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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 lori on August 20, 2010 at 9:38am
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Betsy, soon as you get the form letter from your son it will have the PIR date on it. But best hold off until around 2-3 weeks before before booking tickets. This allows for any unseen circumstances like his being asmoed. Hotels that have a cancellation policy of 24 hours notice can be done soon as you get the PIR date.
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Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on August 20, 2010 at 12:03am
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Congrats, Crystal. I bet you are really getting excited.
That is a great deal. How long in advance do they let you know when their PIR takes place? I will have to fly there from NM and my husband is going to drive from Maryland. Ugh!
Betsy
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Comment by Crystal-ship06-PIR9/2/10-DIV942 on August 19, 2010 at 7:44pm
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My sons PIR is 9/2...I booked my hotel reservations last night and was pleasantly surprised to get 2 rooms at "Great Lakes Motel"...the closest hotel to the base...they have a shuttle to grad...AND it was only $60 a night...not bad for an area with events and tourist attractions...I told the woman who booked my room that in MD things are just waaaaaaayy more expensive! Where is everyone else staying???
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I don't think us moms are ever ready to see them go Betsy. It sounds like he's doing all the right things to prepare himself. That really helps for the PFA if he's working out now.
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Thank you Sally & Lori.
I plan on visiting this site regularly, Lori. I am also on the NM moms site and it's pretty dead. I'm really looking to being active on here, but so far, some of the groups that I've joined just aren't that active. My hope is to make some great friends on here, We are all in this together. :)
I'm really starting to get nervous and scared about my son's soon to be date. He's had to do a lot of the workouts on his own since his Dep meetings and PT are only once a month. He's also been studying a lot, so I know he will be ready. I'm just not so sure I will ever be ready to let him go. :(
Betsy
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Betsy- welcome back! I've lived in MD since I moved here from London many moons ago. Your son's date is right around the corner isn't it? How are you processing the thought of him going?
I hope you come back to visit our site often.
Lori
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Hello ladies,
I do not currently live in Maryland, but I was born and raised in Baltimore. Our family moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1999 and then, in July of 2005, we were relocated to New Mexico by my husband's government job. Recently my husband has been relocated once again, and to our delight, it's to Washington, DC. We are currently starting the process of relocating back to Maryland. My youngest son, Adam, is a Depper here in New Mexico. He leaves for BC on October 25, 2010. By the time he finishes his PIR, we are hoping to be back in Maryland. I would love to be a part of your group and discussions. I'm looking forward to getting to know you all.
Betsy
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deemedic- I know you must be treasuring these last few days with your son. Will he be at FT. Meade for the swearing in? Will you be able to go?
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Joanne- two in the military! How long ago did your sailor son PIR? So is he on his permanent base now?
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Sorry- i get used to being on the ET/FC site! It is electronic tech. Missile tech sounds pretty neat! So you know Olney... neat! I also would love to meet another Navy mom. Is your son you're talking about your sailor?
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