing that I last saw him in. I closed it right back up, so I can savor his smell. Is that weird?
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that was quick betsy. And you opened right away! It took me 2 weeks before I could and by then it was a little "ripe"!!!
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I just got "the box". I can't believe it came that quick! It smells like my boy. :( My husband called from MD, while I was carrying the box from the front door. I was so happy that he did. I opened it while we were on the phone. Yes, I'm very emotional right now.
Betsy
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Pam, thanks. That is great. Who knows, maybe one day we will be neighbors?
birknma, thank you, not much selling right now, but we are hopeful.
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Lori, thanks! I'm doing pretty well, so far. My husband takes the train to DC from Columbia right now, so we are actually looking in the Ellicott City or Severn area.
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Betsy- welcome! and how are you doing with just sending your son off to BC? We hope to see more of you on here.
Hopefully your house will sell soon. Will you live in DC or MD when you move here?
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Thank you, Cindy. I can't wait to get to know everyone.
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Hello, ladies. Technically, right now I am a NM, but I am originally from MD and hopefully in about 4 months, I will be back there for (My husband was relocated to DC in Feb and I'm living in NM while we sell the house) We have 5 children and it is my youngest son is a newbie at boot camp, after us sending him off on Monday, Oct. 25. I would love to get to know you all. I plan on being very active on here. It will be great to get to know all of you.
Betsy
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