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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
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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RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:
In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.
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Comment Wall
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Comment by Cheryl Proud to be Allen's Mom on February 7, 2009 at 10:56am
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Penny, I am so happy to hear that you are now getting the much awaited letter! Then to get two is really fantastic! We all totally understand the 'dance of joy' you did. I am sure we all did something like that when we got ours too. It sure does take a lot of worry off your shoulders to hear from them that they are liking it or surviving BC. God Bless!
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Just wanted to leave a request for prayer to all you N4Ms. My SIL got his orders for the Air Force. He leave on deployment on Feb 12 for Afghanistan. He is so excited to go and my daughter is taking better then me and his mother. She is so strong and positive. So is Luke! They amaze me. I am so grateful for them to have each other and being so positive about this. Even though his is in the AF and not the Navy I know all you N4Ms will be praying for him and his unit. Thank you all so much and God bless!
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Comment by Sherry James on February 4, 2009 at 5:49pm
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Hi All Interested Metro Detroit Moms,
Well, what do you guys think? Its about time that we should start connecting with the other moms/wifes/gff from our group and plan a mid March get together at Nello's Diner in Royal Oak again.
Personally I'm stretched a little too far this month to do it plus I think spring would be more agreeable for all. Let me know how you feel about March 14 or 21st.
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Comment by wendy c on February 3, 2009 at 12:10am
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Does anyone know how I or my son can get his picture & dvd from BC? His PIR was in June and he keeps saying he doesn't know where or who to ask about it. I was hoping they would just mail it to his home address but nothing so far. After PIR he went to get it and they were so busy he gave up then went back later and no one was there. And does anyone know if they get copies of their pay showing what's being deducted? Thanks for any help on either of these,Wendy
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Penny,
Hang in there! You can get through this to the other side. It will definitely be worth the pain once you see your son marching at PIR. I was so overcome at PIR seeing my son I bawled. Then at the end of the ceremony, the 'stick' (the sailor holding the flag' in front of my son almost passed out. He handed the flag to my son, who was right behind him, and marched out. Allen took over as if it was practiced and didn't even miss a beat. I was so overcome with emotion and so PROUD. When I talked to Allen after the ceremony he told me that he was so nervous but just remembered to follow the other sticks. And he made it through. Your son and you will make it through. We are all here for you too.
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I thought I was going to go out of my mind not know what was going on with my son the first week or so of BC. I am so not joking. It was the hardest thing for me to wait for the first letter or phone call from my son. Then it wasn't even a letter to me, but his father (we are divorced) to give him Allen's address @ BC. I literally went to his recruiter's office in tears because I wasn't sure what to expect and when I would be able to hear from my son. The recruiter was so sympathetic and understanding! He assured me that I would be able to get through this and that he would also be there for me if I needed anything. Once I was able to write to Allen he asked me to write EVERY day. My son, who usually is very none affectionate asked for all the letters that I could find time to write. It was the best feeling to write to him and know that he was enjoying every one of them. Just remember that you will always have all of us here to get you through this too. My son is now on his 2nd year in the Navy. I still miss him always, but know that he is where he wants to be and is so grown and mature. Being a mom NEVER stops, you just need to re-adjust.
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on January 26, 2009 at 9:16am
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I'm in GA and Jeff Foxworthy LIVES down the road from us! I have to tell ya when I tell folks here about Dairy Queen closing for the winter months they look at me like WHAT? Don't they eat ice cream year round?!
Penny, my nephew left out of Lansing but it's been a year now - didn't think my sister would survive but she made it. Stick with us...we will get you thru that PIR!
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Good morning all - yesterday was almost wonderful. We had a luncheon here in GA for the Navy moms and 17 attended and it was alot of fun and then I got home and realized...I had not heard from either our son or daughter! Daughter is four hours away at school. Son is 10 hours away at C school but both are wonderful about calling/texting. Three or four times, I said to my hubby I cannot believe I have not heard from the kids today --- well he just HAD to tell me that they both texted him that morning and then he HAD to say...and what are you going to do when he reports to the ship and ...............there went my good day! Hope all is well in MI!
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Hi MI moms - thought I'd stop by and say TGIF! Hope everyone has a great weekend and perhaps even hears from their sailors ;-D
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Goodells? Avoca? Are we talking Upper???! Did Lisa post these to the map yet ...I'm lost!
I do not Port Huron ;-D My folks used to have a house on Lake Michigan - used to love watching the yacht races.
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