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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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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 December 14, 2008 at 2:53pm
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Hi Lisa, thanks for the info. I look forward to the meeting this spring. I've never been to Texas in August, but lived in Oklahoma in the summer so know what you mean by that. lol
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Hello, Lisa! I see that you are from Jackson County too! Yahoo! I don't know of any other moms from my neck of the woods. I am originally from Jackson, but am currently living in Cass County. It would be great to meet you someday.
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Hi everybody! I am so happy to have found that there is a Michigan Moms group. I'm not a "new" Navy Mom. My son has been in the Navy for over 1 yr, but I am new to this website. It is so great to know that there are so many others out there who can relate to my feelings and experiences. I hope to meet and get to know lots of you. I am so proud of my son and how much he has grown and matured! I also have a son-in-law (who is more like a son to me) that has been in the Air Force for 9 years. I couldn't be prouder of them both. It is going to be really hard this Christmas though. I son isn't coming home for the first time at Christmas. I hope and pray that wherever he goes that he feels love and welcome from the family he will be spending it with. Please pray for him and me that we can get through this.
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on December 8, 2008 at 8:09am
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Yes Dawn, my nephew is the reservists and has not been able to find other work in MI since returning from A school so he is back at Busch's. He worked there for a number of years before joining the Navy. You may know him, he's the good looking kid!
Meet and Greet sounds like it was a great morning. I'm going to try to coordinate a trip back to MI and join you at one!
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Angie, you may be a blubbering idiot but it doesn't matter! When we arrived at graduation, they called our son out in the hallway so we could have a few private moments together. I absolutely gasped when I seen him and then I cried and i cried thru most of the ceremony but they were happy tears and that's just how I am..
The night before when we landed and called our son, he said...now mom, you are going to be good in the morning right???? I said...I don't think the balloons and noise makers that I'm bringing will be a problem...will they?!!! :-D
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Thank you Lisa, graduation was awesome. I just had not seen our son since his PIR eight months ago - so it was just a great trip! Yes, it was cold for us southerners, it was negative 7 degrees and it snowed a few inches yesterday but it was beautiful.
Dawn, sue is part of the site but doesn't come on like she used to. Her son is a reservist and now that he has completed his A school and is back at home, she just doesn't spend as much time on line as she used to. Do you know Bush's grocery store - my nephew works there. Sue did not make it to the meet and great as my nephew turned 21 yesterday so they had a family gathering for his b-day.
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Comment by Sherry James on December 4, 2008 at 5:48pm
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Hi Erika's mom,
Please come if at all possible. I have really enjoyed our chats and would love to meet you in person. What time is the DEP meeting? Is that in the office in Troy? Anyway, again would love to meet you so let me know even if you do not finish until after 11am you can call me. Just let me know if I should send you my cell phone number, okay?
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Wish I was in town to join you for the gathering, I am emailing my sister to let her know about the event. Her son is a Seabee and she lives in Pickney but when I talked to her on Tuesday, the snow was pretty heavy out by her house and she wasn't even sure she could get to work the next day or two. My dad lives in Belleville and it was clear by him yesterday but he was looking for snow last night too - did you get snow last night?
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Lisa, I hope we have a gentle snowfall on Christmas eve as well - nothing is prettier!!!
However it looks like I'm going to see some REAL snow this week...I'm going to Great Lakes on Thursday!!! Have not seen our favorite sailor in 8 months and he is graduating from A school on Friday!!!! Don't care how cold it is...momma is gonna be there!
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woohoo...we got snow in Atlanta today!!! Okay, so it ended before I could even put on my shoes and go out to see it but it was pretty ...for the moment or two that it lasted!
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