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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
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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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.
Discussion Forum
Baseball Game/Military Appreciation
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Parents with SR at GL
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Ride home from Great Lakes on December 19-20, '14?
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Comment Wall
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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on November 20, 2008 at 10:03pm
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On Thanksgiving they have adopt a sailor - I didn't hear the final plans for my daughter. If one of Katie's shipmates parents do come, they were planning to adopt her, otherwise it would be with a church family.
I'm sure someone on this site has gone thru Thanksgiving and Christmas in bootacmp like your daughter will be. We are wondering if she will be able to have time off from 'A' school to be with us for Christmas....her birthday is just days before Christmas as well.
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Comment by Paulette,Rob's Mom on November 20, 2008 at 12:18pm
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Calling all thumb area moms see discussion thread above. Meet and Greet Dec 7th. See you there..Paulette
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on November 20, 2008 at 12:06pm
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NavyMomK9 - ohhhhhh, you make it reality! For lots of moms here, this will be their first Christmas without their sailor or in many cases they may get leave...this year. I was a Navy wife that lived over seas for many years and coming home to our families in Michigan just was not a feasible option. My mother always did her best to make our holidays special in spite of the difference and those sailors that were not taking leave - we always had big holiday gatherings at our house in Japan so they felt like they had a home for the holidays. Our shipmates became our families especially for the holidays.
The shoe is now on the other foot for us - our first born is a Sailor now, we will be able to treasure him this Christmas but know next year...he could be anywheres. It's not easy being Navy family - especially during the holidays.
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Ok all of you I ahve got to stop reading this at work. Bawling at my desk people think I am nuts. Rob called last night and he is able to come home for Thanksgiving. I ahven't told anyone else yet it will be a surprise. I will cherish this year as I know there will not be many in the future. Everyone have a loveing holiday.
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For my Michigan families, just want to share our good news today. We got "C" school orders today..my favorite sailor will be heading to Dahgreen, VA for the Aegis system! Anyone else have a sailor there?
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Tanya, you will always be a part of the mich group. Just remeber us when you get someplace warm. You will enjoy CT. My cousin was stationed there a long time ago and said it is very nice, and from your other post in the Groton gr you know it will be nice. What day are you leaving to go for thanksgiving? My son robert is in Groton also he will graduate BESS on Dec 5th, hope to have him home for Christmas.Safe trip
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Hey Gretchen, she could be a Sonar Tech. If so you may want to join the STG group on this site. Alot of great ST moms in there, they can answer questions for you.
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Hi Ladies, some of us have been around here long enough to remember the promotion that Build-A-Sign ran that offered a FREE banner for your sailor. They provided 10,000 of them for just the cost of shipping ($10). We were lucky to get one (maybe someday I'll get to use it!!!) but I just found out in honor of Veteran's Day they are providing 20,000 banners just for the cost of shipping. This are nicely done and can be reused over and over again depending on what message you have put on them. If you would like one, I would encourage you to order them soon as they will go quickly.
Here's the info for you...
Go to www.buildasign.com/troops and order a free banner. Excellent quality, shipping charges were about $10. I believe on their website they have them priced at $65, I should our banner to a sign maker and he said locally they are charging $100 for that size banner.
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Comment by CathieRenee on November 10, 2008 at 10:50pm
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Hi everyone, my name is Cathie and I live in the Grand Rapids area. My son, Troy, has been in the Navy 4 1/2 yrs. He is aircrew and is currently stationed in TX. He recently returned from his second deployment and was able to come home on leave for a couple of weeks. I am looking forward to learning my way around this site and talking with other MI moms.
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Hi all, Another group that I just join is tHE BLUE STAR MOTHERS. There is a chapter in St Clair that cover most of the five eastern counties, but I am sure there are other groups in the state.It is for moms of all the services and if you google it you will get the web site. They are chartered by congress and it is very interesting. We meet the first Tuesday of the month, next meeting is Dec 2nd, at the American Legion hall in St Clair at 6pm. Thats just south of Port Huron.
Jackie my son Rob is in Gronton now studing to be a submariner. Waht job does Erik have, what boat? Rob plans on being a missle tech.
Potluck sounds good.
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