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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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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 by SubMom on January 30, 2020 at 8:44pm
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Now that our son is at his new command I decided it was time to strip the bedding and get it washed. When I grabbed his blanket I got a whiff and just stopped. I ended up sitting on his bed, hugging his blanket, taking in the smell and crying like a baby. Gosh I miss my kid!
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Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on January 29, 2020 at 12:24pm
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WaterLily - always nice to have a great conversation with our kiddos! So glad you you got to talk to him again. I can just picture him relaxing with that weight off his shoulders. Onward & upward!
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Comment by WaterLily on January 24, 2020 at 10:03am
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MarianneKT's Mom, thank you! Yep, he's an Eagle Scout, played 4 yrs of varsity football, worked a couple long, physical summers for a lawn/landscape company and just generally has the grit to keep himself moving no matter what. Can you tell I'm his biggest fan, haha?!
Seabeemom, it's good I love roller coasters. Of course, the motion sickness on this one sometimes gets the best of me. I do know he'll succeed as he moves forward. Thanks for your encouraging words also!
I spoke to my sailor last night and it was such a great conversation. He was laughing and joking and sounding much more like himself. I think he's slowly coming out of the fog of stress and that makes this mama feel so much better.
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Comment by Seabeemom on January 23, 2020 at 4:39pm
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This Navy life is so full of roller coasters! Stay positive and it will all work for the good of your sailor. It is hard to see them not get what they originally thought they wanted but then to see them succeed in the next step makes it worth it!
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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on January 23, 2020 at 3:53pm
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WaterLiliy - So glad that your son is in good spirits. Hopefully he will continue to be positive and just work to the best of his ability in the new rate he is given. Sounds like he is a hard worker and I am sure that he will do well.
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The best thing is to hear that your son is in good spirits! Maybe it is a relief to him and now he can move on to something that he will be better fitted for. Keep us posted!
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SubMom & B'sNukeMoM, thank you for your positivity! That's exactly what I need right now. My husband just said he talked to our sailor and that he seemed to be in very good spirits today so that makes me happy. I am an optimist and I know all will work out. The support from you ladies is priceless to me! NMH
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And glad to see you all are warming up a bit!
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